Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
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Black Looks From The Black Cat
by admin - 19:01 on 12 March 2013
Pandora may be the scourge of rodentkind but she's nowhere near being the boss inside The Rural Retreat.
Picture a quiet afternoon in The Kittenery: Maia and Willow sleeping peaceably on the sofabed after being fed by their personal attendant who's returned to the Mac and work on The Mystery Project. Enter Pandora.
Our bigger kitten, clearly at loose ends after patrolling the garden, took a good look around and decided that if here was where the inaction was, she wanted to join in. Her usual spot is on the desk, beside the Mac, but instead she hopped up on to the sofabed and prepared to settle down in the more-than-adequate space between snoozing felines.
Maia thought otherwise. The big black bully cuffed her, pinned her and glared at her until the traumatised tabby slunk away and settled on the floor, just outside the room, where she could gaze in like a penniless Victorian urchin on the wrong side of a sweetshop window. Willow just yawned and returned to sleep.
I did attempt to entice poor Pandora back inside, where she could have chosen from the desk or my lap, but more black looks from the sofabed were too much to bear. I suspect that voles won't sleep easily tonight.
How can anyone bully such an innocent puss?
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