{"id":3184,"date":"2007-09-10T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/09\/10\/comic-of-the-day-35\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T09:42:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T13:42:45","slug":"comic-of-the-day-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/09\/10\/comic-of-the-day-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This has become a regular point of contention between the Dowbrigade and his main feline spiritual advisor, Chiqui. Rather than walk on our face (always a risky proposition) Chiqui sits calmly and prudently a few inches to one side and gently paws somewhere in the nose-mouth region. What he means is A) fix my breakfast (he manages to survive on a protean diet of Sensitive Systems hi-tech dry food and boiled chicken breast B) scratch me, and C) don’t you have to be somewhere so I can have the bed to myself the rest of the day?<\/p>\n

We have become used to this routine,and occasionally are able to perform our duties in a sufficiently somnambulistic manner to return to dreamland for a few precious minutes afterward. However, lately we have noticed a perturbing precision in Chiqui’s wakeup calls which have us wondering about collusion and outside agendas. Turns out Chiqui has been awakening me at precisely<\/em> sunrise.<\/p>\n

For example, today, according to the Boston Globe, the sun rose at precisely 6:21. Sure enough, at Chiqui’s first touch I looked at the clock, and it read 6:21. Yesterday, it was exactly 6:17, and the day before 6:14. Obviously, this is good news going into the Fall, as eventually we will be allowed to sleep past 7. But it is precisely the precision which has us wondering.<\/p>\n

Has Chiqui learned to read the clock, and the Globe? Does he have some feline, or human, co-conspirator giving him cues? Does he have an internal clock even more precise than his master’s (we have never owned an alarm clock, and have never missed a plane)?<\/p>\n

We are thinking of installing “Kitty Cams” to find out what he really does all day while we are at work…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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