Just thinking of our past moves brings to mind the below illustration I did for a book about a particularly badly behaved farm cat we picked up on one of our moves..
The model for this image is of "Fat, Fat the Cat in the Hat" (as my young son used to call him). He finally left us last summer in the arms of a young family visiting the farm who thought he was a real sweetie....he was an expert at leg rubbing, purring, rolling around, and meowing pitifully and also stealing food, scratching, beating up smaller cats,eating as much as possible, and peeing on all the plants (we learned to always wash the thyme and mint). Still we did miss his ability to catch mice and his jolly nature.
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So funny! I love your description of your cat - ROFL!! I have some cats like that too - in fact if you would like a replacement, I'll be glad to give you one of mine.
:-)
p.s. I will certainly drop by in April - thanks for the invitation.
No thank you...one "Fat" Cat was more than enough!
Did I mention the peeing, scratching, clawing and insistent meowing for even more food?
I have one more story about Fat...my young son rescued and adopted an abandoned baby mouse from under a pile of old wood we were burning, a very cute tiny little mouse mind you.
They were inseparable...he would feed the little bugger and the little creature hung out in his shirt pocket nest inside a napkin. Eventually, he slept in an old aquarium when Will was in school.
One day, we come home to find Fat meowing very loudly on our porch but meowing with his mouth closed. Sticking out of his mouth was a mouse tail....A moving mouse tail.
Get the picture? We quickly checked inside the house (the garage door had been left open and lo' the little tiny pet mouse was missing.
Distraught, my son ran outside to make Fat cough up the "snack" and Fat knowing trouble was coming ran instead under our porch and and crunching consumed the pet mouse.
OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How terrible! What did your son do? Was he terribly upset?
My young son, lost some innocence and grew up a bit that day...mice became critters not pets and Fat, well, he got a new home where his new family allows him to snack right from their plates....some smart cat.
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