Back From The Brink

I heard something.  Yes, I did and I focused in on it fearing... Fearing that strangers might bust in on me and take me away.. like the way it happened before..

You see.. I was somewhere else long time ago.. I belonged to someone who I had to look out for. But one day, they came and took him.. They took him away from me and I was left alone to fend for myself.. And then a kind person nearby my home looked in on me and fed me, and took me to this other place.. A place I really don't want to remember ...It was horrible in there, many cats crying.. I could smell and sense the fear in there, and I even got sick.

But after a little while, I heard the conversation among them.. I heard them say that I was going to be "pulled" - and that sounded like a good thing. While my eyes were runny and my nose stuffed up and I could hardly breathe, I was put into a box to get readied to meet someone new. I did figure this was a good thing, I was now out of that place full of cries and fear and all those other cats. I was stuck in that box for a little while but.. But then it opened and I was picked up by a lady who seemed so glad to see me, she held me close to her and I forgot all about my worries and fear and let her hold me close to her as I quietly purrred away..

That was the first day I met my new 'mom'. I liked her instantly.

Things That Make Me Go Growl!

THINGS THAT MAKE ME GO 'GROWL' - No. 13 :

Do NOT stand there and tell me 'Not from the Baby!' when I'm trying to get myself seconds.. !

Or thirds.

Why Not Me?

BELLA'S BEEF: 

"It was that time again, when mom was cleaning our boxes and the house got dark.. And I'm sitting there near my spot, waiting to accompany her upstairs. But I looked over across the room and who comes out but little Baby... He went straight to miss Priss and started licking her head. She was lapping it up allright..

I sat there and looked at them under the cover of darkness.. Am I missing something here? How come he is grooming HER.. ?

Mom came by right at that moment and ran her fingers over my head. "It's okay, Bella.. you okay? ", she said to me.   I looked up at her and meowed once in response. "Well... I'm just looking at THEM.. king of annoyed right now.. Meeehhhh!"

I won't lie to you though, it felt good to get mom's attention at least. "

Walk On By

BELLA'S BEEF: 

"Well, would you believe I became the target of that orange mountain again?  What a shock. He's passing me by after some kind of snafu he got involved in and now he turns around on his way to the kitchen and focuses in on me:

"What CHU looking at? ", he threatened as he took a step toward me in no uncertain way. My instant reflex was to recoil backward, lower myself to the floor and turn my ears into pancakes.

"Get away from me you big bully, I'm warning you!!!", I snorted loudly.

This definitely got mom's attention who came to the rescue. He walked away as if nothing had happened and I was left standing there by the steps. Mom put her hand over my head and whispered to me that it might be better that I go on to my bed "downstairs". Well no, I won't. I'm hungry and I wanted to go in for a snack - and that's exactly what I did! That bully isn't gonna stop ME with his pompous presence in there.

I can snort too. He's not the only one who can do it."

No Dirty Cat

KATIE KITTY'S KAHOOTS: 

"I had a snafu with mom today. She keeps coming after me when I go and sit by the 'screen door' there on that .. place really close to it. And then with Baby climbing it all over, she starts yelling and we both scram out of there as it is.. But she keeps telling me it's "dirty" and she picks me up and puts me on the rug next to it.. But I don't WANT TO! - is MY point! .. I just don't see why I have to be moved!

"Your pristine white belly is gonna get so dirty!", she tells me..

"Mmmmmmmmm-mm!!!", I tell her back, frustrated. Leave the grooming to ME, I know how to take care of myself.

She even tried to clean me with this white "paper towel" thingy and that absolutely got me so annoyed! I stood there by the steps still seething over it when Googie came by and looked up at me:

"What's the commotion Katie? Why you so bothered?", he wanted to know.

"Cause mom is being a beatch!! She keeps coming after me telling me I'm "dirty"!!", I exploded at him with my eyes. Well, I guess he didn't wanna have any of that. "Ah'm gonna GIT you, you bad girl! Ah gonna GIT you!", he thundered up the steps chasing me all the way up. "Now.. WHERE were we?..", he leaned in on me, cornering me up against the railing. Just in time, mom shows up to break it up. I gladly ran over and sought refuge on her bed. "

My Babysitting Assignment

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD: 

"So I came out of my safe spot this evening, I timed it just right you see. I wait until mom lady has been laying on the couch for a little while, out of the way. So I won't have to run into her. 

Besides: daddy passed it on to me while we headbonked nearby that it was my turn to babysit; he went onto the kitchen and I went towards the baby.

