cat shenanigans

[dragonlady7]

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so last night i let the cat out into the yard for a little bit, after dinner, because she asked politely. she’s crepuscular, she likes to creep at creeping time (that’s what we etymologize ‘crepuscular’ to in this household, that it’s about creeping), and it was normal.

but then i was sitting in the living room, not on the porch where the open door is, so I did not notice if she came back in.

Come time to go to bed, I could not tell whether she were in the house or not. We called around, made Dinner Noises, and she did not come out. We went around the yard in the dark calling to her but she did not come out.

So we went to bed with the door propped open, which we rarely ever do, but we were both so tired.

Normally I’ll wake sometime in the night and hear the cat and drag myself out of bed and go shut the door, but I didn’t hear her at any point in the night.

FInally I woke up at 3:45 and could not sleep any longer. All I could think about was the cat, and wondering where she was. So I gave up and got out of bed a bit after 4, and wandered as quietly as I could around the house, checking all the doors. No sign of her.

I went and sat on the couch and about ten minutes later she came in all purring and sat on me for a few minutes. I sniffed her fur, and it smelled of the cardboard-smell of our unfinished attic. She hadn’t been outside at all, she’d been upstairs the entire time.

Of course now I can’t go back to bed but like. What an asshole. I’m glad she’s all right

Oh, I never told the story of yesterday– so on Wednesday we took the cat to the vet and I had to haul the mattress off our bed to get her? and I noticed there were a lot of socks under there? Dude had said he’d help me but then he clearly was not going to, so I got a broom yesterday and hauled out all the stuff under the bed, and sure enough, there were like a thousand socks under there….

and no two were the same. Yup! She had collected an enormous number of single socks under the bed.

I mean like…. an enormous number. I did not take a photo, but I should have. I collected everything into a laundry basket, took it outside, beat the lint off, and then washed it all, and it was an entire washing machine load. Of socks, plus two t-shirts, two pairs of shorts, a pair of work pants from my waitressing job in 2005, and several pairs of underpants.

Chita probably disappeared to the attic to cope with my having destroyed her best nesting spot. It serves me right.

Comments

[minoanmiss]

oh CAT *laughs helplessly*

[dragonlady7]

she is the Worst and also the best and I love her 😍