May 30, 2015

Wherein You Learn of the Five Baby Orphaned Kittens



Birds singing love songs from tree to tree. Boys out walking their Woofer dogs through the woods. Every one of US on the porch, napping.
Kitties don't know huge dog threat from anything, but Belle does. So do the 50 Canadian geese having a lazy day on the lake. Belle and I woke up at the sound of the barking and goose-type danger screeches and she headed inside but had to pass all five sleeping kittens to get through the door. 
"The best thing to do," she thought, "is to wake them with a loud warning hiss." It worked for sure. Five startled kittens jumped up from a dead sleep to red-flag-alert mode. "Hiss'" they replied right back to Belle as they bowed their backs in Halloween mode. Then, in one body, they curled back up and returned to dreamland. Belle finally stepped over them on her way to safety.
Quiet again. One little yippie dog out there somewhere. Oh, no. Woofer dogs have attacked yippie dog. Bedlam and mayhem. Maybe Belle was right. Whole neighborhood is barking now. Kittens sleeping.




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