Excitement on the Three Cats Ranch

Good afternoon.  Smitty here with an impurrtant news flash for you.

So here's what happened.

Me and the Fam, you know, my mom, dad, and Gracie were outside enjoying the sunshine.  Gracie discovered the new crop of catnip that just started growing.  Gracie and I like our catnip almost as much as we like our cat food.

And we were checking out the birds.  I like birds too.  This here guy is a Northern Flicker.  They are big birds.  My mom says they like the suet she puts out for them.

And we were sniffing around the daffodils too.

And I'm just kind of minding my own business, when

Holy Moley!

It's that cat Gracie told me about!  Uno!

There used to be a superhero cat that lived here at the Three Cats Ranch whose name was Captain Cattastic.  Captain Cattastic hated Uno.  Gracie says Uno was the Captain's Evil Nemesis, and whoa!  I can see why.  That's one big cat!  Well, don't you know that got my back furs standing on end.

And I put on my sneakiest, sneak 'em up feet, and started the sneaky, eeky, crawl toward that big bruiser.

I was stretching myself out as stretchy as I could go, trying to get my nose closer for a sniff, but keeping my feet far away for leaping.  Just in case he got all scaredy cat on me, and I had to chase him down, you know.

And he just kept looking at me, and looking sort of bored.  Like he wasn't scared or anything.  And I'm pretty tough, so I just think that cat must be a little touched in the head, you know?

And I crept up closer...

And closer...

And then that cat started talking trash to me.  Can you imagine?  That takes some whiskers, I'll tell you.

And then he just stretched out his arms and settled into the grass, like he doesn't have a care in the world!

And I got up real close and sniffed his toes, just to check out what kind of job he does on his toe jam, you know?  Because any cat worth anything knows to keep his toe jam in check.

And, "Hey," I says.  This guy doesn't seem so bad.  And he definitely passes the toe jam test.  So me, nice guy that I am, I invited him up onto the patio to have a little nip with me.  Mmmmmmmmm.  Nip.  I loves me my nip.

So I'll share it with him as a sort of welcome to the neighborhood kind of thing.

Snorfle, snuff, nomb.  Unless I eat it all first.