Fine, fine…i go sit down in the corner now, hmph….

Himz wunna doz kiddos u tawk tu an sez, ‘Howdya get so smrt?’ an himz sez, ‘ I don’t know – I guess I was just born this way’ wif a verry strate fayce and tone…. himz de BES straight guy! He hez wicked send ob hyomor (lubbbs dis site!!), but den, sum silleh fings go rite obber himz hed! (part of the Aspergers – misses social cues) punz, sarcasm – I haz tu ‘splain lawts tu him… but datz part uv whut maykes him so funneh!

An, himz wif oar kittehs? Das wehn himz happeh-est…. when himz kuddel and shmooz wif a kitteh…. oar a goggie….. oar a birdie…. or mayk-bleve dragons an dinosoors…. anyfing udder dan peeples or flying buggels!

i lookt at yer sight an red sum ob yore poasts–is nice too git 2 no yew!

11 yo is mai AS boi…. whata trip! He’s mai own built-in straight man! Such a literal boi! He lubbbbs our kittehs soo mush…. lubbs all aminals, reely…. mai verry mos faboritists pitchur ebber is when he wuz ’bout 3 and him mommahkitteh wuz nappin wif him…. berry, berry sweet! She is his ‘service aminal’ at home: himz upset, she jes appears outta nowhere and sits necks tu himz…. he petts her an feel better… she sits awn his lap when he iz doin hims homewurk, tu – teh weight helps him to focus a bit better….. shes a superawesumwunder kitteh, tu mii!

Teh mos awesum, doh, is dat she nebber EBBER cumplains: himz also OCD and ‘picks’…. and will pick her fur (haz ebben picked her wiskars!!!) – an she nebber wunce mayd a peep or mew ’bout it – she lubbs him, fur shur, moar dan her own lyfe, ai know.

Callista and Kitkay – thanks for the review and reccomendashun! We’ll run owt and git it today, ai finks….

Your son will probably enjoy Grandin’s book. The tone of the book is rather casual, which seems a little odd to me, for a scholar, but it makes me laugh sometimes because she is obviously immensely brilliant in her field. ( Mind you I am a VERY picky reader/writer). And Grandin’s first language is not LANGUAGE; she has a co-author who understands her work, and thus much of the style results from this co-author.

I think you are right, Calista, in that Grandin’s expertise is many with livestock–especially cattle–her favorite animals. She writes about other animals such as dogs and cats, but she often relates antecdotes friends tell her about their pets, and she uses these to help her reason about and understand that species/breed. Such as in the case of the cats who can’t not chase the laser. She will admit that she is not an expert at these particular animals, but, I must add, she has some amazing insights about genetics/breeding in animals, including Labrador Retrievers–very interesting. (I have a Labby).

So it seems to me that you guys have some pretty smart cats, and lucky ones, too since they have empathic owners. But I still enjoyed Zutto’s story about the cat and the shower curtain!

Him haz berry sof heart, tu……. well, exsept fur teh flying buggles…. him skert ov dem! Himz been nown tu tak rolypolyz owt uv teh baftub an tayk dem owtsyde!

grate grandaddeh wuz farmer. wun nite dare wuz kommosh- comots- *sigh* NOIZE comin from chikken koop. so grate grandaddeh runned 2 da winder an frow open da sash (yep, like nite b4 chrissmiss) an luk owt. goggeh came from beehine an stukk cold nosey up grate grandaddeh nite shurt. grate grandaddeh hed hit da bottom of winder, and big hevvy winder falled on him an he were catched in da winder, arms owtside, legs inside an hollerin 4 grate gramma 2 halps him.

she wuz laffin… cudden halps… leestways nawt rite away…

i finks so menny fings happent wif da chikkens. grate grandaddeh also sat on a chikken in da owthowse. dint see da chikken. guess chikken were cornfuze an went in enny open dore…

Snakez ar nawt bad either. As long as yoo know taht they doo nawt bite!

taht suppoeded to be WERKZ fur me..

*sigh*

mi belobbed kitteh Jack (teh wun eeyd bandit hoo stoleded mi hart awai) waz deffly allerjic to flee bites …….but ebbery noaw an den he wood escspes owt teh front dor..

he waaz the whyte floofy kitteh…an he wood RUN to teh dirt unner teh reddywood tree,
an ROLLL arond til teh onli whyte fing awn himz waz a liddle whyte spot awn hiz faze….

an den wood STRUT into teh howse sayin “yesh !!!! ai is a FILTHY beest!!!”

he waz sooo proud.!!!

an den ai wood habb to takez him to teh kitteh washerz…..*sigh*

oh my, did he hab to fun doin taht tho…..

mi Mommeh tagt me…..iz “teh Ostrij Theory” awl u do iz stik ur hed ina neerby pile ob sand …..

erksz fur me !!!!

IBK…ai jest a liddle jellus…u at leest gotz a hard hed….ai been gonin fro life wiff an sowft hart ana sowft hed…..silleh but troo…..iz berry hard…..

an Janet ……..

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weerd how dose fingz haunt u huh????

dis gonna sound pretti silleh ( iz mi middle naem) ……but jest last week, affer teh ranye…ai sawed a lidle wormy guy awn teh sidewalk……noj lik wormy guys (oar sluggies oar snails oar SNAKES) but ai feeled bad fur days dat ai coodn’t (eeeewwwwww) pik himz up an poutz him bak ina grasssess……

ai fink ai’ll carriy teh liddle rubbery glubes naow so ai dont hab to walkies awai animoar…..

but it WAZ full ob teh awe a winsum…….

dese ar der funne peepulz round heer..

shood maekz a bookz oauwt ob teh funniestest partz but wood need 10p putez werkin simo…simul….cimol….at teh saem time……an dey had bedder be fastest wuns tooo.

Ai knows ebereebuddee heer luvs the animalz verree mutch – so we haz awl goan throo thingz liek this. Yoo know, in mai bible (A Christmas Carol), Hell is basicallee depicted as seeing peepl (and bai extenshun, animals) in need an nawt being able to do it – halp them. Taht iz Marley’s cruel fate. An so it iz – awl those times we cud nawt help. . .

but ai laffeded oawt loud awn taht storrii

Janet, ai fink yu’z berry kind tu menny animulz an peepz. yur stoary remynd me ub wun ub teh moast byootiful poems ebber ritten. in witch a farmer borked a mowsie’s nest bai misstaek jus befoar winter:
http://www.robertburns.org/works/75.shtml

*tayks bow*

bof rite!!