Jack, the cat lover

 Another word that Jack recognizes and reacts to is "Kittie".  We have a cat that we've creatively named "Kittie".  She has been in our family since 2008. So when Jack hears us say "Kittie" he perks right up, ready to do some butt sniffing. 

Here she is when she was a kitten pawing at a mouse on the computer screen.

Jack loves this cat, and honestly I think the love is reciprocated. But to watch that cat interact with Jack is simply hilarious.  At first we were concerned, but now we know better.  Jack is a little over the top with his sniffing and kissing of the cat at first and she didn't like it.  But over time she's learned to tolerate it, and now I think she actually likes it, and pretends to hate it by clawing, biting, and whining.  Jack's tail is going 100 miles an hour the whole time so her clawing and biting obviously doesn't hurt him.  He seems to enjoy it immensely.

Jack is good to hang out in the front
yard with us when we do
yard work. Here the boys helped me 
prune the front bushes while
Jack just walks on by.

Sometimes he is a bit much. I'll let her out the back door and she will sprint for the tree and climb it only to have Jack chase her and not be able to climb up and after a couple minutes will go look for something else to do.  

Me and Jack hanging out on the tramp again.

Kittie is a hunter.  I've seen her with dozens of mice and birds over the years. And she will eat them completely.  Once she brought an injured mouse home and played with it on the back patio for about a half hour before putting it out of its misery and eating it whole.

Here's some video of the relatively light play Jack and the Kittie go through.  I need to capture some of the more intense bitey scratchy stuff.  It's pretty dang funny.