So Many Cats!

Do you have cats? We do. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love the critters, almost all kinds of critters but these cats are driving me nuts! We have four cats. I’ll list our cats in pecking order: Bilbo (you’ll see our nerdy Lord of the Rings obsession come out now), Gandalf the Grey (so nerdy that spell check tried to change his name to Randolph the Grey), Jellybean (you know, that Hobbit standing waaay in the back, the one with big feet), and Suzy...also called Babygirl…’cause she’s the only girl and ‘cause she’s little…I guess.

These cats love each other...then they hate each other, then they groom each other and then they try to kill each other. They are a dysfunctional feline family….to the extreme, to the point of needing counseling. Why do we have so many cats? Because of this book….that’s why.

Both of our boys LOVED this book when they were little. It’s my fault; I loved it too…back when we only had one cat. It wasn’t until we read this book and found out that “our one and only cat (KeeKee) was a sad and lonely cat”….Well, we had to change that and we did….right quick, by adding four more cats. Only thing is…KeeKee wasn’t lonely. He didn’t want brothers or sisters. He didn’t want to share lap time with anyone else. He didn’t want to share his food or water and he REALLY didn’t want to share a cat box. Can’t say I blame him. And you know what else? He didn’t, not once, want to slide down the banister to his awaiting fun-loving kitty family. What was KeeKee? He was pissed! And KeeKee stayed pissed all the way up until he left us. Not as in packed his furry mouse and hit the trail left but as in off to that sunny porch window in the sky left.

Anyway, my lesson learned?….sad and lonely ‘aint always a bad thing.