Skeeter: After the last snowy time, The Big Thing stopped leaving the cave in the dark and returning in the next dark. He just stays here all the time! He says he is Re-Tir-Ed. It has been 6 large moons since he left every day, and LC and I love it.
We get to go outside in the big enclosed place surrounded by the Wall whenever we want, we get wet food earlier, we get to poop outside a lot more (and The Big Thing seems to like that too), we get to watch the birdies and tree-rats a lot closer, and it is so nice to just sleep on the tall grassy plants in the sunlight! And he is outside with us so much.
We follow him around a lot. We don't bother him much unless we wants scratching (which is often), but we always stay near. We feels safe in the enclosed place, but it is even safer near him. Now we can chase those strange kitties that used to sit in our enclosed place and nibble our kitty-crack and eat our mousies!
LC is so weird when she chases a strange kitty. She just bounces at them on all 4 paws and they get so weirded out that they run over the Wall! Then she comes back to The Big Thing with her tail all puffed and high. She only had one that stopped and hissed at her, but I went and helped her. It was so scared after both of us chased it, it actually went right through the Wall! Wow, I can't even get my head into the little spaces in the Wall. I wouldn't even try, because my whiskers tell me not to...
LC: LOL! Skeeter laughs at the way I attack strange kitties in our big enclosed Wall place. But they sure run when I bounce at them! They don't know WHAT is happenning. Well, one of us has to protect our mousies and froggies from strange kitties, so I do. I'm very brave! And I LIKE being very brave. Skeeter is bigger than me, but he is all "cautious" of strange kitties unless I actually get in a fight. Don't tell anyone I said so, but he is a very protective good "big brother". If I get in trouble, he really runs and helps me out. Not many strange kitties have a chance against me, and NO strange kitties stand a chance against US!
But it is really nice having The Big Thing around all the time. I really love getting to go outside whenever I want. And he sleeps on the warm soft bed longer these days, so I can lay right on him for longer and Skeeter and I really like that.