I Didn't See Nothing

BELLA'S BITS:

I was relaxing by my usual spot in the living room when there was a sudden flurry of huff coming out of the kitchen. It was brat baby Getty cursing at mom again, and mom was right behind her. It was quite startling cause baby-Getty is always making a scene and she tries to tell us all that mom is to be feared. But we know better and then we try to convince her back that she's got it all wrong; that baby brat is so stubborn, I have to put her in her place sometimes, especially when I see her hissing at mom. Well, this time I'm not sure what happened.. All I know and saw was baby brat hissing and huffing as she stalked off the kitchen. Startled, my tail bushed out a little, my eyes got real big as I stared at this scene. I didn't know what to do exactly when mom stood and looked back at me - in that awkward moment, I decided it was best to .. just flick my head the other way.

I didn't see nuttin. I look the other way.

The Belly Rule

BELLA'S BITS:


Mom pissed me off again this morning. I had just shown up upstairs to greet her, even Googie ushering me in with respect - and I didn't get any ! She .....violated my belly rule, AGAIN ! She touched my sides and back too much and right up to that point I was even purring! Well, I just straightened myself up from my air-butt position and stalked off angry and kept going downstairs too.

[ She loves to get petted but apparently in a very specific way: Only from head down to neck and middle of her back on down to tail. And then she'll purr and stick her butt up in the air. And just as suddenly, the mood changes if my hand goes to her belly sides or upper back legs :) ]

Rules Of The House

PRINCESS:

I let little Getty go explore up in mom's room while mom was unsuspecting and 'downstairs'. We all went up there and ushered her, Googie and Bella were up there too. Mom had left the bathroom door open so little Getty was getting really curious.

Well, I stood guard and explained to her that we don't disturb her personal things. That she's never liked me jumping on the counter in there, and we certainly do not, never ever, touch her other things in the bedroom, those little thingies all over that big ..uhm square thing she calls "dresser". I believe the thingies are "jewelry".. yeah, we never touch those and little Getty knows it.

So mom came up in the middle of my tutelage, as Getty stood next to me outside mom's bathroom door.

"Well, I better get outta here now, Pipi", and at that, she briskly left the room.

That's a No-No

BELLA'S BITS:

I did not know what was coming tonite until the last minute. Here I was, coralling mom toward the place where she gets the 'nummy num', eager to be petted along the way - and then I hear: "oh nooo... no nummy-num, tonite honey, you're getting too big" Soon as I heard those words I low-growled in disgust and jerked my head away. She tried to pet me again but I got even angrier and trotted further away, growling and meowing to myself and to her ...

What do you MEAN "no nummy num?!!".. She led me to the dry food bowl with her finger.. Soon as she puts it in front of my face, I start to follow, you see.. So I took a few bites, yeah okay.

"GOW!! "

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

"GOW!!! I'm down here by my lonesome, realizing that eveybody's gone upstairs to be with that mom lady! And I'm feeling all alone and crying out loud! And then I decided to stat kicking around the ringing ball. Take that! and that! ding, ding, ding, ding!!!!

[Princess, upon hearing her cry, woke up from her snooze and went downstairs to keep her company.]

Rules of the House

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

I have been told by daddy Googie and miss Pipi dat if I'm gonna take over mom lady's bed, not to expect to have it all day ... Dat she has a right to it to come back and use it. They tried to explain it to me not to get upset and get all flat-eared about it. So I've given up taking over her bed now, altogether.. She keeps coming up in the middle of my sleep ...

[the little troll hasn't plopped all over my bed for a few weeks now.. Except if they're there with me. ]

That Word!!

LITTLE GETTY:

I went up to the food bowls to join daddy-Googie and I started chomping my 'nummy-num'. When daddy started to walk away. I sensed something, mighta heard a hiss, but paid no mind to it and kept eating. Next thing I know, mom lady starts to say: "no fighting!"

Well that did it - I abandoned my feast and started to trott outta the kitchen quickly. On my way out, I almost ran into the 'fight' itself: daddy Googie hovering over miss Bella who was laying down. I kept going, ran back under my dining table sanctuary.

Standing Guard..

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

As much as I may still be weary and skittish with mom lady, when she comes home I stand there watching her walk by closer and closer to me. I haven't seen her all day and so.. I need to check her out and look up at her closely.. So I stand there, I don't scurry off - even if she passes me by within a few inches.

I will even lean over to do the "kiss kiss" to her finger sometimes..

Keeping Companeh

GOOGIE'S GREEETS:

Ah insist awn keeping mom companeh when she done goes and duzzz her beesiness...

Stuck In No-Cat's Land

BELLA:

This morning mom served us breakfast and I was more than eager to dive my face into that pink bowl. But Googie insisted... So I had to walk away and I then turned my sights to the blue bowl across the room.. But Pipi was already there.. and I didn't want to nudge her away. So I quickly turned away from there and got stuck in the middle... Not knowing what to do.. I looked at mom confused..

Pipi walked away then and yielded the bowl. Bella is growing sensitive now with cattiquette... :))

First in Line

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD: FIRST OFF!

