Chapter 23 Act II Scene 1 Tabio and Chocolate Point.

Prologue.

The scent is alive
Of new love abide
The Siamese
Are on their knees
The mixes are
At tens and sixes.

Chocolate Point, a dutiful daughter
Is caught between love and a mixed up bother.
Tabio loves again,
but uncertain to win.

The end not clear,
Breed vs free
Which will persevere?
Together or apart
At least it is a start.

 Scene I  - an alley filled with trash,  next to an orchard

Tabio: How can I go away from here, when my heart is singing her praises?  Oh, trash strewn path, lead me again to where my heart stopped beating.

Enter Daigo and Trashio

Daigo: Tabio! I know that you are here!  I didn't see you leave that party.  You must have snuck out while I wasn't looking.

Trashio: What do you mean?  He surely hightailed it out of there when we saw the son of Chocolate Hurricane. I didn't know Siamese cats could be so big and brawny!

Daigo:  What?  No, that wasn't muscle it was just his costume.  I saw the stuffing fall out of that leopard's costume as he was trying to jump.  I'm not afraid of him!

Trashio: Tabio, I'm yowling now, you have to come home now.  Well, not that our home is anything to look at, or to smell.  But really, now you need to come out and talk some sense! I swear. Tabio has done it again, and went and fallen in love.  I can tell. I saw it the last time with Blackithia.  But really, Tabio, she's a Siamese!  What can you have in common?  I have never even seen a Siamese come near a street cat? What can you be thinking?

Tabio: (speaks softly to himself) She doesn't know that I'm not a Siamese, I'll keep my secret a bit longer

Daigo: Come out Tabio!  I'm adding my voice to Trashes'  We gotta get out of here before the Siams' come out and trash the place.  He's fallen hard this time, Trash.  A dainty paw, blue eyes, large ears, long whiskers, I'm dreaming already. But I'm not falling.  Nope, not me. I'm done with that foolishness.   Tabio, cat it out of there.

Trashio:  Hey Daig.  Lets scat, let's face it Tabs is well hidden and doesn't want to be found.  Maybe the gal has already found out that he's not a Siam and gave him the slip.  I'm not going to search this place, it smells!

Daigo: You're telling me that this place smells?  What's your name again?

Trashio:  Hey, don't be hashing me.  I'm scatting catting and gone.

Daigo: What? Hey, don't leave me here by myself!  I'm afraid of the dark!

Trashio:  Now you tell me.   Tabio, if you are there, then take care, buds.  Don't get caught by the Hurricane.

Exit Trashio and Daigo

Chapter 22 The Street Cats arrive at the Party! Act 1 Scene 6

Daigo: Hey Man, this is cool, As we enter the Siamese make way and let us in!

Trashio: I haven't had this much fun in a long time!  This Siamese party is the best, they have a Yowler Cat Band, and over there, look there is a movie!

Tabio: It's is not a movie! The Humans are putting on a play.  It is an old play, with music, and we cats can see it though that window.  Honestly. Trashio, can't you tell the difference between a window and a TV? Let me remember the name? Yes, West Side Story, about two rival gangs.  There is a boy and a girl from different gangs and they fall in love.   I love it!

Trashio: I haven't been inside a house for ages, you know that!  I just love that Yowler band!  Can I join in?

Tabio:  No, don't do that, your voice will give us away.

Daigo: I'm going to eat. Wow, liver pate on a cracker, stewed pigeons, milk punch,  what a treat!

Tabio: Whoa, look at that lioness! She's beautiful.  Diago go find out her name!

Trashio:  Wait, let me fix you up, old boy.  Here, fluff out the mane, tuck the zipper in. There you go.

Tabio: Let me talk to her.  Roar, There, now she knows that I'm here.  Where are you going, you cute lioness?

Chocolate Point:  I'm on my way to the stewed pigeons, do you want one?

Tabio: Sure, I'll take one, and I'll take you too!

Chocolate Point:  All you lions are the same.  Take and take.

Tabio: Your blue eyes make my heart sing.

Chocolate Point. You say that to all the lionesses, I'm sure.

Tabio: I have never met a lioness like you.  You are the sunrise of my heart.

Chocolate Point:  When the sun rises, the party will be over.

Tabio: But I will be with you every sunrise of your life.

Chocolate Point: But after sunrise comes the sunset,

Tabio: And the sun will always shine in my heart like your eyes, shine in mine.