So I played with the little baby there, by miss Bella's area - she had gone up to be with mom lady on the couch. So I had fun playing with the baby.. he's just so cute and good to me.. He won't climb all over me or jump me, and I keep him reigned in.. He can see I could mean business, really."

I Tried To Kiss Her And I Liked It

BABY G: "I TRIED TO KISS HER AND I LIKED IT "

"Dere was a ring all of a sudden out of nowhere... And just as suddenly? EVERYpawdy scrammed SO fast? It left my head spinning.. I was the only one left behind, standing confused and bushy-tailed out by the kitchen.. WHAT were they all so afraid of that made them run so fast out of sight? I panicked.. Mom came to me to make me feel better, she said the "okay" words.. and picked me up.. My tail went back to size.. And then she opened the door and a new human came in I hadn't seen before.

After briefly flitting out to the corner, I boldly came back to check the scene out. Well, it was a female human, I could tell THAT. I climbed all over the chair where she was sitting, got on top of the table and walked all over her papers there where she had in front of her.

And then? I leaned in on her.. I had to have her full undivided attention as I leaned on her face to nose-tip her. But that wasn't enough.. I carefully leaned even FURTHER in with my lips.. and tried to kiss her.

Nosetipping is for ninnies.. You gotta go in for the KISS! "

 

My Ps And Qs

BABY G: 

"I know my Ps and Qs now.. I heard mom say to me "excuse me" while I was near her checking out what she was doing. Well, daddy and the whole crew has explained to me, and of course I myself have observed it, that every time she tells them "excuse me"? - they move out of her way.

And so I did da same too: I moved as soon as I heard her say "excuse me".

I know my P's and Q's... I also know "get outta there!", and "out, out, out!! ".. 

A Hiss In Indignation

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

"Well I certainly did not appreciate THAT!

Mom lady came at me out of nowhere as I had just settled in my favorite bed and made myself comfortable in what I believe it to be my safest spot.. And she comes at me saying those words I dread:

"WHAT did you DO?"

My ears went flat and I hissed in indignation, I was swift in my reaction to those words. "I didn't do NOTHING!". I stared at her ready to flee if I had to, by now my ears flat as a pancake.

"Well, excuse ME!", she said and backed away from me.. after checking that black thing there by the wall, close to my beddie.. "

A Closet Invasion

GOOGIE'S GRITS:

Ah did a mild hiss at the strange lady.. She done come into mom's closet and Ah was parked there, Ah thought it'd be safer there when Ah heard the doorbell.

So Ah looked up at her as she invaded my space and Ah thought Ah had cawnveyed mah feelings... But she wasn't understanding.. So Ah looked her in the eye and hissed at her quietly: "Miss? Ah don't think you're allowed in here..."

Ah finally bolted awn outta there in a hurry after Ah realized she wasn't speakin' mah language..

A Conversation With Big Bella

GOOGIE'S TEACHINGS:

Ah deigned to talk Bella into some sense.  Ah seen her the uther day running around complaining about mom fussing over her, she was growling.. Sayin' she didn't like it, why is mom bothering her with her furr, she is perfectly capable of grooming her own self.

Well, Bella hawneh, let me tale you how it eeez:  Mom done do the very same thang to ME.  It aint's so bad, and Ah take it.  Yes, yes.. she done hold the same shiny thang in her hand, done go cleeep, cleep, cleep..  And Ah stand patientleh and let her work on me.. It feeals goood, Bella!  She's grooming us, don't you get it?

"But why can't she lick us when she's trying to groom us? ", Bella growled.

"Because, Bella.. she just ain't that way.. Ah don't know, she just .. that's not her way.  But the thang is the same, she's trying to "clean" you."

Ah done say mahself, big Bella done listen to me.  Because next tame mom went after her with the shiny thang this morning?  Bella let her.. She done stood in place, on that sade table in the kitchen, and calmly let her.  No more growling, no more hysterics.  In fact, she done lick her back in thanks.

Ah know.  Ah watched quietly from afar from the other room.

Pack Peer Pressure

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

"I noticed mom lady coming close to me again today and I took position and prepared to hiss at her . Better yet, I thought I would just bolt out of the scene.

However, there was a little problem: I came running out of the shadows of my territory only to find the entire pack standing about there.. I froze on the spot as they all stared at me.

Miss Bella was closest to my laird, sitting there looking at me: "You'll never learn, won't you Getty?". And Baby was further out looking at me puzzled.. Daddy was nearby in the kitchen looking on, resigned to it all.. Miss Princess was leaning close to the wall, watching me closely. And that kooky Katie was revving her engines, ready to chase me and pounce on me if I ran up the steps, I knew she would.