I was the first one this morning to greet mom lady. I climbed up the stairs and stood by there, meowing at her. She noticed. She came closer and talked to me, and wondered where the others were. "Mewoooww", I told her. She stuck her head toward the "downstairs' to see them.. Daddy-Googie and miss Bella have been lounging side by side. They thought that I should go up as they waited down there.

Well - I did it. I talked to mom lady, and now I was ready to high tail it back down, it was close enough.

Slow-Burn Rage

We're all kinda sitting here watching miss Bella go in a slow-burn rage. At mom. And dis eez the kinda tame that AH wouldn't want to be in her way, if you get mah meaning. Yaw see, miss Bella duzzn't want her belly touched.. And mom just duzzn't git it. She keeps petting Bella the wrong way and Bella's in a rage even though mom is hardly touching her belly. And Ah'm sitting there on the floor from afar, watching this crazy scene.

Dis eez one tame Ah ain't gonna go eentervene... get mah balls cut off in the process, whatevah Ah got left anyway. Miss Bella got so mad, she done run downstairs and then mom's been going around saying "I'm sorry!" over and over again trying to placate dat beatch.

The Galloping Cat

BELLA'S BITS:

That ridiculous fluffball musta had a stick up his butt cause he had to run around all over the place for a good while.. He kept rushing me up to the last moment and I just couldn't take it - but I wouldn't flee either. It was SO annoying.. He was so obnoxious, he had mom staring at him too... That fluffball actually .. galloped across one end of the house to the other.. And he rushed me again.. And then mom tried to make me feel better and she said "He's just trying to play with you honey...". "Meeerrrr!", I said back.. "He's a GOOF!".. Even Pipi didn't bother to come between us this time, she knows... She knows how ...mindless he can get.

He finally settled down on the coffeetable and I got my peace and quiet back still on my spot.

Dead Flowers Need To Go

Mom just came home and she noticed I'd thrown the flowers off the table.. They were stinking and this was the only way to send a message. I was standing by the railing next to the table. So she gets all pissed off and cleans up and throws the flowers away - finally. And then I come back and stand by the kitchen, and Getty is stooping behind me.

Now I'm being berated in front of Getty, mom waving her finger in front of my nose, using the "f" bomb..She said I was 'f--d up' and not to take after me, there'll be no jumping at that table and throwing flowers. I was about to nose tip her finger when I heard the "F" bomb.. how I was being characterized.. And I swiftly turned my head away, waiting for this ugliness to pass. She extended her finger to me one more time and I forgave her.

I just hope Getty doesn't get the wrong idea.. She was staring at this scene the whole time..

Oh No! Not THAT Word!

PRINCESS PRICELESS: WHAT JUST HAPPENED HERE? ..

I had issues with miss Bella tonite .. or rather, she had issues with ME, cause she chased me all over the room. Mom finally jumped in and told her to stop it and then carried me back to my dinner bowl to finish up. Antsy, I just wanted to get back to the battlefield. So I trotted out of the kitchen to see what Bella was doing.. She was just ahead of me there by the steps to "upstairs" and I'm walking toward her but then mom says something behind me. I am not familiar with that phrase to tell you the truth.. But Bella was. Bella just heard mom say it and she let out a growl and fled up the steps .

I was left to wonder right there on her spot all by myself, my ears flipping back and forth and looking at mom ..."What just happened ??! " I had never seen Bella head for the hills just to get away from me..

[WHAT do you think she said ?? :)) ]

Mah Way

GOOGIE'S GREEETS:..

Ah tale you she done came.. And she done grab me and trahd to put me een dat thang .. That awful thang..

Ah remember how Ah was put in there lawng ago.. And den Ah smelled sometin' quate disagreeable een there.. Ah just couldn't bare it, Ah tale you! DIS? Was the tame for me to come to and fight. Fight with awl mah might, and so Ah deeed with AWL mah strength. Ah dug een mah back claws and Ah shook her...

Hah!! Ah AM much stronger than her, see? Ah got MAH way.

At "The Doctor's"

Princess found the need to burrow her head into the doctor's armpit..

At The Vet

PRINCESS PRICELESS:


We went to "the doctor" yesterday and Princess here took to the female doc immediately...

I've never seen her act this way before with a 'stranger'.. It was an amazing thing. The vet talked to me on and on while Princess kept burrowing her face in her armpit..

I Sensed Unrest..

BELLA:

Everything was going fine as usual this morning.. Until I sensed unrest in the "downstairs". I heard some sounds that didn't seem right.. So I ran down there and what do I SEE... Googie fighting with mom ... OMG! I ran upstairs to check on Pipi.. Mom was behind me when I nose-tipped Pipi: "Pipi? What's happening? You must tell me, please!! " I was anxious.. I had never seen such a scene before. "I don't know, Bella.. It's nothing..", Pipi cool as a cucumber as always.. That cat is sooo calculating, I tell you.

