Chapter 6 Cat Fight!

Rrow, grr,  Rrowwww, Gree, Trow!

I'll get you! Hey, White cat, get out of my territoy!  Yes, run, run for your tail!  I'll get you. Humm, there's my humans.  Ok, you can get away today, but I'll get you tomorrow.  Just when you feel safe, I'll jump out from behind the trash and I'll be on your tail!

What?  You didn't know this was my territory?  Well think again, wheat head.  Yes, I'm calling you a wheat head.  You House cat.  Don't come out  here again unless you can claw your way through us Street Cats.  Yes, I know that you have lived here for a while, but I'm top Alpha cat here.  Even though you have long fur it doesn't count in my book.

Well, I gotta go, there's my humans.  I really like the small sized one, she had been trying to play with me with that string, but I don't feel like playing nowadays. It is getting colder and I missed my petting yesterday.  It was Saturday, and the humans in this neighborhood didn't come out yesterday, and there were no vroom things, cars you call them?  It was strange.  I don't make a difference between the days of the week.  What is a week anyway?  You humans are strange.  Yes, I'm calling you strange.  You have to wear things on your bodies to keep warm, and you don't have fur.  Just a bit on the top of your head.  What is the use of that?  In order to keep warm, you have to have it all over.   You don't have a tail or claws to defend yourselves.  Yup, you are strange.

Me?  I'm a cat, I'm perfect, I got claws that I like to sharpen on things.  Wow, here's a suitcase, Just the thing to sharpen my claws.

That's better!  Now where is that Wheat Head?  I feel the need to chase. It gets the blood flowing. There he is, I can smell him! Yup, Rwow, Rowwr, Merow, Whoops, he got away.

I like to run, yes, but only in the mornings.  After that I find a nice place to sleep.  Usually I like to be in the sun, but anyplace where the rain won't fall is good for me.  I hope it won't rain today!

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Chapter 5 Cats play with String

Yes, even us "Wild Cats" play with string!  I will chase anything that moves, and my humans found this green shoelace thing, and when I get tired of being petted, which is not very often, you know, I will play with the string! There it goes again!  Let me catch it!  Ah, that's great.  Can I get it again?  I could do this for hours, well maybe not hours, but it is almost as good as catching a mouse, I can get it over and over.  Mice, well, most of the time, they don't come back for seconds!


When I feel safe enough I'll also give myself a bath.  Usually I don't bother, dirt doesn't show up on me, cause I'm already black and tan, as you can see.  But then the small sized human said that I was dirty so I got down to business!  It is hard to reach all the itchy parts, especially on the neck, so that's what I need humans for!

Whoa!  What is that?  I see a dog!  What is a dog doing in this neighborhood!  I can't take a bath now!  I have to watch that dog.  Oh, it is on a leash.  That's a a long string for dogs.  We cats don't need that sort of things, we come and go as we please.  No, don't even think of putting something on my neck! Rworw!  Hiss.  

Oh, you don't want to pet me now?  Because of a little hiss?  I good now,  no hard feelings.  Hey, put out your fist, I want to pet myself on you?  What you have to do?  But, but but.  Well if you insist.  I'll follow you a bit.  

Humm, what's this?  Little brown bird with a long tail.  Where did you come from?  Nachalelli?  You say, long name for such a little bird.  Whoops, you are too fast for me to catch.  Good riddance. 

Hey, where did the human go?  I'm getting used to these humans.  They are sort of fun to have around.  I'll just have to remember to come out to them on time again tomorrow.  See Ya! 

Chapter 4 - For you my future kitten

If I had kittens, which I do not have right now, I would do things differently than you humans!  I watch you.  I see what you do and I will remember.

There was a mother and a baby who were sitting here one day waiting for one of those big four wheel van things. The little girl was waiting for her ride, and the mother and baby were with her.  Well they were sitting there with her but not really with her, if you get my drift.  The baby wanted attention and kept spitting out the plastic thing that some people keep parked in the baby's mouth, I guess the baby didn't like the taste or something and the baby started to scream. So this is really sad what happened.

I've seen other mothers and babies sit here and usually they play with the baby, sing and generally make a fool of themselves, but no one ever says anything.  It is usually very cute and other people sometimes come and play with the baby too.  Nothing wrong with that.  So anyway, this mother either she is lazy or something or she doesn't like to play so she took out of her purse this screen thing and turned it on and immediately the baby was glued to it.  The mother had it play happy songs, like for kids, you know, kids walking around in a circle, a bunny singing,  and stuff like that. What was the mother doing when the baby was watching the screen?  She was holding the baby, but not paying attention to it at all, she was talking to her friend, about a party that she wanted to give the next Sunday night!

Is this the future generation of humans, being trained to pay attention not to people but to a screen?  Is that what is most important in life?  Well maybe for humans, but not for cats!  No wonder people are rude and don't like to interact with people.  They are trained to look at a screen at a very early age.