OChocolate Powder: Chocolate Point!  Come here, your father wants you to meet someone!

Chocolate Point: I have to go, my mother the hostess of the party, calls me to go.

Tabio: Till the sun rises, I'll be here.  Just whisper Tabio and I'll hear you all the days of my life.

Chocolate Powder: NOW!

Chocolate Point. Yes mother, I"m coming! (Tabio, what a strange Siamese name, no matter)

Tabio:  Daigo, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Daigo: Yes, you just hit it off with the daughter of Chocolate Hurricane! You'd better be careful around him,   And here he comes now!  With his bodyguards!

Chocolate Time:  Dad, I'll chase those intruders out.  They obviously don't belong here, there's something not Siamese about them!

Chocolate Hurricane:  I'll not a have a cat fight in my house.  Let them stay.

Chocolate Time:  Let me smell them, no, they have not been groomed for a long time. Let me get my claws into them. grrr

Trashio, Daigo, and Tabio: grr, rwow.

Chocolate Hurricane: Boys Boys,  You can stay, I don't want any browling at the engagement party of my prize daughter, Chocolate Point.

Daigo: Its ok, we were just leaving, thank you for your hospitality, sir.

Trashio, Daigo, and Tabio exit

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List of prior posts:
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http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/chapter-16-chocolate-point-and-tabio.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/04/chapter-17-chocolate-point-and-tabio.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/06/chapter-19-picky-chocolate-points.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/06/chapter-20-tabio-and-friends-choose.html
http://catspreferblondes.blogspot.co.il/2014/09/chapter-21-chocolate-point-gets-read.html

Chapter 21 Chocolate Point gets ready for The Cat Party! Act 1 Scene 5

Chocolate Powder:  Chocolate Point, Aren't you ready yet?

Chocolate Point: Why mother, You know I don't really want to go.

Chocolate Powder: Here it is, you'd better get ready because the guests are beginning to arrive!

Chocolate Point:  Really?  I'm just so, so,

Chocolate Powder:  Please, our family honor is at stake.

Chocolate Point: Oh, so that's why I have to be a lioness?  How boring.  Can I be the tiger?

Chocolate Powder: No, it is all set.  Your father wants to make the announcement at the end of the party that you are going to be mated.

Chocolate Point: So soon? Yes mother.  I know, it is the Siamese Cat way.  I'll be nice and modest as a lioness.  (but she doesn't know that in the wild lionesses are the head of the family! I'll show her!)

Chocolate Powder: Go out there and enjoy yourself. Listen, the music is starting.  That Cat band is really good, they get the right Yowl, in the right place.

Chocolate Point: Mother, really.  That's old folks music.  I'd like to do the Hip Hop.

Chocolate Powder: Get   Out   into   The   Party.  NOW

Chocolate Point: Ok, I'm going.  Roar!  (I'm getting into my character, If I don't like that lion, I'll run away!)

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Chapter 20 Tabio and Friends choose costumes

Act 1 Scene 5

Daigo: Man, why does everything we do always come from the the trash!

Trashio: Hey dude, I'm the expert of finding stuff, do you want to look through the trash?

Tabio: Boys, we've been through this many times, if you keep it up I'll be the only one going to this party and you'll stay outside!

Trashio: Here are the cat costumes I told you all about!  Hey, here's a lion costume, a giraffe, a monkey, a tiger and a peacock.

Daigo: Yes, I'll go like a peacock!

Trashio: And I'll chase you and eat you!

Tabio: Boys!  Now, lets get down to business.  Let me see that lion costume.

Trashio: Hey, you don't want that one, that's not a lion, its a lioness costume. A lion has a Mane.

Tabio: What's the difference?

Trashio: Well, we'll put a mane on it.  Here's some brown yarn. Let's wrap it around. Yup, now it looks like a boy lion.

Daigo: What about Me?

Trashio:  Yes, I like your idea about the peacock.  Nobody will guess that you are a street cat in that!  Go on your back,  Let me get the zipper, whoops, it broke.  I guess that's why they are in the trash.  Beggars can't be choosers!

Tabio: Trash guy, what are you going to wear?

Trashio: Who me?  Ah, well, maybe I'll just go as a street cat.

Tabio:  No, that's the point!  We have to blend in with the party.  The invite says that all the cats will be in costume.  If you don't put on a costume they will know right away and get us all pawed out!

