Trying to recover from a 24 hour bug and the house is pretty cold. It hailed this morning in July! I didn’t want to turn on the heater, so I put my powder blue Nike sweatshirt on for more warmth.
McGuire jumps on my lap and turns around. He suddenly stops- backs up and almost falls off my lap. Then he turned into a hairpin spitting and hissing and staring at my chest.
I watched him for a few minutes as he attempted to dance around my lap (not that much room) He never broke his stare at my shirt. I thought I had a spider on me (I hate spiders) so I was a bit freaked out at his behavior. But when I looked down, I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.
This spitting and hissing kept up and finally it dawned on me. He was spitting at the check mark on my sweatshirt. The Nike logo.
To test my theory, I pulled the shirt forward right where the mark was and sure enough, he spit and hissed and leaped off my lap. LOL
He returned seconds later claws out ready to do battle and lunged! I was quicker and managed to scoot sideways and avoid being bit. Silly kitty. He kept up the war of the Nike mark until I covered myself up with a blanket and then he curled up and went to sleep. Mike looked at me and laughed and said it was a shame we didn’t have a video camera.
Scary stuff, this Nike trademark.
LOL!! Wonder what triggered that reaction really.. but so strange!
Hope you feel better soon Mary-Ann
That’s very odd. I’ve not heard of corporate logos causing trouble for cats – plenty of human problems over big corporations, but not cats. They appear even more discerning than we thought. See which he prefers: Coke or Pepsi.
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