A Cat's Life

      Having acquired three regular humans plus two occasional stand-by humans and a duplex home, life was beginning to look up ...

      Awaking at a normal cat hour of midnight and finding myself in a strange closet, I naturally cried out vigorously to let my humans know where I was and Rolly respected this ...

      As everyone knows, a great deal of life is simply licking oneself all over---and I mean all over ...

      Then there was the time I was up tree in the middle of the night and Rolly got up on a ladder to get me down. I was fine you understand. I could have climbed down any time I wanted to. But Rolly and Beth were worried, and so I had to indulge them ...

      Napping and prowling, prowling and napping: same old, same old ...

      Then I brought them this dead mouse and do you think they were appreciative ...

      Being a cat means that one has to take a lot of human irony: ``We live to serve you Tids.''---or how about ``Holy felonious felines, Batman, it's the Tidster''---well who else were they expecting? Of course, some things were nice: ``Tids is a fine, fine cat.'' ...

      Well into my middle years, I learnt how to sing. In the mornings at 5 or 6, I would sing my little morning song: Yeooowwwll, Yeoowll, YeeEEEOOOWWWWWLLLLL ...

      Hmm. Not bad. But I think my picture in the other math textbook brought out more of my je-ne-sais-quoi ...

      I thought I was going to make it when I jumped out of the second-floor window. Gram was sure surprised when she saw me sailing down ...

      Spring 2006 and 20 years old, the oldest cat in Port, and I look the same as ever, but I like help up onto the beds now ...

      In my later days, I just like to curl up on the laps of my humans and dream of green fields ...

                                                                 Tids
                                                                 2006 November 20

Tids

And think of her as living,
In the hearts of those she touched,
For nothing loved is ever lost,
And she was loved so much.

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