May 23, 2001
Wednesday 12:03 am


Well, here we go again. I had another encounter with a life form not of this house (i.e. a denizen of the forest), and I did not come through it unscathed.

This has happened before. I come home with bit of a red badge, and the Husband and Wife get very concerned. They poke around, apply stinging chemicals, then stuff me into a carrier and cart me off to show me to that "vet" person. So when I came in this morning I decided to apply my cat aloofness and not let on that I had been bloodied.

Of course, that crusty patch on my flank kinda betrayed my ruse. So they cleaned it off, applied the usual chemicals, and made comments like "Eeeuuww! Gross!", then left me alone.

Huh? No carrier? No vet? Okay. So I curled up on the spare bed and relaxed. Until the Husband showed up in the middle of the afternoon and got the cat carrier out of the garage. I'd been lulled into a false sense of security. What a dirty trick.

So I was carted off to see the "vet" person, and after the usual poking and prodding, pills were dispensed, and I was dispatched without ceremony and, now having a shaved butt, without dignity.

So once again I curled up on the spare bed and was left alone. This time for real.