Rude Awakening

And I am not referring to that stupid fat pig who runs the breakfast show on an unnamed old people radio station in Joburg...

This morning I was dragged out of my peaceful sleep by a sharp pain in my left shoulder. When I opened my eyes and realised what was going on, it was a little black cat purrrring away on my shoulder. I threw him across the bed as I tried to get back to sleep again, but then he came and slept right against my back, but above the duvet, so I was half open the rest of the morning....

Tonight I am locking him in the spare room.

Its the mouse thing again

Yesterday afternoon I fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV. When I woke up, I woke up to a dead mouse in the middle of the room. Again I was horrified, because I felt how the cat was playing with it while I was asleep and I thought he was just playing around. I went to get some paper to pick it up with, and as I am taking it to the toilet to flush it, I found it is still moving. I look closer and it is panting furiously and is in absolute shock and lying dead still. I did not know what to do with myself. Admittedly I did give the cat a little kick as I walked past him and then put the mouse in the garden. I know he was going to die anyway, but there is no reason why he cant die in a nice garden without being tortured to death. Needless to say this morning when we woke up, the mouse was lying in our room, now dead.

Again. I KNOW CATS CATCH MICE!!!! I am not stupid. I just don't understand why they have to torture them and play with them. Catch it, kill it and eat it or get rid of it. I wonder how the cat would feel if it had to be caught by a human, and let go, only to get slammed down with claws as soon as it starts running thinking it is free. Its sick. Cats are evil. And torturing another animal is not natural. In the human world you can get killed for that, why do we accept it in the animal world?

One thing is for sure, the cats are not winning any favour from me. In fact they are alienating me more.

Cats vs. Me

On Sunday night, I finally got revenge for the mouse that Tefnut killed a few days ago. I was busy in the lounge and heard a cat in the passage growling. When I got up to go have a look at what was going on, I saw Khensu with a mouse in his mouth, trying to intimidate Tefnut, who clearly wanted to steal it from him. I started to chase him around to take the mouse away, but he ran into the spare room. There we played a little game of me chasing him, and him chasing the still alive mouse. It was torment on the mouse. Eventually I cornered him and the mouse ran between my legs and away, and he could not get to the mouse in time. I felt great!!! I saved the mouse that I could not save previously when Tefnut played with it and killed it in the neighbours garden.

Later that day Tristan messaged me that he had to take a dead mouse away from Khensu, and later in the day he had to take a second one away. So he clearly got me back.....TWICE!!!!!!!

Why I dont like cats

This morning our female cat, Tefnut, just strengthened my dislike of cats. I must however admit that I have grown very VERY fond of our two, but in general do not like cats. Tefnut decided to bring her latest toy into the house this morning. She was carrying a mouse in her mouth and tried to hide behind a couch with it. I spotted her and shouted at her to take it outside, and she promptly did. Then I saw her about 20 min later in the alley, playing with the mouse. At first I thought it was ok, a little gross but ok. Until I realised the mouse was still alive and trying desperately to get away. I tried to get the mouse away from her, but she would just grab it and actually growl at me. She ran into the neighbours garden where I could not get to her and continued her torture of the mouse. The poor mouse thought he had struck a lucky break a few times, when she let him go and made him believe he is free to run away. Clearly traumatised and disorientated, he tried to burrow into a rock, only to be picked up by Tefnut, lying on her back and pretending he is a ball of string.

It was the most barbaric thing I have ever seen, and I will not be friends with her for a long time. I have told Tristan to find her a new home, coz i do not want murderers in our house.

As for those "cat people" who are sitting at home reading this and telling me how "natural" it is and it is "natures way"....BULLSHIT!!! You are all trying to justify your own macabre adoration of these brutal acts, and should be ashamed of yourselves. Just because it is in their nature, doesn't mean it cant be beaten out of them, and doesn't mean we have to laugh at it and think it is cute!!!1

The cats

So every morning I have to wake up to the cats walking on my face and purring in my face and kneading my chest. And when I say morning, I mean between 04:00 and 05:00 AM!!!! This morning I had enough of this, and tried to push him (Khensu) off. He however had other plans and kept on coming back, bless hiss little soul, and in the fight he got pushed off the bed, but decided to hold on. Enter the scratch on my finger. It hurt like hell and I flung him across the bed. True to form though, he was back in 5 min purring and curling up in my arms. F-ing cat!!!