That is why when I find humans that don't have this screen thing attached to their faces, I come and meow, they meow back, and I pet them.  They think that they are the ones doing the action, but I know better. There is more to life than screens.  I like to smell all the new smells, catch the occasional mouse and lay in wait for a bird.  Sometimes I get one!

When I have kittens you bet that I will teach them all the basics, like I was taught.  How to run and catch the birds, use my nose to find trouble, and maybe keep out of it, how to catch lizards, and not just the tail part, how to find the best humans to pet me.   You Bet!


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Chapter 3 Three's a good number

I like the number 3.  For three mornings, once I figured out that the humans were getting up later, lazy, lazy, lazy. They let have the day go by without moving!  Why do they do that?

Well, I figured out where my three favorite humans are everyday.  They wait at the roundabout, until some big van comes by.  When it does, I don't know how they know the difference,  all things on four wheels look the same to me!  I always say, when I see them, a big "Mroww, Get out of the way! " So when the right one comes by, two of the smaller ones, get inside, you couldn't catch me inside one of those monsters at any time! And they go off.  That leaves the mature one that sometimes has blond hair, and sometimes a hat, or a scarf, to pet me for a while.  Yesterday they tried to feed me some small yellow square thing, but I don't want food from them,  Just being petted.

I'm getting my winter underfur, and it's harder and harder to get to the itchy spots on my neck, so that's where I  like scratched.  So today I sat on the mature one and didn't let her leave without a nice good long pet.  I had to nip a bit for her to the idea not to move.  That's what humans are for!  Cat petters.  Why else would G-d have humans and cats in the same place.  One has to serve the other.  I am alpha cat and that's the rules.

I think I found out where the blond human lives, but the building is not in my territory.  I can get close but there are some really mean cats at that garbage, so  I can walk her most of the way home.

I hope that they come out tomorrow, so I can have at least some human company  Cat company is not the same,  Mostly we fight over the good pieces of chicken and of course the female cats.  But we don't pet each other and when I see that cat with whom I had that big fight that ended up injuring my eye, I really want to give him a piece of my tail!  Not literally of course, but I really want to unsheath my very sharp claws and show him a thing or two.

Now I'm going to find a nice place in the sun to have a nap, take a bath and then go mousing.  That's what us street cats do.

Catch you later sometime.  "Mrow!"

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Chapter 2 Time change:

What is up with these humans?  I have been here in this neighborhood for a long time, maybe not long enough, but I'm good. And the food comes out from the houses in the morning bit after the sun rises.  It usually is very tasty and the yogurts are fresh, opened, so I don't have to claw through it, and there is enough that if I lick a few I get full.  I stay away from the brown ones, it doesn't taste good to a cat.  Yes, Chocolate is not good for cats.  But I like the chicken on Saturday night even it is a bit dry.  Why don't the humans eat the dry chicken? If feels like it was out all day, and it is stringy, but who cares?  Not me.  I like any leftovers.  But today, what's up?  The people didn't come out until later. I am upset.  I like to get in a yogurt, and then I go off to catch a mouse or two.  I finished off all the lizards in this neighborhood a long time ago.  In the winter they don't move too fast and they are easy.  Unless I get the tail. Those come off, but are still tasty.  Why don't the people come out like usual?  Maybe they all are sick today.

Most people are afraid of me.  I don't know why.  I am a good cat.  You see, it might be because of my eye.  Yes, I can't see well out of my left eye.  You can't see it in the picture, but most people see me and run the other way.   No matter, my motto is not to bother others, and they won't bother me.  Life is easier that way.  Oh, look, here are the humans that like to pet! I'll run over to them, maybe they will pet me!  

"Meow, Meow" I say, they say back "Meow, Meow"  They don't know what they are saying,but I won't tell!  As long as it is not a swear word, it is ok.  

"No, put your hand out and I'll do the petting, Yes, just like that." I kiss with my nose and then run my head up and under.  That's good,  You know a cat needs more than just a good meal in life.  A good pet just warms a body up.  

"No, don't pick me up!  Don't you know that all the other street cats make fun of me when they see you pick me up! Meow, Meow,  Don't worry, I used to be a house cat, I won't scratch., Now lets go for a walk.  Come along human,  let's go this way.  Yes, follow me.  I just like to walk.  No, that's my toilet, stay away from that flower box! Meow, Meow,"  I said.

"Meow. Meow" says the human.  

"I'm not going to tell that you have the accent all wrong.  No cat is ever going to be fooled by that meow, you have to put more higher frequencies in it." I say. 

Where are you going, Human?  Around the building?  well ok.  This is a boring walk, no cars, no mice. Why are we doing this?  Oh, now that we have gone all around the building you want to pet me?  

Rrrow, no way, I have better things to do.   Catch ya later, but when that will be I don't know.  See ya. 

Rrow. 

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