Trashio: So, I'll go as the tiger.  Whoa, this zipper is too long. But the perfume smells wonderful. I wonder who tried it on before me?  Yup, I'm in love with this smell!

Tabio: You always smell dude, what's new about that?  We all ready?  Daigo, put your tail up!

Daigo:  It is up.  This tail is too heavy.

Tabio: Maybe you'll meet a lady peacock and fall in love?

Daigo: Just my luck, I've got a tailache already.

Tabio: Hey Trashio, can you manage with that tiger?  That zipper is soo long!

Trashio: Quiet, and if you don't watch out I'll take off your mane and you'll have to run from all the other toms!

Tabio: Ok, let's stop catting around and get going, what time do we have to be there?

Trashio: Oh, it's not written here. Well, it's after dark, so let's just saunter over.

Trashio, Daigo and Tabio exit.


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Chapter 19 Picky Chocolate Point's costume

Act 1 Scene 4

Chocolate Point: Human, I don't like that costume! It has a cheezy tail, it is too long! The stripes just don't go with my aura! Look at the zipper, it shows!

Chocolate Powder: Now daughter, don't complain so much. This party is being given for you!

Chocolate Point: So that's the Point! I have to look perfect, it's my party.

Chocolate Powder: The Royal Siamese is going to be there,  Maybe we will just not wear costumes.  Why be ashamed of our own fur?

Chocolate Point: No, no, that's the point! We all dress up so we CAN tell each other apart!

Chocolate Powder: Human,  Purr, purr, Please put a different costume on Chocolate Point?

Chocolate Point: Yes, I like that Lioness costume.  can I roar? Wait a minute, wait a minute, my tail is stuck.  Meow! Mom, help me please? Take it off! Rrwar!  That lioness costume is too big, give me the other one!

Chocolate Powder: If you would calm down, then the girl would be able to get everything ready.

Chocolate Point:  Maybe you are right, the point is to be ourselves, but the Lioness costume is soo cute.  I'll try again. Can I have some milk?

Chocolate Powder: Milk?  You haven't drunk milk in the longest time!

Chocolate Point:  It will help calm me down. Please? And throw those costumes that are broken out.  I don't want to see them!

Chocolate Powder: The Party starts in a half hour, so you promise to behave yourself?  Remember that we are counting on you to make the right choice of a mate.  All the eligible Siamese toms will be here soon, and you have to act lady like.

Chocolate Point: No playing in the chocolate powder? It was so much fun last time.  I ended up looking

like a chocolate cat!

Chocolate Powder:  Right.  Not acceptable. For. Tonight.

Chocolate Point:  You know I hate it when she talks like that.  Ok, Lioness suit, here I come! Rwrar!


Chocolate Point, Chocolate Powder and Human girl exit

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Chapter 18 Happy Birthday William Shakespeare!

Happy Birthday William Shakespeare, born April 23 1564, but there is no actual record of his birth, but there is a document dated April 26, 1564 of his baptism of "Gulielmus filius Johannes Shakespere - William son of John Shakespere" - So the birthday is celebrated in Stratford-on-Avon and elsewhere on April 23rd.  I don't know why people are saying that it was April 24th. But as there was no documentation it could have been either date.  I have my dates from my grandmother's 1948 edition of "Shakespeare The Complete Works edited by G.B. Harrison.   Where do you get the other date from?  Wikipedia? 



 So, If you have been following this blog, then you might have guessed that the play Chocolate Point and Tabio is a parody of . . .  

Romeo and Juliet! 

The idea came to me as I was thinking about cultural norms and how even in the modern world there are some people who are prejudiced against other people. 

As we see in the 1600's this problem was very prevalent,  and William Shakespeare made fun of those people in his play "Romeo and Juliet."   Shakespeare was the parody and pun master of his time.  Even now when I read my grandmother's copy of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, I laugh.  My children don't like me to read the plays out loud because of all the puns that they don't understand.  So to keep the playfulness of Shakespeare, and characters that children understand in the modern world, I am writing this lighthearted spoof for you and your family to enjoy. 

