Hope Sasa comes back soon, Gill...
Lynn, reminds me of the time Toby tracked green paw prints all over my parquet floor...
I'd been working on a landscape painting in oils and it was getting close to lunchtime. Well, his lordship (I didn't have Pearl then) wanted his lunch, but I wanted to finish the bit I was doing. So to get my attention, he jumped up and parked himself on my paint pallette, right on top of a large blob of green oil paint!
I jumped up to grab him because the stuff is toxic, but he'd already tracked into the sitting room, leaving green prints everywhere. Just as well he didn't sit down, because his butt was bright green too!
Anyways, I managed to scoop him up and give him a bath to wash all the paint off. Needless to say he sulked the whole afternoon because he didn't quite see what all the fuss was about.
The paw prints have long gone, but it took a couple of years for them to fade...