2005 Story Set
| Date: Nov 14, 2005 Sitting in my near-empty house (a TV and a folding camping chair and in the other room - my old bed are left) -- last night --- I was watching Little Bit (outdoors since LAST October - 2004 - when John went in for the fatal chemo). She was meowing at Ranger who was yowling back. They play this annoying game a lot. She comes in the house - about 2 feet - and runs back out. Humans are not allowed to touch her. But you must feed her. I don't put out water - but she knows where it is for the dog. I had been debating calling Furry Friends to get a trap set for months. She comes in the door tonight --- 1-2 feet --- and wanders back out. If I so much as twitch - she runs off. I can clear my throat, shift in the chair, swing my foot, raise my hand. Poof! ALL DAY I was opening the door - chasing Ranger off the open door and watching her dance in and out. Occasionally I would shut the door and ignore her for a bit. Loading the truck (down to bits and bobs) was fun. She would run up, I would step out, she would run off. Fast little sucker. Now I sat and waited. All the time in the world. She came in ---- out --- and then came in and ran down the side wall near me --- I must have breathed - out she danced. (She is thin, trim, and smaller than Ranger, a big poof-ball.) Then - she blew it - she pranced in to the OTHER wall across the room to nuzzle Ranger and I dove for the sliding door. HA!!! She went BEZERK!!! She tried to claw the glass door open. ha ha ha ha ha. THERE IS NO PLACE TO HIDE - save the seat of the bar stools I fetched back from storage. So I chased her about - then - when she slunk down mewing at me - I pet her and walked away. Drove her NUTS. I did this a few times. This morning - ha ha - I CAUGHT her on the stool and shoved her into her carrier - which I have reinforced with packing tape. Lots of. Wail, piss and moan. Ranger - alert to this activity - went bonkers - but was also easily caught (The sight of his carrier makes him hide. Hates baths too.) I have to go into the bathroom and close the door before dumping him butt-end first into the cage. Ranger has been flopping on his back and dragging himself on the carpet with his claws for days. Oh ho. So ---- I got gas for the drive to San Diego - got their claws trimmed (both of them) and headed for the vet for transfer papers, grabbed a Starbucks, and hit the road by 10AM. I had asked the vet - how to shut up the cats - which had now yowled and meowed for an HOUR. They are riding in the passenger seat. My plan to sit cages in a litter pan didn't work - so I put garbage bags on the seat as a new slip cover. They are stacked. And belted in.) I didn't have time to wait for an appt and a tranquilizer. Fortunately - they shut up after an hour or two. Probably the radio on full volume and the window open. I go back for the dog Wednesday. House cleaners already on the way in. My contractor called when I was heading out of LA. This trip was to carry John's Silver Dragon (still in its packing box - he was saving it for San Diego) and his art things. Misc stuff. Full load. No room for dog carrier. Trim spends all day running from window to window - no curtains - going to paint. I will dress house after painting. Why I need drapery!!!! (Well, one reason.) PEEPING TOM DOG. Cats - who woke up every stop I made for coffee and gas - are in the small downstairs bathroom in San Deigo. Tomorrow I must rehang doors. And fetch some new ones. Can't let them get out down here although I haven't heard the coyotes howl lately. We also have Bobcats, Eagles, rattlesnakes. I live on a canyon. Ranger hissed and spit - tried to open the bathroom door (he does that). Little Bit stayed in her carrier. Funny to drive watching sleepy cats bouncing heads like those wobble dolls. I will unload car tomorrow - see about new doors or hang old ones. I do not sleep with cats!!! |
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