The Promised Kitten Update.
My little grey Nimrod is starting to hone her hunting skills on something other than the other cats. Monday she discovered spiders. Some poor dumb arachnid apparently found its way into our kitchen from the great outdoors, and Kitten, attracted by the motion of something small and black on the floor, had to investigate. Following are the results of her first foray into the world of the great felid huntress.
“Yo! What is this, how did it get here, and what is it good for?”
“This definitely requires further in-depth investigation. It’s got to be good for something. Definitely looks like a toy, absolutely like a toy, gotta be a new toy.”
“Cool! It moves when poked!”
“Yeech! Tastes lousy! Maybe if I bite down on it ….”
“OK, something is definitely wrong here. Why is it twitching like that? Don’t tell me it’s broken already!”
“Yup, it stopped moving. Must be broken. Crap, they just don’t make toys like they used to.”
A close up of the broken toy.
“OK, this is getting boring. Is there any more of these around? There’s gotta be something else to do….”
Cattitude investigates, now that Kitten has absented herself. Cattitude used to be an outside cat, and even though she’s restricted to the great indoors now, she still retains that razor-sharp hunting instinct. She knows these things are supposed to move, but this one puzzles her. “What the heck happened here?”
Kitten, seeing Cattitude’s interest, returns to the scene of the crime. “Maybe it just needs to be whacked around a bit to restore some energy to it.”
“Geez guy, do something! This is getting old fast!”
Cattitude has long since realized that this particular creature isn’t going to be much of a challenge to stalk from here on out. The disdain on her face as she watches Kitten says it all. “I can’t believe she’s still goofing around with that thing. Either eat it or find something else to do, OK kid?”