So yes, I stopped on the spot among all watchful eyes.. I didn't want to make a fool of myself and be seen running away from mom lady, cause they all think I'm a freak as it is..

I held my position even as she approached closer, and once she paid attention to somepawdy else, I leapt further away. To miss Bella's power spot actually. "

Stuck in Nowhere Land

GOOGIE'S TALE:

" I done got stuck. Yes, ma'am.. Ah was wandering around mom's stuff when she done closed the door good 'n taght. Ah didn't realize Ah was stuck until Ah tried to get out, see. And nopawdy was there to help me... Ah usually don't even go in there but.. Ah was following the baby, keepin' an eye on him cause he likes to go in there awl the tame. We awl like her smell in there, it's full of it, it's got awl da stuff she puts on her.

So Ah waited and waited.. Ah screamed and yelled.. Katie Kitteh tried to help me but she couldn't open the door... She tried to tale me that mom had said the "I'll be back" words, so she wasn't here.

Ah kept waiting, hour after hour.. Ah eventually had to do mah business on top of it awl.. oh-boy.. Ah knew she wouldn't lake DAT.. Doing mah business among her stuff dat she puts awn.. But Ah had no choice, you see.. Ah had to pick a spot in the back there and do it.. But Ah held mah pipi... Yes, ma'am Ah did.. DAT was the most important thang, to at least not pipi around dere, cause SHE'd be really peeeessed.

So finally, after a really long tame, Ah started hearing mom screaming for me.. Ah didn't make a peep.. Ah had fallen asleep bah then.. So she finally done come up and opened up da closet door.. Ah was sleepin' raght behand it..

"GABRIEL?!!! How could you get locked in here like that?!!!", she was so excated to see me Ah guess.

Ah just nonchalantly walked outta there, and in no particular hurry at awl.. But Ah looked back and pointed to mah business to let her know what Ah had done, Ah turned mah neck in dat direction bafawre Ah finally left this little cozy abode of mane for the past five hours.. "

A HIssing Fit

BABY G: 

" I just saw that 'little Getty' act really weird in front of mom.. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Getty was hissing at mom.. And she started running away from her, running for the hills. Cursing at her.. Tings dat I couldn't possibly repeat here. But ...she was acting as if mom was a burden, like she didn't need her, and hissing at her to leave. Aw my..

I ran after her as fast as I could, as she climbed up the stairs: "Hey!! WAIT! Why are you acting like this???! Stop it!!"

I finally caught up with her upstairs, leaving mom waiting down there. We came back down and Getty went to relax on one of the chairs. Mom came back out again in her area and Getty got all uptight again and jumped off and hightailed it, and me back on her tail again. I really couldn't help it, she was such a target to me especially with the way she was acting! And then she hissed at ME, too!

By the time it was all over with, I had ran so fast and so long up and down, my tongue was hanging out. Boy, deeze girls! It's a lot to handle.. "

Into A Corner

Ah have cornered big Bella again tonight.

It was when she done come down all the way to the front door, she wanted to play bah the baby. Well Ah decaded she was too close to the baby. So Ah cornered her right bah the corner there.

Unfortunately, Ah almost got cornered bah mom.. She didn't see eye to eye with me on this..

A Bush For No Reason

BELLA'S BEEF: 

"Mom came home the other day and something must have been different because Baby took one look at what she had with her and started to freak.. He just kept looking and twisting his neck this way and that..

Well that made ME nervous.. And I bushed my tail to a porcupine level.. I take these things seriously, even from a child.. If it was enough to freighten HIM, it was enough to make ME squeamish.

Truth be told, nothing ended up being amiss.. I just got more attention from mom at the end.. "

Greeting Duty

BABY G: 

"I have been given permission to be the first and only one now to greet mommy when she comes in! Yeah, yeah! I'm down there already with my tail up in the air ! Before aunt Bella is even coming down!

Aunt Bella is slow moving nowadays you know.. But she don't mind ME.. I've shown her how I can help and stuff! "

Too Much PDA

BIG BELLA'S BEEF:

"Well that time came again.   The time late in the evening when that Getty starts to saunter across the room and goes begging to Googie to let her lay on his belly.  She takes advantage of him, the way he lays there sleeping already.. So he lets her.  She goes up to him nosetipping him, trying to endear herself to him.. Me and Katie started to watch this scene again tonight.

Katie was sitting right across from them, staring.  And so was I.

