Rude Awakening
In the wee small hours of the morning, my husband and I had a rude awakening. While we were sound asleep, the Qatteri Cat figured out how to open the front door and walk out. Awakening and seeing light, my husband jumped out of bed, and yelled “Qatteri Cat is gone!” but as he wasn’t wearing much, he couldn’t go look for QC. Sheer panic. We know the QC would not last long on the mean streets of Kuwait.
I’m paranoid about sleeping in nothing much, like what if there is a fire or something? So I am wearing a little more, not much more, but enough that I can go look for QC, but as soon as he hears us exclaiming, he comes back in, like “hey! glad to see you up! Did you notice my food dish is empty?”
And it was empty. I have noticed if I can remember to feed him before we go to bed, we have fewer howlings in the middle of the night, fewer jumping at the door handle. Hunger makes him wakeful and energetic. And we normally lock the front door, but when we came in last night we were both carrying packages and I must have gotten distracted, I am usually the obsessive-compulsive one about making sure the door is locked.
And the Qatteri Cat? After all the commotion, he is sleeping in this morning, while I am walking around bleary and tired. But he is so sweet when he is sleeping.
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lol keep the door locked before he figures out how to work the elevators!
oh, hunger makes me do funny things too :-P, although i’m usually grumpier than the QC :-).
For grumpy, you should have seen me this morning, Little Diamond!
Skunk, you’re right. He is a dangerous combination of smart and stupid. Smart enough to open the door, stupid enough to go out.
QC is a prankster! And smart! The elevator would be quick work. But oh, what panic to realize he was on the prowl. We still can’t let StinkerCat out – he’s ADD, I swear! I’m grumpy this a.m., too – cat puke on bed late last night meant changing all linens before sleeping, and getting up early to finish laundry before heading out… Grrr….will need to DNA analyze to identify culprit!