CAT TALES – Kits, Kats, Sacks, and Lives

Living with my cats is an adventure.

One cat is warm and cozy.

Two cats are a rollicking, frolicking comedy show.

Two cats and a dog are a circus (but that’s another story, this one is about the cats). My two cats are as different as night and day.

Beebe is a black and white tuxedo cat. Beebe has put on weight. He is fat.

In fact, he is very fat.

He has been with me since he was a kitten, rescued from a garbage pail where he had been left to die.

At least that was the story they told me when I adopted him.

Beebe adores me; if he isn’t on my lap, he lays on my feet.

If my feet aren’t available, he lays on my shoes.

It is difficult to move around once his huge fluffy body is planted on your feet.

It is downright uncomfortable.

I have been tempted to look up a cat psychiatrist to check into the origins of this foot fetish.

A so-called friend of mine suggested that my stinky feet reminded him of the stinky garbage pail he had been dumped into.

I said I didn't think he would want to relive such a traumatic event, but she said it was the only babyhood he could remember, and he had been rescued.

With my stinky feet being the possible culprit for this fetish, I didn't think I wanted any cat doctor delving into it so I abandoned that idea.

I did begin dousing my feet and shoes with deodorant foot powder; it didn't solve the problem, but it sure made Beebe sneeze.

Beebe is a lazy cat.

He has made a career of eating and sleeping.

We lived a calm, quiet life until I brought Momau, a formerly feral cat, home to live with us.

Beebe's life was no longer ruled by his own laziness.

Momau is as different from Beebe as night is from day.

Mamou is tiny. Beebe is huge.

Beebe is long-haired. Momau is short-haired.

Beebe wears his black and white tuxedo suit and looks like a senior diplomat. Momau is bright orange and looks like an unkempt go-go dancer.

Beebe is laid back. Momau is like the Energizer Bunny; she doesn't walk, instead she prances, climbs, dangles from the mantle, rolls around the supports on the coffee table, and hangs from the curtains.

She hides under the sofa and jumps out at anyone walking by - usually Beebe.

The two of them wrestle and Beebe bites Momau.

That same friend, of the stinky feet quote, says those are affectionate bites, but with his ears laid back and his lips curled, Beebe certainly doesn't look affectionate.

I try to intervene, but by the time I find my disciplinary squirt gun, Momau is grooming Beebe.

Are they enemies or friends?

I just don't know.

Momau does not adore me. She thinks of me as a giant toy. She climbs on me, snags my clothing, tangles my hair, bats my earrings, and sniffs my mouth to see if I've eaten something I should have shared with her.

Her only interest in my feet is getting between them and causing me many a near fall, and her only interest in my shoes is playing with the shoestrings.

They do have one thing in common…drop a paper sack on the floor and they will play together until the sack is shredded into complete destruction.

Sometimes one is on top, one inside, sometimes both inside (quite a feat considering Beebe's girth), sometimes both outside just pummeling the bag and each other.

Life changed completely for Momau when I brought her home and turned her from a feral cat into a domestic cat.

Life changed completely for Beebe when he was no longer an only cat.

Life changed completely for me having two crazy, completely different cats to deal with.

I think kits, kats, sacks and lives were all changed - for the better...

More later, Judy and the cats

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