Well I got all riled up just watching.  I started to focus in on them, ears pointed, back legs starting to balance, ready to stalk 'n pounce.   I premeditated my ...disruption.

And then I jumped and ran toward them and whooshed right by them and started to dig my claws right next to them.  Googie couldn't get me fro that, it's my territory and I can just pretend they don't matter!  Hah!!! "

A Bit of a Disturbance...

"Yes, we had a bit of a deeesturbance here in the main room a little while ago.

You see, mom was already settled in sitting on the couch and we were all nearby when we heard a strange sound out of left field, literally. We AWL freaked out at the same tame, Baby included. Done of us split altogetha, Katie done run for tha hills. Big Bella got a bushed out tail sitting next to mom... she didn't know what had happened but got spooked out bah our running around...she done run downstairs.. And one of us stepped on mom's foot and scratched it while trying to seek refuge...

Eet was a mess.. Ah didn't really know what was going AWN..But Ah stood mah ground in day middle of tha floor raght bah Bella's power spot."

Motherly Instincts Bite Me!

BELLA'S BITS:

"I came out of the closet in mom's room and the baby was laying right in front of me. So I took the time to check him over good: I stuck my snout up his butt, making sure he's coming along okay down there, you know ... Hestayed laying down while I was inspecting him, he took it for granted.

And then I went over to his face and nose-tipped him thoroughly... Nipped his chin and neck a little bit, too.. told him to be a good boy.

Right about then, as I started to walk away, the others looked up and took notice, that miss Priss and her orange fluff sidekick.

"What are you doing to the little boy? ", they gave me the stink-eye.

"Aw, BITE me both ! ", I hissed twice at each of them as I quickly got out of there, looking back to make sure I wasn't gonna get jumped. "

I'm No Klepto Kat

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD: 

"I'm sauntering across the living room, and mom lady is sitting there on that special chair where she's spent a whole lot of time again today. So I'm passing her by nonchalantly when she turns and looks at me. And I stop.

I look at her back, I'm frozen in mid-stride. And she starts to laught at me. I straighten up and stand upright, gazing at her, my eyes filling up wide. "Awww, it's okay! Whaaat?", she says.

Next thing, she throws her little thingy toward me, it's got her scent all over it, she wears it on her hair dis "scrunchy". So I lean down and carefully regard it, smell it. Now.. what is it that you're trying to do or tell me by this? I'm not gonna swipe it like those klepto cats, miss Pipi... SHE would steal it, but I wouldn't.

I just left it lying there as I went about my way after I was ensured all was safe. "

The Real Meaning of "I'm Sorry"

GOOGIE'S BABY-G:

"I follow mom everywhere she goes.. So I saw her walk over to the other side of the room where she stood by the door there and looked out where we all go to hunt.. So I got up from my snooze and quickly went over to her, stood by her legs.

I do as she does, you see.

But next thing I knew, she turned just as quickly around and moved the other way.. and I was knocked back outta my balance. And dat's when she realized I was right there next to her already. I ran away thinking bad things and she followed me saying tings like:

"Awww, I'm SORRY.. I didn't SEE you...awww! "

At first I was hesitant and I jerked one more move away from her.. But then she kept trying to tell me deeze tings, and I realized.. dis was like .. an "I didn't see you".

So I leaned in and nosetipped her finger, cause she wanted me to. "

White Mitten Slap-Fest

KATIE KITTY'S KAHOOTS:

"I don't take no shit from anypawdy. And tonite, I had it out with that weirdo, Getty. I thought it was high time that I challenged her territory, who did she think she was to be hogging the spot under the table forever?!!

"Hey! ", I advanced -and-slapped. Several times. "Back off ! I can go down there too ! You're not owning that spot and it's time you get out ! "

Slap. Again.
Getty came out of hiding after this pawslap-fest and hung around in the open.

Old Hat

Nowadays, I don't really mind. That new little twit-baby that's joined our pack, I know he likes to play.. And I've played with him, grin 'n bear it style, you know? Cause he's got me in some corner, or I'm too lazy to get up and run, or worse yet, I know that dumb Googie is watching.

So now, he was watching mom clean out our boxes and she kept telling him the 'no' word.. We're not supposed to go in there when she's "cleaning" - and we've taught him that. I was sitting patiently next to him, waiting for the "cleaning" to be done. But he was waiting outside the box room a little too close for her taste. So he turned to ME after that, and played with my tail.

