Gettin Outside

Some kitties mentioned on our recent Thursday Thirteen post that they wish they could go outside like us. Well, while we have read things by other kitties about bein safer inside and things from yet other kitties about the joy of being free to roam, we think we have the perfect world for us.

We did have to ask The Big Thing about it all, though. He talked to us a long time (rollseyes), but we think we unnerstand what he was getting at in his long-talky way!

It is dangerous for kitties outside. We know that. Our friend, Boo, that we found a Forever home for, got killed by a Big Thing "car" (like the one we go in to the v-e-t, but he says it is safe to be IN one). And there are germses and bitey animals and such.

It is safer to stay inside alla time. But he says we will cross the Bridge someday anyway (an he will, too), so it only slows down the time. Inside can be lotsa fun, too. We love bein inside most of the time. We have lotsa fun, The Big Thing is there with us almost alla time, and we always feel happy and safe there.

But he says there are "in-between" ways. An thats why we get to go outside "sometimes". We have The Wall. It seems to keep out a lot of "troubles" (doggies, cars, vishus deer, etc). It also keeps us from going around and finding those "troubles". Also, The Big Thing is almost always out in the area with us, so we feel safe because of that. Sometimes he is walkin round with us, sometimes he is standin up on the deck watchin over us. And when he calls us in, we (usually) come right in. We admit that on warm Summer nights, with mousies and froggies and moths all over the place, we are sometimes not to happy to come in. But even then, he will come out and encourage us inside.

So, we figure we are lucky to be inside safe most of the time, lucky to be out safe some times, and really glad for both. An we wish all kitties could have both!

I Finally Figured Out the Kitty Condo

LC: Skeeter was all gettin up on the top Kitty Condo rest places and sleepin on them, but I couldn't really figure out why. But he is a pretty laid-back kitty an likes quiet places (closets, unner the bed, on The Big Thing), so I figured that was all it was good for.

I sat in the tunnel once (an The Big Thing caught me inna piciature there) but I wasnt real thrilled after I tried it out. I mean, it is juss another place and there are so many around the cave.

Well, yesterday, I decided to do some climbin, and the kitty condo seemed like a good place. I sat on the middle rest place a while and wasn't impresed - the view is better from a table (higher up). But then I went up to the top one...

OMG! I can look down into the fishie box! I can SMELL the fishies! There is a top thing on it but there is a little hole and I can even just barely touch the water! The Big Thing says he will cover the hole if I stand on the top, so I'm bein good (for now). But maybe if I am quiet about it at night, I can reach in at play with the fishies a little.

Well, anyway, The Big Thing saw me up there loookin (obviously) an took some piciatures. I was so exited I went all FRAP (Frenetic Random Activity Period) on the top rest place. I spun around, I grabbed my tail, and grabbed at invisible stuff over the edges. It was lotsa fun!

The Big Things piciature thingey doesn't have a "FRAP" setting, so they came out all blurry, but we are posting some anyway (cause I was so happy finding out a good thing about the top of the kitty condo).

Maybe I'll be kind to The Big Thing and tell him when I'm gonna fall asleep up there. But don't count on it. ;)


I'm lookin at the fishie box. You can just see the corner of it (and that awful top that keeps me away from playin with them).



Here I am all spinnin around (and the slight fog is my tail excapin from bein caught!