The evil that cats do...

As you should be aware of by now, we are servants to two female ginger cats. herself adores them, I tolerate them & Mr Dog lives in abject terror of them. The smaller of the two, Fattums, is a wonderful little hunter, but suffers from a lack of teeth. Thats what ya get I suppose when you don't floss. She does the hunting, but can't do the ritual dismemberment & compulsory feather spread on the lounge carpet, so she catches the birds, sits outside the back door yowling in that special "I've got a gob full of feathers. Grubs up !" To which Tiggs, the other cat, responds, sits reverently until Fattums has finished the ritual torture & execution, then takes the poor pathetic sodden little corpse in through the cat door & proceeds with the final part of the ritual. So determined is she in this that she bought the same bird inside 4 times, twice recovering it from the front garden where I threw it from the front door, carrying it round the house to the back door & giving me that "I dare you to take it off me again asshole," look. So I did & put it in the wheely bin this time.

We have noticed that Fattums has been having more than her fair share of success with little finches recently. Herself found out why today. You see, we give Mr Dog regular bones to eat. Having been told in no uncertain terms that the hall carpet is NOT the preferred place for canines to masticate, he has settled for just outside the back door. Being the time of year that it is, the little finches & waxeyes come down to pick at the marrow & meat shreds left on these bones.

Herself saw an extremely cunning cat at work. What you do, is sit just inside the cat door, which is in the back door, with your nose just poking discreetly through & quietly wait. Sooner or later a poor starving little unsuspecting Finch will come down for a feed.. BAMMMM. Goodbye Mr Finch. Wicked little bitches that they be....

Well, this time next week we will be seated & anxiously awaiting the arrival on stage of The Frames. As you may recall from an earlier post, they are the opening act for Bob Dylan. I have seen on the Herald web site that there is such a demand for tickets to the Auckland show, that there is another concert booked for a Sunday, two weeks later. At the ticket prices, I think once will be sufficient for me. Rest assured that you will get a comprehensive review after the event..

later