Laugh. Learn. Love cats.
Whoever makes these days up made up a doozy when they came up with National Ask Your Cat’s Question Day. Ashton just has one question:
Ashton: Where’s the chicken?
Pierre: Beef.
Ashton: What about beef?
Pierre: The saying is “Where’s the beef?”
Ashton: Holy cat, Pierre! Haven’t you been paying attention all the time? Chicken emporium? Hello?
Pierre: That’s more than one question.
Ashton: Oh, never mind. I’ll wait and ask the head peep.
How many of you kitties wait for your humans at the door when they get home? Newton sometimes does that, but Ashton never does. She learned a long time ago that the head peep often walks in carrying shopping bags or has a bulky purse that frightens her, so she waits patiently on her spot in the sunroom sofa for the head peep to come in and say hello.
We and the cats who came before us have pressed a deep indentation into the cushion of the sofa back that no amount of humans plumping the cushion will ever remove. They tried. The deep, nest-like sides of this favorite sleeping spot make it that much more comfortable.
When the head peep walked in to say hello to Ashton the other day and didn’t see here there, she was surprised at first that her prized napping spot was empty of anything except a whole lot of cat hair.
Then the head peep realized that the indentation on the back of the sofa wasn’t quite as indented as it usually was. It looked like someone had shoved a pillow under the sofa cover.
She picked up the edge of the sofa cushion and peered underneath, and two green eyes blinked back at her.
If only someone had been around to record the moment when Ashton tried to sit in her usual spot and discovered it was occupied by something moving underneath the sofa cover!
Making a thoroughly annoyed face at being disturbed, Pierre emerged from his hiding place.
At least Ashton could have it back now.
Newton: Some of you who follow the head peep on social media may have heard that she hurt hurt her back last week. (It’s getting better, don’t worry!) Once she got out of denial, she realized she had to do something really nice for us since we weren’t getting as much attention, so she got out the heating pad. Then she turned away for just long enough.
Pierre: Wait a minute! I don’t think she put that there for you, Newton!
Newton: Well she may not have done it for YOU, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t for me.
Newton: Snooze, you lose! And speaking of snoozing, you’ll have to excuse me…
