Seeing Katie Again

Tonate, eet was a different approach.  Ah usually do nawt bother to schlepp down the stairs when mom's coming in.  Pipi and Ah have pretty much let miss Bella do the evening greetings and then she'll escort mom upstairs and we'll see her dere.  Howevah:  tonate we were all kinda anxious about little minx Katie kitteh becoze we all saw her in the carrier dis mornin and mom took her away.   Not good.  We did hear sometin about "the doctor" though..

So, Ah was pretty much swept into the whole procession, we awl couldn't wait, even mah little Getty was anxious to be there too.   So the door opened and all four of us were right there in front of mom, Getty even walking toward her with her neck all stretched out toward the carrier.  Ah approached carefully and nose-tipped the carrier...Once we realized Katie kitteh was in there, we all followed mom and her in the carrier upstairs.  Mom put it down awn the steps and we awl circled it, trying to talk to Katie kitteh...She was beang veeeery quiet.

Ah realized then that the "carrier" was open and Ah could see Katie's face!  She was eatin..  Ah approached carefully again, stretching mah whole body upwards:   "Katie hawney??  Are you awkay??  What happened??".   "Don't even ask Googie.. I.... I don't really know.. They had me in this place.. and I started dreaming, and then I woke up and I was in pain!  And they were poking me this way and that.. And then they put me in a cage!  I didn't know what to think really!... And then MOM came over and at first?  I didn't even realize it was her and I turned myself away toward the back of the cage, I was that scared.. and then I smelled her hand and was so glad to see her, I headbonked her over and over again!", she tried to explain it all to me with her head down a bit.. Ah could tale she wasn't her usual self.

"Well, Katie hawney, just relax... Ah will leave you alone for now, oop, Ah can feel mom raght behand me anyway.. Ah think she wants me to go .. But Ah'll tawlk to you soon, okay? "

Ah hope we can steel have our fun togetha..

I Just Couldn't Deal With It

PRINCESS:

I went to the "downstairs" to see what all the fuss was about. I usually wait upstairs for mom to come up because normally, we let miss Bella do the initial greeting. But this time, she urged us and we all knew, this was mo

re important.. We were missing Katie Kitty all day, we saw her in the "carrier", and we all felt a bit spooked about it. So I needed to see for myself: WHAT was going on.. I saw mom bring back the carrier, that much I saw. But I did not stay or approach to investigate any closer. I just assumed she must have brought another yet 'new cat'. I started to get a hopeless look in my face, I began to feel lost.. I panicked and ran upstairs while all the others were circling the carrier..

I ran up to the kitchen and began to dig my claws into my scratchers over and over again. You could hear it all the way downstairs.

My Work Is Done

KATIE KITTY'S KAHOOTS:

My work is done. Ate my lunch, lunged at all the other females, dared babeh-Getty off her perch, chased them all to the "downstairs"... And now I'm relaxing with Googie, he likes to listen to "jazz" on the coffee table. It's just us two right now having the whole living room to ourselves.

MY P's and Q's

KATIE KITTY: "MY P's and Q's"

I am not a dense or stubborn cat, trust me. When I lunge and charge toward, say... big-Bella or Princess, I get it: I'm not supposed to be doing it. So I take mom's cue, I can't very well miss it or ignore

it: she's pretty much in my face making the "no" noise - or charging ME. So I gingerly change my course at the last second as if it all never happened.. And with a spring in my step, I trott away happily.

What's next in my path?

Babysitting Duty

GOOGIE:

Ah am doing babeh-sitting duty right naw... Soon as Ah saw mah leetle Getty coming up from the depths of the downstairs, Ah got mahself up from dat coffee table, in spate of the jazz music playin' and walked on to the keetchen to h

elp her eat. Cause she always misses our meal sittings.

So Ah'm just hanging out right here, letting her snack on the 'nummy num' and feel safe bah me.. She bean.. butting-heads een the wrong way with our new Katie lateleh and ...Ah don't really wanna eenterfere with dat.. Dey are both so leetle yaw see..

