The week that was …

The harness has not made a reappearance … yet … but Kaz said the other day that when I fall asleep we’ll try it again. She hasn’t yet but that could be because I haven’t slept since then … except where she can’t get to me … like in the window seat Aunty An brought for me, or under the bed, or now that I’ve worked out how to make sure Sooz and Kaz lock themselves in their bedroom at night, in the living room but only when I’m sure they’re asleep and not likely to come out and catch me.

Uncle Chris was here earlier this week and was kind enough to leave the toilet unattended . Hmmm … toilet water … and lots and lots and lots (and then some) of toilet paper.

Oh … the harness …

I’m not sure why that Kaz keeps trying to put that thing on me – she calls it a harness and every time I look around there she is with it. I open my eyes from a nap – there she is; I finish eating – there she is; she gets the stringy- thing – there’s the harness. You can’t miss it because it’s pink, and huge and itchy and scratchy and sharp and smelly – well … it is pink. She keeps saying something about once I put it on, I can go outside. That would be good because at this point it doesn’t seem like they’re going to have my cat run on the back deck ready in the next little while.
And what is this about Dzambo coming to visit? I’ve heard about him … and smell him on Sooz every time she comes home from The Academy – he lived here once … and left some of his toys here too … and no he’s not getting that mouse back! His mother’s going overseas for a couple of weeks and she asked if he could come and stay here. It will be fun they say. I hope so – and the good thing is Sooz and Kaz are often right (but don’t tell them I told you so!)

I can see …

I can see! I can see! Or should that be: I can see clearly now. The Elizabethan Collar is off and the stitches have been removed – none of them by me! Who had a chance the way Kaz and Sooz kept watching me all the time? But it is so good to have that “cone of shame” (as Sooz kept calling it) off. Kaz wanted to call it the “cone of silence” but the way I kept bumping into things with it on, that truly would have been a misnomer. And, even better, normal activities have resumed – which means the stringy-thing has been removed from its hiding place and we’re having great games with it again! We aren’t playing with it loudly while Sooz is asleep though … that would be bad! l’m already in trouble for playing with cables (it doesn’t seem to matter when!) and they have taken to locking me out of the bedroom at night. I’m not allowed in the office at all – and the toilet is verboten – which I gather means I can’t go in there either. Geez – you chew up four rolls of toilet paper just that one time …!
Kaz went off to see a cat riding a skateboard the other day … I hope it hasn’t given her any ideas because surely they know by now that I’m the one who’s been training them! Aunty Mejrem had her photograph taken with the ”Cat Whispering man”. Hmmm.

Believe it … or not!

I’m sometimes not sure whether to believe Kaz or not. Let’s take you into the laundry – it’ll be fun she said – just before she locked me in there for the better part of an hour while they had a visitor. Ok, so I now know that was Aiden the plumber and they wanted me safe as he went in and out of the house – but they could have mentioned that beforehand. I would have understood!
I’m not sure about the carnivores thing. Kaz and Sooz had vegetable soup for dinner and Kaz wouldn’t give me any because she said that as a carnivore I should only be eating … Carnie folk – people who work at carnivals or circuses or sideshows – but definitely not their descendants. I’m fairly sure that’s self-preservation on Kaz’s part though so she doesn’t become part of my food chain – her grandfather on her Dad’s side was a Carnie … a Wild West trick rider – and he also had a dancing chicken show. I could be wrong but something tells me the sachets and tins they’ve been giving me aren’t “Carnie in a can”.
I managed to get the collar off for a while today – and spent all the time it was gone just licking and licking and licking and licking – a girl’s got to groom what a girl’s got to groom. I think I blew it when I started licking near my stitches because lickity-split Kaz had me back up on the bed and was strapping me back into that collar. (I’ll be sure to remind her of that at 6 o’clock in the morning!)
l’m enjoying the washing basket and doing stretching out in it in the sun – well, not exactly, but in front of the window in the bedroom in the sun.