Angel and Chuck are not fans of noise. They dislike the airbrakes on trucks and rattly metal ladders on work vans as they drive down our street. Thunderstorms, fireworks or dropping a pan in the kitchen will send them flying through the house to their special hidey holes.
The Hubby, who
loves coffee, takes his bean grinder into the other room, shuts the door and does the grinding as quietly as he can, so the noise does not disturb the cats. Isn't that just the sweetest thing? He will also say out loud, "Making some noise!" if he's doing something in the kitchen that might make the cats (or me!) jump.
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| "Quiet, humans!" |
Now, conversely, the cats are NOT quiet when they feel that their humans aren't paying enough attention to them, like early morning when we've been quiet for SO LONG...all night, for gosh sakes! Angel has her personal song and dance routine, that gears up before our normal alarm time, as she sings the song of her people AND does a cute prowl action to encourage human activity.
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| "Stop being so quiet, humans!" |
And there is no such thing as quiet when I am carrying food bowls laden with stinky goodness, to be set down for the cats. Meow MEOW merrow...until I set the bowls down and THEN quiet descends again, only punctuated by cat gobbling/smacky noises.