Tha Katz

21Nov11

Cats are mad feline creatures. In general, cats are awful, awful things: evil, overly independent, users – like most men! Wha??! However over the past five years our family has had 3 fantastic cats, the death of the one before has prompted us to get a new one, hence the fact that we’ve been through three of them in the past five years: this might be a slightly worrying fact. Growing up we never had animals in our house until I won a pair o’ goldfish at a fair: Mo & Joe, then had a rabbit: Flips, but dogs and cats were just not allowed. So one day when our family was forced to take on a black, runt, male kitten because a certain sibling chased away it’s mother through water pistol torture methods; it was a joyous occasion.

James: *I couldn’t find a picture of this particular cat so instead here’s a picture of me as a baby, acting like a 4 legged creature.* 

Also known as Tommy, Kitty and Keekee depending on which family member was addressing him. He was a beautiful, slinky, tiny black cat who was extremely shy and very much bullied on our street when he went galavanting. He didn’t like to be held much but needless to say I enjoyed doing so. Late at night one could hear him getting up to all sorts of hi-jinks with other cats: read being raped by “Hector” – the street’s gigantic tom-cat and local cat bully. I can imagine it was something reminiscent of the attack scenes in Shawshank Redemption by “The Sisters”…James even caught the mange at one point in his life following many late-nite fights with Hector and there was talk of him being put-down but he recovered eventually.

Poor James was a weak cat and after two-three years with us he disappeared, seemingly he went off to die somewhere, the poor little crater. Sooooo after the grieving period we took in a fluff ball of delight and mayhem…

 

Chewy: 

Chewy was named after Chewbacca because she looked like that lad from that film Harry And The Hendersons Star Wars. She was a mad yolk altogether and made herself known to the neighbours by jumping into a house on the street and exploring it at her ease. She also made great friends and enemies with a neighbours group o’ cats (a clowder o’ cats, fyi!) by regular going for her feeds in their owners gaf and proving to be quite a handful when they attempted to remove her from the premises. She died in a most tragic way when she went off up galavanting to a near-by main road where she was run over. Naturally, I strongly dislike cats but I was sad to see this one go – she was tremendous fun and great craic!

 

Lori: 

Lori was named after the car, Delorean. She was also a rescue cat and unlike the other two before her she is extremely friendly and loves attention. Unfortunately, following her settling in period she took to our streets and scared the shite out of one of our neighbours, with a fear of cats, when she was found lying on a bed in their spare room. The neighbours managed to get her to jump out the window and on to their porch roof which she could not get down from so she sang quite loudly up there for a large portion of the afternoon until another neighbour climbed up and fetched her. She hasn’t been up to very much since, what might have been a traumatic event, so much so that it is suspected that she has become agoraphobic. She doesn’t leave her bed very often and as a result she has put on a severe amount of weight; currently weighing aproximately 8kgs, to put that into perspective that is 2kgs less than the amount you are allowed to carry onto a plane. The fatness has only made her cuter, it must be noted.

In conclusion: Cats are not very nice but if you happen to end up owning one for whatever reason you might find that you will find them quite entertaining. The following video is very delightful indeed, please enjoy!

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