 My daughter and I like cats, real ones and stuffed ones, so we started making up stories, and then the idea hit me to write a play. This picture is of a stuffed cat that I didn't buy because the dark part of the fur feels painted on and is not soft to pet.  I will continue to look for a good model for Chocolate Point, and Tabio we are using the real Tab, a Jerusalem stray that sometimes comes to get pet, but even so, he is becoming more and more wild, and if he is with other street cats, he will often choose to stay with them and do wild cat thing, instead of coming with us to get pet. .  It is the life, so now I will only have the stuffed cats to pet.  They don't meow, scratch the furniture, pee in the house, don't have to buy them cat food, or change the litter box.  No matter! I want to pet a real cat every day!!!! 

Check out the next chapter of Chocolate Point and Tabio  sometime next week.   We will be up to Act 1 Scene 4, where the cats try on their costumes for the Party, and then Tabio and his gang crashes the Siamese party.  Will the fur fly?  Wait and see! 

Until then, 

You can go back and read the beginning of the play to refresh yourself with the action: 

Act 1 Scene 1  Act 1 Scene 2  Act 1 Scene 3

Chapter 17 Chocolate Point and Tabio Act 1 Scene 3

The scene opens outside with the Street Cats. They are discussing an interesting piece of paper that Trashio found.  The weather is a bit cold and windy.

Enter Trashio, Daigo and Tabio

Trashio:  Hey guys, look what I found!

Daigo: Ah, you are always in the Trash, Trashio, what so is interesting about a piece of paper anyway. I can't read, so what?

Tabio: Hey let me see that! I used to live in a house where the Human mother used to read to the kids every day, so I got to know a bit of Human writing.

Trashio: Maybe I'll keep it to myself and let you cats keep on wondering!

Tabio: No really, I do know how to read.  Can you please let me see it?

Trashio:  Well, ok, but if you Daigo make one more crack about me finding things, I'll fight you!

Daigo: Rwow,,

Trashio:  Troww  Rgwo

Tabio: Hey you two stop your singing match.  Lets not fight now, I want to see this paper you found Trashio.

Trashio,: Ok, but if you don't want to go I'll go myself!

Tabio: Hey I thought that you didn't know how to read!

Trashio: You find a lot of neat stuff in the trash,  I found a book that teaches how to read, so there!

Tabio: So let me see it already!

Trashio gives the paper to Tabio

Tabio: Wow, now this is interesting, I bet you cats want to go to a party?

Daigo: A party?  Wow, with food and pretty kit kats?  I'm game.

Tabio: Yes, there will be a party at the Human Siamese breeder's place, you know that big mansion, and they are going to choose a male for Chocolate Point, the Siamese girl who just came of age.

Trashio: So what?  A human party.  That's no fun.  They always chase us cats otta that kind of thing.

Tabio: No, wait, there's more, listen to this!  "Please bring your cats dressed up in costume. There will be a cat parade, and the most interesting cat in costume will get a prize!"

Trashio:  Cats in costumes, cat costumes.  Yes!  I know just the place where I saw yesterday a pile of cat costumes just put out in the trash.  Come on guys, we have nothing to lose.  If we wear costumes, then we'll just blend into the party and we can crash it without anyone knowing that we are not Siamese!

Daigo:  Count me in, but make sure these costumes are clean.  I'm not going to go to a party smelling like garbage.

Trashio:  Yeah, I know.  I'm sorry for last time.  It was my fault.

Daigo: Now you tell me.

Tabio: Now boys, no fighting, remember?  We have to find these costumes and be ready for the party.  I wonder if Blackitha will be there? I really miss her.

Daigo: Hey Tabio, stop thinking about the past.  I saw her split. She was picked up by a human and taken away.  She seemed quite pleased at the time.

Tabio:  I didn't know that.  So, she's gone.

Trashio:  So, cheer up Tab, old boy, I bet there will be many other chicks at this party that would love to meet a strong, young male like you.

Tabio:  But she was the love of my life!

Trashio: Can't be helped, this type of thing always happens to us street cats, the humans take us, a car runs over a few, some get stuck in the trash.  Its the fact of life for us in the street, man.  Come on, we have to find those costumes and get ready to crash a party!

Daigo:  Yeah, lets scat cat.

Tabio: You're right Trashio. I'll just have to try to forget her, those eyes so dark and deep, I just wanted to look at her forever. Sigh.

Trashio:  Now Tabio, snap out of it.  We're going to this party to have a bit of fun, remember?
Come on. and stop your mooning.

Daigo: What is taking you two so long.  If you don't start moving I'm going to show you my claws.  I keep them nice and sharp.

Tabio: As we all do, Rwrrrrw

Trashio:  Now, now boys.

