My human will never let me eat his pet hamster, and I am at peace with that.
I will not slurp fish food from the surface of the aquarium.
I will not eat large numbers of assorted bugs, then come home and throw them up so the humans can see that I’m getting plenty of roughage.
I will not use the bathtub to store live mice for late-night snacks.
We will not play “Herd of Thundering Wildebeests Stampeding Across the Plains of the Serengeti” over any humans’ bed while they’re trying to sleep.
I cannot leap through closed windows to catch birds outside. If I forget this and bonk my head on the window and fall behind the couch in my attempt, I will not get up and do the same thing again.
I will not assume the patio door is open when I want to race outside to chase leaves.
I will not stick my paw into any container to see if there is something in it. If I do, I will not hiss and scratch when my human has to shave me to get the rubber cement out of my fur.
If I bite the cactus, it will bite back.
When it rains, it will be raining on all sides of the house.
It is not necessary to check every door.
I will not play “Dead Cat on the Stairs” while people are trying to bring in groceries or laundry, or one of these days, it will really come true.
When the humans play darts, I will not leap into the air and attempt to catch them.
I will not swat my human’s head repeatedly when he or she is on the family room floor trying to do sit ups.
When my human is typing at the computer, his forearms are *not* a hammock.
Computer and TV screens do not exist to backlight my lovely tail.
I will not stand on the bathroom counter, stare down the hall, and growl at nothing after my human has watched “The Walking Dead.”
I will not drag dirty socks onto the bed at night and then yell at the top of my lungs so my humans can admire my kill.
I will not perch on my human’s chest in the middle of the night and stare until he or she wakes.
I will not walk on the key board when my human is writing important adagfsg gdjag ;ln.
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