It was no big deal.. I just got up and walked away, did not even look back.. We're all tired of 'engaging' him into playfight... We need our peace and quiet. "

Crashing My Scene

BELLA'S BEEF:

"In spite of how patient I've been with twit-baby, he still tries to get under my skin.   And he does it when he knows I am busy and preoccupied.   That would be when mom comes back in through the door, and I'm there to greet her.  I've had to put up with the fact that he has to join the party, when I was usually the first and only.

So when she comes in, I take my place on top of the side table, knowing that she'll sit next to it for a few moments to take off her shoes.  So I take the opportunity to rub shoulders with her so to speak, I'm right there eye-level to her face, and so I can give her my kisses on her cheek.  It's another one of our routine.

But twit-baby has to crash the scene.  And what he does is, he goes UNDER the table I'm standing on... And he can see me [it's glass].  And he starts sticking his paw at my tail through the opening there, between the table and the couch where mom's sitting.  Ping, ping, ping!

"Hey!!  Stop that you little rascal!!", I turn around in the middle of my kisses to mom and growl, and try to catch my tail, his paws, whatever !  I get so pissed off and then he succeeds in getting me to jump down and get out of this compromising position. "

I Have Become A Voyeur...

BIG BELLA'S BITS:

"I have become a voyeur... Yes, yes - I have.  Even though we cats don't call it that, the meaning is the same as I'm trying to relate it all to you.

You see, big orange mountain fluff Googie has this penchant for chasing down and scruffing miss Priss, the Princess.   I really don't know what their deal is because they go way back but I have had to be exposed to it numerous times now in the past couple of years.

At first, I tried to help miss Priss... but Googie got so angry at me, it became impossible to step in and defend her.. He would turn his wrath on me and disrupt the whole house with mom running to us, screaming at him to get away from me....

So now... Now I've been reduced to just watching them.. This morning, he did it again, he ran over to her out of nowhere, clear across the whole house - and he grabbed her by her scruff and stradled her.. While she squealed and tried to tell him to get off!

I could do nothing more than just sit there on my perch and... watch.  Watch closely, with my ears pointed toward them..

Yes, I have become a voyeur.

Ah Ain't No Angel

Ah aint' no angel. Ah do declare, Ah ended up cornerin' all three of mah wily females, one after anotha. And scruffed one up.

At first, Ah became aware dat somethang was going awn up bah the stairs going to mom's room. Ah could hear mom taling big Bella dat "it's okay, come on up!". Well Ah reckon, Ah thought big Bella was causing trouble again, so Ah walked up there to see her. Ah looked up and Ah then see miss Katie at the top of the steps, scootin. "She's giving me a hard time Googie!", miss Katie eenformed me.

Big Bella was down half way bah the steps but Ah didn't lake the way miss Katie was looking, so Ah decaded that Ah was gonna have a word or two with big Bella. And a word or two Ah had, including a snort or two. Well, Ah couldn't help it if that forced miss Bella to lean ovah to the corner.. Nawt MAH fault. But that's nawt the way mom saw it. Anywah, after Ah got shooshed outta her face, mah pride and ego were bruised... to be insulted like that in front of big-B while Ah had her up against the wall! Know what Ah mean?

So down the steps Ah rumbled, liking it or not, and the first female Ah see is mah Pipi. "Hey, Pipi!! What are YOU doing, you loose cat? Hey! come here, AH'LL teach YOU!".. Ah took her bah the scruff to settle her down some.

No... That's not the way mom saw it either. Now Ah'm running around randomly looking for mah next victim.. Ah'm looking to big Bella again but Ah keep hearing 'no!' and 'what's the matter with you??!'. So Ah geeeve up. And trah to take it out on miss Katie. Out of left field, later awn, Ah decaded Ah was gonna corner her where she was standing. Raght up against the wall. She kept looking at me, he little eyes getting big 'n black, trying to reason with me, not a peep out of her. Mah tail was twitchin' and Ah kept closing in, Ah stuck mah paw out toward her.. Mah neck twisted ..

"WHAT's the MATTER with you?!!! "

... Aww, Ah hate deeeze words...

Cornered By A Boor

BELLA'S BITS: "MY Side of The Story"

"I heard mom moving about upstairs in her room so it was time to go up and see her. So I gingerly climbed the steps halfway up when I saw that pesky Katie up already at the top. She was sitting there looking at me, taunting me.. daring me to come up, threatening that she would pawslap me.

