When Belle the Devil Cat is really trying to avoid Cubby (which is much of the time, due to his desire to "feep!"--flip--her*), she scuttles under the Awesome Subaru.
I know you're under there, Belle . . .
He tried a couple of times to crawl under there with her. Then he got stuck and didn't enjoy the process of being hauled out. Also, I have taken great pains to point out the pipes ("pup!) under the car and explain how they can be hot after the car has been driven ("ha?"). So he doesn't crawl under the car anymore and Belle is safe.
But only as long as he gets distracted by something else before she decides to come out. But if he's still there monitoring her movements when she tries to escape? Then the chase is on.
Don't worry; Belle always wins.
* I must admit, however, that even the times when Cubby has eluded me and caught up with her and grabbed handfuls of her fur or done something else to cause her pain and him a no-doubt deserved clawing, she's done nothing more than meow loudly and run away at the first opportunity. It turns out that, to everyone's surprise, the Devil Cat is good with children. Okay. I guess we'll keep her.
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She's just biding her time.
When my daughter was about Cubby's age, she used to chase our cats around the house making this little trilling noise with her tongue that sounded like purring. Very quickly, the cats learned to recognize that noise and scattered when they heard it. One of the cats learned to jump into her playpen because he was safe in there when she wasn't in it.
Animals can be surprising. We had a rabbit who didn't like men at all. This little adorable bunny loved me and loved La Petite, but wouldn't let Chuck touch him.
We suspect abuse prior to our bringing bunny home. Eventually, Peanut the Bunny came around.
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