Exit Trashio, Daigo and Tabio

End of Scene 3

Previous Posts in Chocolate Point and Tabio:
Act 1 Scene 1 Act 1 Scene 2

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Chapter 16 Chocolate Point and Tabio A Play Act 1 Scene II

Act ! Scene II

Chocolate Powder - (mother of Chocolate Point) Both are Siamese Cats 

My daughter, with those blue eyes, What do you think about getting married? 

Chocolate Point: But Mother, I"m only 6 months old! I'm haven't even reached my full size. 

Chocolate Powder: Yes, my daughter, I see, but as pure bred Siamese, we can't be too careful. We will have to find you another pure-bred Siamese, Blue point for you, the best male cat we can find. 

Chocolate Point: Well, mother, if you think that is best?  But can't I just find a male cat on my own? 

Chocolate Powder: We Siamese are a very special breed of cat, we are descended from the Royal Cats of the Kingdom of Siam, who guarded the Royal Residence.  We have to keep ourselves pure, and only marry other Siamese cats. 

Chocolate Point: But what I I fall in love with a different breed of cat? 

Chocolate Powder, It is not done for our kind.  

Chocolate Point:  But why, Mother? 

Chocolate Powder: We must keep our pedigree, you see.  It is the most important part of our heritage. 

I'll tell you what, Our humans are going to have a party this coming Thursday evening, inviting all of their friends, also to choose a bridegroom for their daughter.  It will be a costume party, so we will have a cat costume party!  That way we can tell all the Siamese apart.  We look so much alike sometimes that even I had trouble telling the boys from the girls when you were all kittens, not so long ago! 

Chocolate Point:  Yes, mother, let's do have a cat costume party! Oh Nurse! Come help me choose a costume! I'm so excited, Mother, 

Chocolate Powder:  That's much better, I had better go choose a costume too! 

Chocolate Point: Thank you mother! 

Exit Chocolate Point and Chocolate Powder. 

End Scene II

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Chapter 15 Chocolate Point and Tabio , A Play, Act 1

I have been persuaded to act in a play that was written by my great-grandfather, Tabspeare.  I'm really named for him, but I go by Tab.  The other cats in the neighborhood would really make fun of my full name. So don't tell them!

The play takes place in a neighborhood near you, the players are all cats of course.
Characters:
Trashio  and Daigo  - two male street cats friends of Tab
Midnight - the Mayor of the neighborhood
Tabio - a love sick street cat
Turner - Tabio's father
Taki-  Tabio's mother
Tibbles  - Turner's brother, uncle to Tabio
Thundr - male cat, best friend of Tabio

Chocolate Hurricane -Siamese cat, Chocolate Point's father
Chocolate Point - a female Siamese cat, daughter of Chocolate Hurricane
Chocolate Powder - Chocolate Point's mother
Chocolate Milk - Chocolate Point's brother

Black paws - female street cat best friend of Chocolate Point
Blackitha- Tab's former girlfriend cat

Act 1 Scene 1
Trashio :  When was the last time you chased a dog Daigo?

Daigo:  Yesterday, you know. they have gotten to be afraid of me.

Trashio: Well, those Siamese are like dogs, a whole clan of them just moved into the neighborhood, they roam all around catching all the mice, then there aren't any left for us.

Daigo: So let me chase them.  They will be out of here in a flash.

Trashio: Those Siamese think that they are the cream of the crop.

Daigo:  Well they are cream color.

Trashio: They hold their tails high, catch all the mice.

Daigo: But they have the kink at the end of their tails.

Trashio: They are so proud.

Daigo: Here comes one now, Chocolate Hurricane,  his tail is so high, I want to fight him!

Trashio: Yes, lets.

The Siamese and the two cats fight.

All the Cats: Rroww, Reeeel , Yowl, YYYYeeeeoool, Growwwl, Yeol, Rroww, Grrrrr!!!

Midnight, the Mayor cat, who is black with white paws and a white chest comes because of the noise of the three fighting cats.

Daigo: Hey here comes the Mayor!

Trashio: Midnight, sir, we were not doing nothing, sir.

Midnight:  Yes, and why are you still growling?  What is this fight about?   You, two tribes, the street cats and the Siamese, are disturbing the peace of our fair neighborhood.   Cat nature is deeper than the color of their fur.