I literally had to stop mid-step while I had almost made it up there too. But I just didn't want to get into a fight with her and I certainly did not want to be attacked.. So down I went, to the halfway landing. Mom saw it all and kept trying to tell me it was okay to come up, and 'don't worry'. But there was that problem ...So as I waited for that kook to go away, up comes that orange mountain Googie. He sees me nervous and uncomfortable, he looks at Krazy Katie up there who starts lying to him .. making it look like I'M the one who wants to attack HER.. And he takes the offensive on me.. Can you believe it.

"Bella, you're outta line again... What did we say? ", his arrogant self leaned toward me menacingly. He was way out of line himself, complete with orange fur flying about, it almost made me sneeze, I'm so allergic to his whole self!

"Leave me alone you booor! ", I tried to get away and there was nowhere to go but lean back to the corner and the wall. "If mom sees you, you're gonna be in so much trouble! You're not supposed to be doing this to me, you dumb bully!! "

"SNORT! SNORT!!! Don't you dare insult me, Bella! ", now he got really upset at my threats.

"WHAT is going on down there? What are you DOING Googie? Out! Out! Get down please! No!! ", mom's voice echoed now through the stairs as she ran over to my defense.

And the little boorish heap of orange fluff was gone. Just like that. "

The Point of No Return

BELLA'S BITS: 

"I just don't know WHY is it that there is a boundary when mom goes out that door. Why is it that I cannot go beyond that point? We have all this space up and down here but it just comes to an end, a stopping point right where she leaves and comes back from.. But why? WHERE is she going? and Why can't we go with her?

So, I insist.. Well, I did before.. I have kinda given up insisting to tell you the truth cause I hate to see her lose it and scream as if something horrible is happening.. These last few times she's gone down there to leave and opened the door, I did not even bother to go down there, I let .. Baby G do the honors and substitute for me. So now HE accompanies her and escorts her while the rest of us stay upstairs.

I don't like to upset her so I turn right around and run right back where I'm supposed to be. "

Afraid In the Dark

Ah sensed somethang different last night. Momma came down at a really odd hour of the night, and even though sometames she does that, Ah felt her needing me. Ah was out of sight on the ground floor but momma did need me. So Ah stepped up and went up to her room, Katie was already there.

Of course, Ah had companeh, Baby is attached to mah hip, but he settled down. Ah kept close to her awl night, like Katie. Ah walked awn ovah to Katie and checked on her, looked her in the eye: "You sure you wanna stake it out here?"

"I wouldn't be anywhere else, besides, she picked me up herself and brought me up here.. Where were YOU? "

Ah was right there bah her side when she woke up. She was afraid of sometin..

I'm No Klepto Cat

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD: 

"I'm sauntering across the living room, and mom lady is sitting there on that special chair where she's spent a whole lot of time again today. So I'm passing her by nonchalantly when she turns and looks at me. And I stop.

I look at her back, I'm frozen in mid-stride. And she starts to laught at me. I straighten up and stand upright, gazing at her, my eyes filling up wide. "Awww, it's okay! Whaaat?", she says.

Next thing, she throws her little thingy toward me, it's got her scent all over it, she wears it on her hair dis "scrunchy". So I lean down and carefully regard it, smell it. Now.. what is it that you're trying to do or tell me by this? I'm not gonna swipe it like those klepto cats, miss Pipi... SHE would steal it, but I wouldn't.

I just left it lying there as I went about my way after I was ensured all was safe. "

Do Not Insult Me

BELLA'S BITS: 

"You know, I am really good to mom. I bathe her face every night, I greet her by the door, I listen to her pleading screaming when I try to run out - AND come back on my own cause I hate to see her in distress.. I'm even nice to "not the baby".. And I follow her faithfully into her bed on nights when I can see she is really tired and what seems to me to be ..'at risk' as they say. When she's stayed up too long, and her colors have changed.. well, anyway, it just doesn't look healthy to me.

So, I stay vigilant by her side on the bed, intent on seeing her through. And then SHE tries to talk me out of staying, trying to corral me out of there; she does it by first telling me that "it's time to go to beddie-bye now". Yes, I know that. That is why I am here, so why don't YOU go nanny-nanni.

But no.. She insists.. Next, she told me in her whisper voice "You're my beautiful cat". Well, you know? I may know what that means in a different context, cause she tells me that every time I give her the facial bath. But THIS particular time? You're insulting me. Cause it's not true, and it WON'T work on me. I looked up at her, me eyes as black as they could be they were so dilated and quietly hissed at her. I looked her straight in the eye.

Don't butter me up when all you really wanna do is make me leave! I'll leave on my OWN! And so I did, I jumped off in a huff after that comment."