Purred: Mon Apr 2, '07 7:30am PST |
 |  |  |  | As The World Purrs Episode 43
Our collection of gifts for Auntie have been accumulating on her bed. A couple of dead lizards, a few chewed up feathers, a knotted piece of string and a few catnip mousies, make up our offering to who ever took our Auntie. Our goal is to ransom her back. Spice has been coordinating the collection and seems to be handling the job nicely. Pumpkin is good at bringing in lizards, but the problem is they keep running away. No matter how many times we keep telling him that he has to kill the darn things before he puts them on the bed, he still forgets. Sugar thinks it’s because he wants to play with them and playing with dead lizards is just no fun at all! Mommy keeps telling us to cool it, that Auntie will be home soon and she will probably not be too pleased with the catly treasures that are mounding on her bed. Now, why wouldn’t a human like such wonderful treasures? This was how our week was building when the unthinkable happened. Sugar passed away! The only warning Mommy and Daddy had was 4 days ago when she collapsed in the back yard. The emergency vet said that there was a large mass in her lungs and that she needed to see her regular Dr. as soon as possible. Our vet was very sad to tell Mommy and Daddy that Sugar had cancer. They had been so careful to treat her diabetes and she had appeared so healthy that the cancer went undetected. Mommy and Daddy let Sugar lay in state in her little coffin in the living room for most of February 14th before burying her under the crape myrtle in the backyard. All of us cats paid our respects and said goodbye to our sweet Sugar. It was a very sad day. The next day Auntie came home. We suppose our offering on her bed appeased the Auntie-nappers and they released her. Many times we cats forget that we share our home with 3 humans, or at least 2 humans and Auntie. We’re still not sure about her! There are good times and bad times but for the most part we all get along just fine. During this crisis we’ve been very good, well, mostly good. There was the incident during the tornado that tore through Central Florida. Mommy didn’t tell Auntie about it right away because she didn’t want to upset her. Some how, at around 3:00 am on that morning, someone broke one of Mommy’s ceramic cats. Normally when accidents happen, Auntie just glues it back together, but this time, there was no saving it! The ceramic cat hit the stone floor like an explosion! The sound was so loud, Mommy thought an airplane crashed in the front yard. She jumped out of bed and wandered around the house looking for the source of the noise. Fortunately she saw the shattered glass and didn’t cut herself. Daddy had just left for work, so it was just Mommy and us. In spite of all the noise, the house was empty. Kind of eerie. As for us cats, we were all hiding under Mommy and Daddy’s bed. The noise and shattering glass were too much even for the bravest of us. There was also the macaroni incident. Mommy left the pantry door open and Thistle decided to explore. She knocked a large 2lb box of macaroni elbows off the shelf and the box split open, spilling it’s contents all over the floor. The rest of us cats were delighted! We scooted and chased macaroni noodles all over the kitchen and through out the hall. When Mommy got up in the morning, she had to crunch and slide her way to the broom closet! Ginger and Rascal tried to help with the clean up by batting the funny little crunchy things right and left. “Will you stop! You guys are just making it worse!” Mommy hadn’t had her morning cup of coffee yet, so she was really grouchy. This just makes it even more amusing to us cats! So that morning was a “grouch” sweep “grouch” sweep, chase the cats “grouch” and more “grouch”! Even on our best behavior, we are a little much on our humans and home. We are the masters of our universe but, unfortunately we are also the masters of catly destruction and we are purringly proud of it! |  |  |  |  |
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