Daigo:  Yes, sir, we will stop now. (I'm not so sure of that, a Siamese, is a pure breed, who hold their tails high)

Trashio:  As long as the Siamese keep to themselves, and we'll not bother them.

Midnight leaves the scene.

Daigo:  Let's scat, oh, I see Tabio, he's still in love with Blackitha, he yowls to the moon to her every night.

Trashio: Well, she split and I haven't seen her for a long time.

Daigo:  Tab is broken hearted. I've never seen him so, hasn't held his tail up for a long time.

Trashio: We should distract him, and go chase some dogs.

Daigo: Yes, you do the chasing and I'll get Tabio.

Exit Trashio, Daigo,

End of Scene 1

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Chapter 14 Trixie Came Back!

Dear Trixie,

Hi, I am so happy that we bumped into each other today.  It really has been a long time, and that I really try to think about it I don't know why we really broke up, maybe it was something I said, but after a while you didn't come around anymore.  Now that I think about it, I was really too young and emotionally stupid.  I should have followed you around more, and made sure that you didn't go away.  For all that, you know, I'm sorry.

 So now you saunter  over to me, and want  things to be like it was before:  I can almost cry when I think of what might have been. . .  Well, sweetie a lot of mice have run that path from then until  now.  I don't think that we can get together again, I'm married and Roxy is expecting kittens any day now.   You are still cute a cut above the rest, can we just be friends, you know hang out now and then, exchange a nose kiss?

 I've trained some humans to look for me whenever they go out and I've got them to pet me.  Now that it is cold, I don't go out that much and I'm taking care of Roxy, catching her some mice, 'cause she's quite big now, she's long haired white, black and beige.  

Now, Trixie,   Yes, now that I see you I realize that I made a big mistake, but that was years ago, and I was a much younger cat.  Yes, young and foolish.  I guess that I'll always be foolish especially when it comes to you.  You look wonderful though.  Don't think too bad of me.  If I had to do  it over again, I would make a different decision, and not let my mom persuade me to go to another neighborhood.  

So, take care of yourself, and drop in once in a while.  

Love, 

Tab. 

Chapter 13 Cats DO have 9 lives

I'm not talking about the Delicious cat food, you know the name, but you know after I got hurt, I just rested for a day, I was hungry, I do admit, but now my leg is all better!  I'm running, jumping but not really fighting anymore.  I think that I'm done with that.  It is too painful!  I feel like I'm a brand new cat! It's like getting a new life. now that I know what it is to have to hop around on three legs, I'm glad I have all four! How can you humans make do with only two? It must be very uncomfortable. I'm just saying.

I don't really like cold weather I have decided.  I can't get out when I see my breath in the morning. what am I supposed to do? Shiver when I try to jump into the trash?  I don't need to.  There are more than enough garbage bags to go though, I prefer to sit in the sun, get my paws warmed up and then start the day.  Why are these humans always vroomming around in those vrumm thingys?  I walk, thank you very much!  Well, now that I have the use of all my four legs, it is much easier!

What?  You like to go places?  Why?  I like to stay right here.

So, hey, give me a pet!   Most cats in Jerusalem have learned not to like you humans. They think that we are dirty and only play in the trash.  In the US it is the squirrel's job to do that and if you are sitting on a park bench, you had better watch out for your sandwich! They will grab it away and run up a tree before you can take another look.  Well, us cats, we don't like sandwiches.  We like tuna, and I have never seen a tuna get up and run, but no matter.  

So we cats provide a real service to humans.  I know of an apartment building that each apartment feeds the cats for a week, and then it goes to the next apartment. This is good for us cats, and it is hard to hunt mice and rats on an empty stomach. You think that I hunt only to eat?  Naaa, I like to hunt for the sport.  Then I eat.  But the chase is the fun part.  You can't have a growly stomach to go get a mouse.  They can hear if your stomach growls, and then they run away and it spoils the fun! 

Soooooo you humans should be nice to us cats, and when I come around, I like to be scratched behind the ears.  Just remember that, OK?  A little milk, or tuna won't hurt either.  

See ya around! Mrow 

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Chapter 12 Life is hard on the streets

Life is hard on the streets, boy, and the other cats don't even care!  I got into a cat fight and well most of the time, I'm pretty good, but I got really hurt this time.  

I can't put my back left leg on the ground, it hurts too much.  That's the problem with having 4 legs, you need all four of them to really jump around and get anywhere. I can jump a bit with only one back leg, but boy does it hurt!    

