So one of my friends asked me where the Christmas Tuxedo cats were??? I created this one this morning for her. I had one for years until she passed away at the age of 16. She was a kitten rescue, and the Cat Welfare Society, made up of senior citizens in New Jersey, was trying to find her and her twin brother a home after they were found scavenging at a dumpster.
I was living in an apartment, working on my master’s degree, in the army, constantly away, and she was the perfect little companion, more like a dog than a cat. She would climb into my then paper sacks and I would go to lift them, and instead of being empty, they would be heavy. She had snuck inside.
She loved to slip under my covers and I’d see an unnatural lump in my bed. I would play mouse with her, and she’d try to catch it while my hand was moving on top and she was trying to get it from under the covers.
She would slide her paw under the bathroom door to get my attention. It always made me laugh.
When I finally had a home and a Lab, she knocked off Christmas balls and batted them across the floor until they hit the wall and broke. I thought my puppy had done it, but then I caught Trixie at it, who truly was full of tricks.
She never climbed on kitchen counters or tables, just on windowsills and on my bookshelves. She loved to ride at the back of my neck when I drove across the country on moves. She hated a cat box, so she rode where she could look out the window most of the time, sometimes on the top of the backseat.
My mother was with me on one of those moves. In the spooky motel where wild things were going on–we even put a chair against the door–the cat jumped on top of my mother, who let out a blood-curdling scream. I thought the wild things were breaking into the motel room! My mother was much scarier than the cat. LOL, I was used to Trixie doing that, and she’d settle down on top of me.
Lots of fun memories.
I’m off to write, getting nearer to the end of Stolen Highland Dreams.
Hope your day is going great and no wild things are wreaking havoc with you!
Terry Spear
“Giving new meaning to the term alpha male where fantasy is reality.”
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