Chicken's Corner*
Every once in a while, we receive a message from someone going something like this:
Hi Wonder Pens! I'm from (Montreal/Denmark/somewhere far away) and I'm so excited to visit your shop! I've been following your (blog/instagram/social media)for ___ years, and I can't wait to see all the beautiful (inks/fountain pens/Japanese leather). I just want to know, will Chicken be there when I come?Aside from my hurt feelings that no one wants to see me, the answer to this question is, alas, Chicken has a mind of his own. You can all Super, and 100% of the time, he will come, and you can tell him to go in the apartment or the bathroom or the warehouse and he will go. You can call Chicken, offering food and making affectionate noises, wander throughout the shop and warehouse, looking under cardboard boxes and behind notebooks, and he will completely ignore you, probably watching you and not evening deigning to laugh. You will find him 4 hours later, casually licking himself behind the Traveler's Notebooks. Chicken, who is far and away the least friendly creature here, is definitely the most popular. He is the most photographed, most requested, and more adored thing we have in the shop. In any case, I thought it might be time for an update on our little prince. He continues on, exactly as before. He's gotten a little bigger since our last update, when he was a year old. Chicken is not a "large" cat as far as cats go, but now that he's an adult-sized cat, he has become slightly more disruptive. Interesting things that he does:
- He is very stripey
- His tail has a personality of his own. It's particularly interesting when you can sense his tail is antagonizing him.
- Walking/sauntering along the organized ink cartridges, sending them all just slightly askew.
- Leaping onto tables in the shop and sliding across the notebooks, spilling them onto the floor.
- Napping on top of the fridge and then leaping down in front of you as you're just trying to get some apple juice.
- Meowing from on top of the fridge on the days he decides it's too high to leap off of.
- Climbing on top of your laptop and pressing all the keys.
- Sleeping on top of the blankets at night, and then randomly awakening to bite your toes at 3 am.
- Jumping onto the kitchen counter and attempting to eat food.**
- Attacking the curtains.
- Jumping up on our slightly wobbly sample table when someone is making samples. There's only been one real disaster, but even one or two knocked over samples is a real pain.
Comments
Julia (the one in BC) said:
This is unbelievably endearing.
Nadine said:
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I love this. Thank you Very much.
wonderpens said:
He is the most entertaining of us all here :D
kris said:
Mistaking the toy for your cat reminds me of this story when my aunt stayed over once at our house.
Our cat has a luscious grey-coloured coat with a white chest (like Chicken!).
One night I heard my aunt scream in the kitchen so I ran as fast as an ambulance and asked her what was wrong. She then calmly replied, “Sorry, I mistook your fat cat for a gigantic rat.”
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Kevin said:
Montreal is so so so so far away from Toronto! I wish Canada had high speed railways like China so I can go to Toronto every weekend…
Could you try creating a database that can predict the likelihood of meeting Chicken for any given day :p
Azizah Asgarali said:
My favorite blog posts are the Chicken posts! He is, without a doubt, one of the coolest cats (no pun intended) in the pen world. Thank you for sharing him and these hilarious insights!
Cecily said:
Gosh, I love this cat.
wonderpens said:
He is a sweetheart!
Eve said:
Yay! Chicken!! :)
I have never visited the shop but being a die-hard cat person, every bit of Chicken lights up my day like a thousand daylight bulb. You guys are pretty awesome as well, but you’re still not a ginger tabby with a typical-cat mind of its own ;) Thanks for this update on the smallest (?) staffer at Wonderpens ;)