I ran downstairs again and this time my very own mom tried to put me in that "carrier".. I know what it is, I know what they call it.. And for a moment there I wasn't sure what was happening.. I had to think about it and then I dug in my claws on the floor. "NO WAY I'm going in there!! ", I let her know in no uncertain terms.

The last I saw was Pipi inside another carrier, she told me it was hers anyway. She was waiting in there and I went and nose-tipped her again. "Pipi?? Where is she taking you? What is happening?? Please tell me!! ". She was still covering for mom, I think.. Not a word from her, really.

She came back later with mom .. She acted like nothing had happened and I started to wonder about Googie..

I Kissed A Tom - And I Think I Liked It

BELLA'S BITS:

Mom came home earlier. I watch her as she holds this thing in her hands and waves it up and down as she comes up the steps... And my head is bobbing up and down along with its movement...I accept it, it's something she's got to do.. I don't know why, or what it is.

[I hold a broom and use it to tear down any spider webs that may have formed up through the steps between the railings... Because I HATE having to run into them face-first! :))]

Bobbing By The Door

BELLA'S BITS:

Mom came home earlier. I watch her as she holds this thing in her hands and waves it up and down as she comes up the steps... And my head is bobbing up and down along with its movement...I accept it, it's something she's got to do.. I don't know why, or what it is.

[I hold a broom and use it to tear down any spider webs that may have formed up through the steps between the railings... Because I HATE having to run into them face-first! :))]

It's a Pack Watch

PRINCESS:

We all watched her leave this mornin... We were kinda... like deer in the headlights.. I was on the steps looking at her thru the railing, Googie had stopped in his tracks in the middle of the room, even little Getty was watching her closely.

Why does she have to go....

A Certain Word, A Certain Sound...

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

Mom lady paid me a visit.. I was snoozing right there by that same chair when she comes over from above and she's speaking softly to me .. But she's getting closer and closer. At that momentI I realized I was safe. Cause that thing was between us even though I could see her clearly through it.

So she stood above me and talked to me, asked me if I was "okay". But what really made me feel safe was the other word she used. I hear that word get said to the others, and they really like it: "Babyyyy"...

So I blinked my eyes at her every time she said it. The "Babyyyy" sound..

Comfy Is Better Than Jumpy

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

It took me a while to get on up to the beddie and join the others... Cause mom lady was on there... But I knew daddy Googie was there, miss Pipi was there.... And I finally got the courage to join them all, in spite my fear.

Cause, comfy eez definitely better than jumpy. Plus I got daddy by the neck after I licked him clean and I got away with it.

Herd Cat

BELLA'S BITS:

My role in the pack is expanding. They didn't know that I'm also a herd-cat.. Yes indeed, I am. I watched as Pipi kept messing around mom and that scrunchy bag; then mom picked it up and it made the scrunchy sound that scares Pipi so much for some unknown reason - I haven't been able to figure it out, I just watch these clowns dumbfounded. So Pipi starts to bolt like a crazy cat just because of the sound, and I'm sitting there on my usual territory spot watching her trying to flee.

I sprung into action - "HEPP!! You ain't running away!", I blocked her from running down the steps and coralled her into staying in the dining area, quietly trotting back to my spot.

My work was done.

Not Now Dear

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

I trotted right up to daddy Googie from the shadows of my dining table habitat, all ready and puffed up to greet him. "Daddy! I'm here, what's up?!". But aww.. He looked real serious, he was just coming to the edge of the "kitchen". I took a second look at him and I back-pedaled.

No time to turn around, too risky. I simply back-pawed my way outta his wrath. (Daddy was in a war mood, he was angry with miss Bella. )

I Like To Be Missed

BELLA'S BITS:

I've been spending time this evening away from all those other fools, fighting and jumping around down there. I stole away to mom's bed to have my peace and quiet. And then I came down to the kitchen cause I heard her calling me a few times. So I oblige, I do. Came down and parked it next to her feet where she was standing by that stupid thing again. But she noticed me and leaned down to touch me a few times. "Where were you? I missed you!", I heard her say. At that, I started purring loudly for sure..

I like to be missed.

And on my way up to the counter, I had to pass Googie. "DON'T mess with me!", I hissed for good measure. "But miss Bella.. Ah deedn't DO nuttin! " he stood there, motionless. "I'm just warning you! Don't f--ck with me!", I looked at him for a few more seconds and jumped up to get to mom.

The Smart Cat

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

I am the 'smart cat'.. Dat's right, she just called me dat, the mom lady.. Cause I know that there are cleaner, bigger poopoo boxes upstairs, and when I needed to go? I just hop on up the stairs to get to them. While the others here like miss Bella, insist on going to the dirty ones.. hahah!

So when I came down the steps and mom lady saw me? She said I am the "smart cat". And I blinked my eyes at her several times.

I know. Mom lady.

I Got Her Good

PRINCESS PRICELESS: I GOT 'ER GOOD

She didn't clean our boxes last night. So I went and pi'd on the couch, right where she sits. I got her good.

And I don't care if little miss Getty goes upstairs to use the clean ones. I shouldn't have to.