Drawing The Line

BELLA'S BITS:

This was one time I was NOT going to back out from that little twit's challenge. She had the NERVE to come up to me and try to bully me away from my dinner bowl, would you believe it? ! Well she sure found out who is boss

at THAT point, little ninny! I shooshed her back with a hiss and a paw and continued eating - while she fled with her tail between her legs.

[Katie Kitty did verify for sure this time what her limits are... ]

Staring Until I'm Satisfied

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

Mom lady just came in and she went straight to where my old catbed is on that white chair.. with that bad-cat Katie right on it. I just couldn't believe it, she went straight for her and started petting her - ON MY

bed! I was standing there by the kitchen with daddy-Googie, we were all just staring at this spectacle. And then mom lady noticed and started to walk toward me, coo-cooing me ...and I stopped halfway in my tracks, my left paw outstretched in mid-step up front, my right paw backwards - and I stood motionless like this, just staring right in her eyes. We had a moment, you could say.

After I was satisfied that I out-stared her, I continued to my destination spot. Hah!

Airborne

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD: "AIRBORNE"

I sensed mom lady falling asleep on her beddie and I got ready for my leap up there... I was gonna sneak myself up with her, so I started for my ascent giving out my customary 'meow'. I always do that whe

n I am jumping on mom lady's bed. Little did I know, someone ELSE was already there. That dang minx Katie, right on the landing spot! So I bounce off of her, SHE hisses up a huff-and-a-puff - there's suddenly a whole hissfest and I spontaneously go airborne again.

... I landed on the floor, on the OTHER side of the bed. Katie kitty was only my stepping stone.

What It Means To Be A Bad Cat

KATIE KITTY: "I started my day out with mom not too good. I trotted into her open room with a spring in my step, looked her right in the eye without blinking, and then she said: "You're a bad cat!". At that, I turned on my paw immedia

tely and walked out with my ears down.

...I don't know if I deserve this... But I take my cues pretty quickly.

[Katie kitty had just chased Pipi away from mom's room - to start the day. ]

A Growing Cat-Vocabulary

KATIE KITTY: "My vocabulary keeps growing... Mom chided me again tonite for another little something and.. well, I tried to run up the stairs and then I heard her say: "you wanna give me a kiss-kiss?".

I stopped and leaned over and nose-tipped her.. I understand EVERYTHING. I just like to ambush big-Bella is all..

A Neck-Twist And A Nose-Tip

Ah heard a big commotion this evening which made me jump to mah feet. Both me and Pipi sprung in attention. We got quate upset at the spectacle of seeing big Bella high-tail it down the stairs like a refugee. Ah looked over at Katie Kitty, who quate obviously was the one who ambushed our miss Bella and began to slowly walk over to her. Ah deed NAWT like this one bit.

As Ah approached her, slowly, Ah started to turn mah neck menacingly. Ah wasn't happeh, not at awl. "Katie, dis was not the way to go... You don't do this to our miss Bella, you can't disrespect her like that."

"But schnookums, she's just being hysterical.. I didn't really do anything to her...", Katie explained. Well, it's true, AH'VE seen miss Bella hysterical during our own trials... "Awkay.. Ah'll take that - for now", Ah said. Katie leaned over to me, she stretched her neck all the way out waiting for me to nose-tip her. The spell was broken - Ah nose-tipped her and that was the end of that.

Mah Clingy Leetle Girl

Ah went over to the bowls for some snacking... Ah really didn't expect any companeh at this point. But babeh-Getty came out of left field, with her high-pitched meowing at me: "Daddy? Daddy?!! Are we eating together?", she squeaked as she siddled up to me, butt first.

"Scoot away now, okay?", Ah flicked mah right front leg to keep her from bumping into me, honestly. Ah didn't even thunderpaw her or anythang clsoe. But she has this nasty habit of wanting to bump and grind up against me when Ah'm trying to go eat... Cause you see, she expects me to help her eat or somethang.. She sees me as her gateway to ...sustenance, really..

Mom saw it and she tried to make babeh-Getty feel bettah from afar: "Aww, honeeeey... It's okay!", she told her. Getty turned to her after my gentle nudge to back off you see... She looked to mom for reassurance.

