It's been crash-bang-thump most of the night here too.  The reason
is it's been so windy for so long the cats can't go outside to play
much.  Ollie and Courtney are only seven months old so they have a
lot of teenage energy to burn off.

The last few nights it's been so bad that Courtney has snuck up to
me on the bed and whacked me on the nose to tell me to turn the
wind off.  Courtney seems to have decided that noses are hoomins'
call buttons.

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Whenever the Fabulous Furballs seem to be getting out of hand I shout "Put a
sock in it the pair of you!" which causes them to immediately stop and give
me a look that says "Who are you yelling at? The fighting cats? But we are
not the cats you are looking for. Us? Fight? The very idea!"

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Any idea how the betting was going?

Tis Spring, and the sap is rising and so is the fur.  I bear the scars of
several fights over the pillows beneath my head.  It is time to sort out the
hierarchy in the clowder and each one wants to be higher in the chain then
the other ones.  In our clowder, QC is the top of the feline chain and Qui
Gun Kit is the only one either brave enough or stupid enough to challenge
her.  The bottom places are set.  Wamsee is the lowest on the ladder
followed by Miss Calico Girl, Tanada, Sonya, Huey, then there is a struggle
for the middle positions between Merlin and Qui Gun Kit, then Pine Cone and
QC.  Merlin is a bully.  He doesn't seem to realize that taking his
positions depends on defeating Qui Gun.  Instead he beats up the four below
him (Tanada is the only one to challenge Wamsee.  This makes me wonder if my
once brave and fearless huntress of the bird has lost her cookies) and
thinks that makes him better than Qui Gun, who goes to QC for TLC like a
little kit, and takes on Pine Cone, if he feels it is necessary.  Pine Cone
ignores the fighting for the most part, except with Qui Gun Kit forces him
into a fight.  It isn't often that we get a fight, but when we do, I swear
the other cats come running with cash in paw to take bets on the outcome.
For all their posturing, there really isn't that much difference in the
social positions of the felines.

Pam S.

LOL!  When Sammy and Demi have a tiff, and everybody else comes running to
see what's happening, it always reminds me of kids in a schoolyard who race
towards the scuffle yelling, "Fight, fight!"

Purrs for peace to reign soon.

Hugs,

CatNipped