Our homestead has been home to quite a few cats over the years. All of them have been unique and wonderful creatures, more than a few of them have been extra special, and one of them I'm pretty sure was my familiar. But that's a post for another day.
Meatball though, he's in a class of his own.
Never did I have an inkling as I picked him out of the litter at my mom's last summer that he would be the epitome of FAFO.
To start with, I know that most cats live in their own realm according to their own rules, the chaotic neutral of alignments. Cats care not about what humans think.
That said, Meatball takes this cat alignment thing to another level. He seems to be the maximum combination of bon vivant and outright mischief.
All in this sort of slow motion timeline of existence.
Like this morning for instance. My corgi was just minding her own business and sitting by the woodstove. The hubs, various members of the cat clan, and our two doggos were enjoying our morning coffee time when Meatball got up from lounging on the back of the couch, hopped down, strolled over towards Cora like a Regency rake promenading with the ton and then he just jumped onto her back. Just because.
Last night was another instance, I keep my used coffee grounds in a little bowl next to the coffee pot. When the bowl is full, I go dump the grounds on my flower beds. Well, I was standing there washing a few dishes when I heard a meow behind me. Meatball was just sitting there on his haunches staring into my soul. I've been stared at by lots of creatures, but there is just something unnerving about the way this cat looks at you, almost like he can see my source code and wants to bat it or something.
Anyway, I politely told him there was no tuna juice or treats for one of his kind at the moment, to which he replied in a most whatever meow tone. I turned away from his leering and went back to rinsing some of the three hundred coffee cups the bruhs had used after one of their ice bath sessions. Suddenly, something smacked to the floor on my left and I felt granules of stuff pepper my slippers.
Meatball had walked up to the counter, jumped up just enough to hook the bowl with his paw, and spilled it onto the floor.
Me, I am not a big fan of injustice, and I think that cleaning up something's mess when I am right in the middle of cleaning up something else's mess, both messes of which I had nothing to do with making, is the height of injustice.
So I took the only natural and right course, one of righteous retribution, I sprayed the evil behaving entity with holy, er, I mean lavender hydrosol water.
(The bruhs were beyond forgiven for their excess Kat chore slight because they ran all my garbage to the dump, bless them).
Meatball, he reacts like all creatures of the chaos do when hit with the sweet, cleansing jet of lavender hydrosol water, and bolted like a cartoon character.
His antics as of late, really as of since I have became his keeper, have been very thought-provoking though. His great grandmother is the cat that I'm pretty sure has been trying to kill me for years via body placement at the most opportune moment. Perhaps this cat, from her genetic line, is upping the ante by being more open about it.
He's such a good snuggler though...
😂😂 where do I begin? Lots to say but little knowledge of how to put it all in writing. In generality, I imagined very finely, thanks to your writing finesse.
He sure deserved that, I stand in solidarity with you against Injustice. 😆
Kudos!
Solidarity Against the Meatball Directive! LOL!
!PIZZA
Is this on par with the cat who wanted breakfast before 7AM and was pissed I was feeding myself before him, so he jumped up on the windows seat, looked at me and pushed the snake plant onto the floor?
Needless to say, he got yelled at, hissed at (he hates that), and his breakfast wasn’t until I had cleaned up the mess AND finished my breakfast, around 7:30.
You'd think they'd get a clue at some point that vexing the hands that feed them always results in a negative output. That said, your floof went above and beyond the call of entitled pestering duty with that foul action of his 😆
!PIZZA
Yup!
Hahaha
The part that cracked me up was cleaning one mess and another one shows up. It can be really crazy, lol
Your cat looks beautiful though
I told Meatball you thought he was beautiful, I think he appreciated the compliment, but one can never tell with cats lol!
Thanks so much for the kind words and for stopping by!
!PIZZA
$PIZZA slices delivered:
@generikat(1/15) tipped @goldenoakfarm
generikat tipped uchelee
generikat tipped rafzat
😎
Oooh, thanks to you, I have lavender hydrosol spray, and somebody who claws the furniture may be introduced to it if I can get there quickly enough!