Mah Specifications

Ah done jump and ran soon as Ah caught weeend of young minx Katie ketteh going for the cat bathroom... Dat's da inner sanctum and you have to EARN your privileges... So soon as Ah saw her sauntering een? Ah ran clear out from the keetchen and stopped bah the entry there to the boxes...

Ah figured, she'll get the message when Ah start digging mah claws on the carpet. [And sure enough she did - She had a change of heart and turned right around and vacated the premises.. ]

Howevah: Ah heard mom say to me: "Googie, she HAS to go to the bathroom you know... You can't keep her out!".. Ah retired after that awn the coffee table and decided to just let it be...

[The damage was done though at least temporarily.. He kept Katie kitty from using the boxes because he is SUCH a neat-freak pretty boy, he wants his boxes all clean for himself... ;)) ]

The Minx

Ah have bean beesy the last couple o'days dealin with this new little minx. We awl started looking at her at first, motionless and speechless. And then she started acting up.. Ah got cawncerned about mah little Getty and Ah kept closebah to her under the table. Then Ah got cawncerned about Pipi, and the food bowls. You see, Ah am the appointed neat-pretty-boy round here, trained well bah Pipi herself.

Ah can't have a new cat making a mess of things around the house. So Ah followed her when she went eento the keetchen today, make sure she wasn't disturbing thangs.. Good thang, she was submitting to mah specifications..

Then she jumped awn up on top of the couch where Ah was laying, and mom was laying. Would you believe she let me know AH was in her way? She got in mah face and hissed at me... She done hiss at me bafawre, not to mention lunge at me, trahing to pick a fight. Ah stood there and stared at her - motionless and emotionless. Ah can't possibleh fight with a young one.. Ah really can't..

Better Take Good Measure

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

I was busy looking out right there, and I knew mom lady was far away into the last room all across the way there. But I suddenly heard her call out "Bellaaa??!". At that, I quickly turned and trotted out of the kitchen and back up to my chair.

Take my spot up and be safe before SHE comes around..

[Getty was apparently in no mood to be around Bella.]

Digging My Claws In

LITTLE GETTY:

I was in the kitchen just now with daddy-Googie laying on the floor nearby me, watchin when mom lady came in with that new minx following her. She started to coo-coo me, trying to coax me into giving her a "kiss-kiss". I

lowered myself further to the floor, wasn't too sure of that.. She lowered herself down too, and sat behind Googie. Aww what do I do now? Daddy just looked at me and never moved.. I finally made a run for it, jumping over daddy and mom lady. I ran right to miss Bella's spot and dug my claws in as hard as I could. I had to re-affirm myself, somehow.

Miss Bella was nowhere near of course.. (But minx Katie-kitty chased me and forced me to fly down the stairs after my clawfest. )

Two Is A Crowd

BELLA'S BITS: TWO IS A CROWD..

Mom went up to her room and I followed her; I wanted to cuddle on the beddie with her. But when I jumped up there, I saw one of the others laying low between the sheets with her face facing the other way.. So I couldn't tell: WHO was it? It coulda been Little Getty, it coulda been Pipi for all I know. Could it really be that new twit?! I kept looking, unable to figure out WHO it was... I felt too nervous to relax there with mom so I jumped down and went straight to her "closet", I love to go there and be with all her things with her smell.

Well I was in for a rude awakening. Next thing I know, that little twit got IN my FACE! I'm under all these clothes and hiding and then this tiny little SNOUT is sniffing me out!

"HEY! god darn it! WHAT do you WANT?!", I hissed away as I tried to get the hell outta there... Except my paw got caught on one of mom's things.. If THAT wasn't enough, by the time I finally untangled myself, I had to then face non-other than GOOGIE. "What are you doing there? What's all this commotion with the little one?", he demanded to know.

"Googie don't even.. Just don't even, okay? I'M not the 'bad cat' here." I had to explain myself on top of it all, and he had to stand there and check me over ! I slowly began to extricate myself from this messed up situation while the TWIT the whole time is still skulking around in MY space back in the closet.. While Googie is running interference for HER (!)..

Thank cat-God that mom ran interference for ME.

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