I'm No Troublemaker

GOOGIE'S GRITS:

"Ah had a slight tiff with big Bella just a while ago. Ah was standing right outsade the keetchen next to mah little Getty when Bella decided to walk out of the room and she apparently felt Ah was in the way. She couldn't just mand her own beesiness and keep walking past me. She had to stop and go through a whole litany of past misdeeds, who did what to whom, scoot down a little more, stretch her ears back and hiss at me.

"Whaat DO you want from me, Bella?", Ah stood impassively and looked at her as if nothing notable was happening. Mand you, Ah had little Getty on mah right, scooting and watching this whole scene and Ah did not want to scare her or disappoint her bah bullying big Bella.. Mah Getty is friends with her and Ah wanted to make a good show of it.. AH wasn't the troublemaker here.

"You always have to get in my way! YOUR role is not to guard the kitchen! ", she hissed. "Ah don't know what you're talking about, Bella. Ah'm just standing here talking with Getty.." She finally walked on with her big belly swinging from side to side. "

Miss Getty's Fury

BABY G:

"I had to endure another nasty scene with that miss Getty.. Tha.. special one I'm supposed to watch - and watch out for. Daddy and mommy Pipi have told me that.. Cause dey watch for her and take care of her and I'm supposed to, too - that has been made very clear to me.

So dees time, we're all up on mom's bed with her. And I'm laying next to Daddy, not a care in the world. Until miss Getty climbs back up for the second or third time. See, every time mom moves, Getty gets antsy and jumps off. So now she lost her place and I moved closer to Daddy and she didn't like dat. So she comes over my way and starts to attack me, like dees peeechure here below.

She just wanted me to move away so she could be with Daddy herself. I just stood my ground and stretched my neck back, my ears flat, my eyes closed - and prayed for this moment to END. And it did, thanks to mom, she told Getty the 'no' word and Getty stopped her nonsense. "  

The Door To Nowhere

"Ah have lived mah life in peace with mom in this house. Ah ain't nevah wondered what maght be, or what maght be out there beyond that door. Every single tame she done open dat door, Ah had stayed back and waited patiently and Ah did that for years.

Until Bella came along. She done put ideas in mah head, she tails me about a whole other world out there she's seen. She done go out there she says, bafawre she came to our house.. And that there is more to lafe, she says, than lafe in this house. And she tails me this with utter certainty, you see. She put ideas in mah head like that and then she steps back and complahs with mom becoze she says: "Mom just doesn't want you to know all about what's out there."

Well AH'M now quate curious.. Now, every tame mom done open the door, Ah get more and more curious and not only stick mah neck out, Ah take steps to get out and see for mahself. Well, SOME steps, anywah.. Eet's the forbidden territory that Bella has been tawlking about. "

Airborne From The Shadows

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD - With BIG BELLA:

"Every night - or day for that matter - when we need to leave mom lady's room, we have a problem, miss Bella and I; either one of us.

We have to pass the red cubie and that's where that wild minx Katie is hiding on the down low, waiting to ambush from the shadows. And so, we have a problem. Cause the cubie is right outside mom lady's door.

So every night, when miss Bella has to leave the room, she hesitates. She stands just before the red cubie, and mulls over her escape. Then she finally makes a run for it, quickly bolting past the cubie just so she's not ambushed and pawslapped.

I, on the other hand, after my own premedidation, end up gathering up my strength, balancing my back legs, and leap over the cubie. This way, it is impossible for that krazy Katie to pawslap and hiss at me. I become airborne over her and she can't even catch me.  Baby does that too.

Unfortunately, miss Bella can't jump like that, her belly's too big. She has told us about the pitfalls of having to pass by that cubie and so, Baby and I have followed her advice. "

An Entitled Little Minx

LITTLE GETTY'S WORLD:

"Just look at that entitled little minx.. Taking her liberties with the bunny and everything.. 

Tonight, she even climbed on top of that other chair and crawled under the blankie on it and started harassing me.. Cause I was right below it.   Had to crawl out myself, hissing in indignation."

Can't Have That

KATIE KITTY:

"I am the jumper. I scale the highest places in this house - paws down! I scale the big "wall system" like nobody else can. And I scale the top of the kitchen "cabinets" where I can reach close to the ceiling.

And I am NOT about to be shown UP!.. Let me tail you that, just to be clear.
So when I see that silly Baby scale MY spot? Up on top of the kitchen 'cabinets', way up high close to the ceiling? I will NOT let that BE!

I attacked him on his back full-on with a primal growl in no uncertain terms, making my point clear. You DON'T show ME up here! I'M the only jumper and YOU are in my charge! Stuck him up against the corner, he had nowhere to go. Until mom turned around and saw me and I had to split on the double and act like I did not care. "

Like A Furry Ballerina

KATIE KITTY:

"I can jump just as high as that crazy Baby. Yes, I CAN.

We're all getting a little sick and tired watching him show off every time mom holds the furry tail in front of him. He starts jumping so high, twisting up in the air... Well!

I have started doing the very same feat myself ! I have to show what I'M made of !! So I jump-N-twist up in the air just like HE does.

I'm like a naked furry ballerina. Why even that docile miss Priss has gotten into the act. "

A Test of Wills

BELLA'S BITS: A TEST OF WILLS

"I got mom to give up her seat on the big chair in front of the TV thing.

I waited while snoozing in my catbed across the floor until she got up to go to the kitchen. And just as fast, I got up and claimed that chair. Because it's the power chair.

She came back, looked at me, and said "That's my seat". I ignored her, pretended I did not understand. So she sat at the edge, in front of me. So now, here we were, both on the power chair, her ass halfway up against my belly. I know these maneuvers. She's hoping her ass will edge ME out - but it's HER ass that's on the edge.

I wasn't giving in. I waited patiently. She turned to look down at me, I guess to check my resolve as I did not move, I did not even shift:

"Meh! ", I looked up and politely declared I'm not leaving, my eyes as wide as can be, looking straight into hers. Have some pity on me.

She got up with a sigh and plopped her furless ass down on the couch.

I won. My butt can compete against her butt any day ! "

Separated

GOOGIE'S GRITS:

"Ah would like to announce that at this tame, Little Getty and Ah have separated.

It is an amicable separation, we still laauve each other.

Ah need mah space (and mah sanity back) and so Ah have given her mah favorite chair as part of the deal, while Ah have retreated down on the ground floor for the naght.

Ah can't be squeezed and trampled on while Ah'm trying to sleep. And Ah have told her not to come down and bother me, so she stays up on mah chair."

What Do I Know?

BELLA:

"Mom came down this morning and we all got up and joined her in the kitchen. I took my spot on the rug next to the lookout. And then she started saying:

"Where is Daddy Googie?" No one responded.

She then looked right at me and said: "Where is Gabriel??"

I looked right back and quickly answered: "Meah! "

By that, I hope I had absolved myself from any association or implication of his demise..."

My One Rule

GOOGIE'S GRITS:

"Ah have ONE rule.. And one rule only:

You do nawt jump and roll on tha big scratch post thang WITHOUT mah permission. AH am the keeper of the scratch post thang, even though Ah nevah use it as suuuch, eet eez a coveted object lake our pack's "monoleeeth" which AH feel eet needs to be protected and guarded - at AWL tames. [and most probably because it is a phallic stick covered by carpet shooting up in da air!! ]

And therefawre, AH ain't gonna let the likes of wayward minxes like Katie Kitty saunter up and roll all ovah it without getting my express blessing and approval first.

She nevah duuuzz.. And therefawre, Ah will give chase every tame. Ambushed her bah cawmplete surprase this last tame. "