Katie Doyle, Girl About Town

Thursday, Jul. 15, 2004 - 9:05 p.m.

The sweet, pretty, soft, fluffy, purring, mrowing, oft-times loving little kitty I have brought into my home and bought millions of toys for and specially-formulated, super-healthy cat food for, who rubs up against me and gives me kitty kisses and talks to me all the time, who woke me up this morning to very politely say just once "my bowl is empty, please refill it"?

That cat is a brutal, vicious, blood-thirsty killer.

She sits motionlessly outside for hours, nothing moving but whiskers and the occasional barely perceptible flick of an ear, and just waits for some hapless little lizard to venture out into the day. At which point she leaps onto the thing, grabs it in her mouth, and carries it inside to the hardwood floor, where she proceeds to take advantage of the fact they can't move as quickly, on account of the floor being kinda slick, and she bats them around until they die from fright or the brutality. Then she comes and meows at us to do something with the shattered remains.

I personally think she's gloating.

Of course, she only actually comes and gets us if she feels like issuing a warning. Otherwise, she leaves the carcasses in the middle of a walkway. And while I have no love of lizards, almost stepping on their soft little lizard bodies is a really gross thing, especially if one is barefoot. I mean, have you ever stepped on a lizard? They go squish, my friends.

It isn't pretty.

I'm not even going to address the subject of lizard tails and bits of them, the little bloody stumps lying there, just waiting for you to come across one unawares. That is a subject best unaddressed, lest you have dreams about it in which you get up for a drink of water in the middle of the night and step on one in your bare feet. The texture, the wetness, the disgusting realization of what has just happened.

Yeah. Better left unsaid.

Work was much better today; only one stupid debate, about color. And I got the yummy egg salad. :) And then this came in email today, and I think it's hilarious. I should put the same notice on my own website. :)

Peace out,
Katie

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