Morgans wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote

What a hoot!! I think the dog lived for 15 years. He never once let me
down!

And you don't even want to know about the cat and the can opener :-))

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Damn, I hate that. Say something like the above statement, and expect that
nobody will ask?

Of course not! Like you said, for locking eyes with the dog. It's human
nature to ask about it, when you tell us NOT to ask.

But you knew that someone would want to know about the cat and the can!
(and 'prolly knew it would be me to ask first! g)

So, spill it, already! GGG

Well......first of all, you need to own a cat (actually an oxymoron).
Then you have to be at a party with friends that will be attending a
party of your own in about a week's time.
You plant the seed by calmly interjecting into the conversation at some
point that you have the smartest cat in the entire world; a cat who is
SO smart he uses a can opener to open his own cat food each day.

Naturally there is laughter and disbelief at this announcement. You just
let it ride and say little more about it.

Now comes the good part. The day of your own party to be attended by the
same people at the last one where you mentioned the cat, you attach a
can opener to the wall about 3 inches from the floor in the room next to
the one the party will be in and stack 3 cans of cat food next to it.
The people arrive and the fun starts when people begin to wander around
notice the can opener and cat food and begin to remember vaguely what
you had said about the cat.

If you're really lucky, the party can go quite a while with people not
actually wanting to be the first ask to see the cat do the opening and
it's a real hoot watching people meander into the other room every two
minutes or so just in case they might be missing the cat opening the
food with the opener. Where it REALLY gets funny is when and if the cat
actually walks into the other room. I've actually seen the cat start a
fair sized stampede following him when this happened :-)
Finally after everybody has been totally convinced that the cat CAN
actually open the food this way, you give in and tell them it was a gag.
Then RUN!! :-)
You can only do this once with the same gang, but it's great fun.

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Dudley Henriques