Thick
Pete, also known as The Qatteri Cat, loves living back in Qatar except for one tiny little detail. Suddenly Mom, as he thinks of me, has become particularly thick.
He, on the other hand, is making things very clear.
“Miao! Mioaw! Miaow!” he hollars, winding his way through my legs, guiding me to the nearest door the the heaven he can see – OUTSIDE!
I ignore him. He is not going outside. There are some very mean street cats out there, and also some very mean people who put out poisoned fish to kill the mean street cats. Either or both would be very bad to a cream puff who has lived indoors all his life.
“Not all my life!” he assures me, remembering his origins as a street cat – well, a street kitten, abandoned on the Corniche in Doha. And, from time to time, he would break free and spend a happy half hour roaming, and then another less happy couple hours trying to figure out 1) how to get down the very tall tree or 2)how to get out of the yard he jumped into that has a high, unscalable wall or 3) where home is. We spare him those problems and keep him inside. There is lots to keep his attention, but none of it matters, he yearns to be OUTSIDE!
Poor Pete!
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\”mean people who put out poisoned fish to kill the mean street cats\”
*gasps*
loool what happened to the kitty-cat ‘palace’ :)?
S’true, sadly. 😦
Sold when we left Doha, LD! I think it is too small for the new, enlarged QC!
Poor Pete! Those big sliders are such and enticement, aren’t they?
Animals seldom understand what’s Best for them 😉
People actually go buy POISON and insert it into fish to kill cats! Ok I’m not fond of street cats but COME ON!
Oh, Momcat, all he can think about is “outdoors!”
Nicole – sort of like us, huh? 😉
Yeh, 1001, the cats were brought in a long time ago from Turkey to control the rats (port cities have ’em) and the population grew. They feed on garbage bins, many are sickly. There is an animal rescue league here that does the best they can, like Animal Friends in Kuwait, but the problem is huge.
awwww… look at QC in that last pic, he wants FREEDOM!!! 😛
Yes he does, Mathai, and he is such a total cream puff he could get badly hurt if he were to go outside. 😦