Patience

I've got this scridgy little mouse thingie that used to belong to Raj. Once I get my jaws clamped around it, I suck and suck and suck on it, and go to a different place entirely. I'm in my own little world, and when I can sit on HER lap at the same time - well, it's absolute heaven.

I don't think Ernie really appreciated that SHE and ME were communicating at a very deep level, and he (as in Ernie) got very impatient. And do you know what he did? He put both paws on HER arm (she was sitting on the floor at the time) and BARKED in her face. Yes, he did. How about that!

It made us both jump I can tell you. Then SHE laughed, and gave him a chin and ear scritch.

I wouldn't have.