Cats

Weird happenings in the neighborhood. On our morning walk, we started down the street. In the distance, I saw four cats. Three of them were slowly approaching an oblivious fourth cat. They stopped and backed off when they saw us coming down the street. The fourth cat owes us something for that unintentional rescue.

I thought it was pretty cute and moved along in my thoughts. We turned the next corner and saw two more cats. There was also a hummingbird making its little bird noise and a baby squirrel chasing its tail. I started to think things were becoming a little bizarre. I thought to myself that things would be really weird if we saw more cats when we turned the next corner. Guess what? Three more cats on the next stretch. What the hell?

- Some of the cats just walked away in their cool cat-like strut. Others just hunkered down in the grass and thought they were being super cool and hidden - "look at me, I am a cat that no one can see except I am a cat so people can see me in this really short grass" and others just sat and stared at us. I admit the staring cats kinda creeped me out.

- They were all pretty cute with the exception of the staring cats. I am sure they were doing hand signals and hiding their pocket knives.

- The true question has to be what are these cats doing on a Sunday morning? Is it a community potluck? Organizing event against the dogs? Religious gathering? Book club? Meow chorale gathering? Maybe they are organizing against the Spiders? Local? National?

- Do the parents of the kittens approve of their little ones sneaking out and crossing streets? What does this say about cat family values?

- Elston? Did not notice a single one. Not a single cat. How will I ever get her to notice a Spider if she doesn't notice a cat giving her death stares???

- Do you know where your cats are between 7-7:30 on a Sunday morning?