Oh, here's my favorite blond human!  Here, give me a pet, I really need it. 

Hey cats!  Why don't you help me?  You can't?  Yes, I know, on the streets, it's every cat for himself.  You are all just sitting there having a pow wow without me!  I used to be Alpha Cat! And now I can't even jump up.  

Well, that's the way it goes.  I'm leaving.  You won't have me to scratch around anymore.  I just feel sorry for the humans, I am the only friendly cat in this neighborhood. Hey Blonde,  Don't you want to keep a cat in the house?  Well on second paw, I really like my freedom outdoors.  

Cat ya later. Maybe, 

Tab the Tablet computer cat.  

Don't wait up for me, I'll probably not be back anytime soon! 

Chapter 11 The History of Cats

Well, you Humans have Adam and Eve, but we cats have 5 mothers.  Their names are legendary, Mitzy, Tricksy, Kitty, Mittens and Catty. These are revered names in Cat history.  It all started back in the Middle East maybe even Israel,  We cats are all descended from the African WildCat.  Well we cats are tamed, and not really domesticated, if you get my drift.

 So when you humans started to plant grain, and changing your lifestyle, we changed ours.  Before we lived in the forests, or out on the desert, catching lizards and other small reptiles.

As you know, when you harvest grain, you also attract rodents.  Well, we cats noticed that all the rodents were rushing to eat all this grain.  We cats don't like grain, but we do like mice!  The mice were getting rather fat having the easy life.  At that time, about 10,000 years ago, the mice were having a field day.  So Mitzy, Tricksy, Kitty, Mittens and Catty, followed the mice and started to live near human settlements.   Most of the time the cats came out at night to catch the mice.  At first, the humans chased us away and a few were caught and killed.  After a while though some cats decided that they wanted a good pet.  A scratch behind the ears is always best after breakfast, don't you think?  Well those ancient cats felt the same way.  So a few were brave enough to go to the children and get a good pet.  It is the same way today, you know?  I'm wild, and I come out when I feel like it.  We haven't changed our shapes or let humans grow up too big or too small, like dogs.  There are a lot of cats who don't like humans, that's ok too.  We cats like to sleep where it is warm, and a few of us snuggled up to you humans.  Its an equal relationship, you pet me, I'll keep the rats and mice away.  You give me milk and I get my meat by myself.  Give and take, that's the best!

All domestic cats, yes, even me are directly related to one of the five mothers.  We don't know who the fathers were, but you can be sure that there were more than a few.  

Chapter 10 The Pigeon Show in Jerusalem right after the snow. A cat's view.

There was a pigeon show at the Central Bus station in Jerusalem. This is something that I could really sink my teeth into!   Can we open a cage?  NO? That ruins the fun!  Oh, well, I'll take a look around to see if there is anything interesting here,   There are very weird looking pigeons here! Wow! This one you can't even see where it's head is!  And its feathers look like hair!  Maybe that's where hair originally comes from, feathers.

I think it would be very funny looking if cats had feathers! How does it eat without getting dirty?  How can it fly?  Not that this pigeon ever ever learned to fly.  It sits in a cage all day long! 

This one looks more normal.  but it has a very long neck.  What it is an ugly swan wannabe?  I wonder how it would taste.  Of course the cage is very strong and I won't be able to get in.  But it is fun to dream! 

How would you like to meet this one on the street? How do you do? Oh, you have been living in a cage for a year?  Well I am free, I'm a cat.  Can't you come a little closer pigeon?  No?  You are afraid of me?  Yes, I see how that would be.  I'll go look at other birds now. Bye! 

Look at the tail on that one!  It is the Peacock of the  Pigeons!  Honk, Honk!  You don't say Honk?  Ahh, yes, pigeons coo.  but it is very quiet here.  You  all came from a Moshav?  Which one?  What you don't know! You have to know your address, then how can you ever get back home?  You are not a homing pigeon.  Sorry, I didn't know that.  I thought all pigeons were homing pigeons.  

Hey, Where is your head? Why do you have all those extra feathers?  You don't know?  They just grew there?  Well, at least you can see out! Not like the guy in the cage next door!  

Well, since all the cages are closed, it is not interesting for me here anymore. So I'll go.  I'll just have to dream about the pigeons.  See ya around!  

Tab short for Tablet, the Jerusalem Stray cat near you!