Furnace trouble? No!

This morning I lowered myself into the bathtub and relaxed. Meanwhile,
Emily our grey mischief-maker jumped down from the sink cabinet and
stretched out on the bathmat on the floor. She looked at me, struck a
cute pose, and meowed loudly. This called for a reply. I told her she
was a glorious cat, a beautiful cat, a world-class cat. Satisfied, she

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Oh, I like those compliments, I'll have to try them on my bunch.

meowed agreement and closed her eyes. A minute later while lying in the
tub I heard a strange, irregular rumble, rising and falling. We have a
noisy furnace (actually it's a boiler - we have hot water radiators),
and I worried that it was giving trouble. Then I located the rumble's
source. It was Emily's purrs at all my flattery, amplified by the
hard-surfaced bathroom walls! Repair money saved, a contented cat - the

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LOL - you should hear Licky when I pet him in the bathtub. He has a
loud purr to begin with, but with nothing around him but hard porcelain,
he sounds like a chain saw!

morning had started well.
For Emily in her element - the bathroom - see this page of Flippy's
great web site:

mlbriggs...

Years ago, a neighbor had a female Himalayan cat named PoPo. I tended
PoPo whenever her meowmie left town. PoPo had the loudest purr I have
ever heard from a cat. It was, indeed, a rumble. She is now rumbling at
the Rainbow Bridge. MLB

mlbriggs...

"Cleanliness is next to godliness" TuTu

Karen...

apparently she just needed some affirmation :D

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Gorgeous! Is she a Russian Blue, or partly?

Bobcat...

She thinks she is!
Bobcat

Christina Websell...

She's certainly a very pretty girl!