Suddenly *Not So* Single Journey

Oh, the irony…

Author: thenicknick

Okay, when last we left my cat conundrum…Gracey had been missing for a few weeks.  We’re not sure what happened, still.  There are a few possibilities.

One: He may have picked up on the fact that we had paid for him to get fixed.  That could cause any hot blooded male to head for the hills.

Two: He may have had an adverse reaction to the medicine that was supposed to help him get rid of the worms.  I really hope not.

Secretly, I picture him so happy and healthy that he’s off gallivanting around, flaunting his bad self.  Ahhh.  I can dream, right?

Three: Gracey has come to an untimely end.

That last one is the one that I really try not to dwell on too much.  The fact remains that there are lots of predators for him even in the suburbs.  We have cars and raccoons and all manner of bigger meaner wild life.  *sigh*  Still, I’m a realist.

Well, once it was obvious that he wasn’t going to be back to get fixed, we decided to get Charlie fixed.  Our ittiest bittiest kitty cat was born in a barn.  And while you can take the cat out of the wild, it’s hard to take the wild out of the cat.  She hasn’t figured out that she’s a house cat yet.  So, frequently, we have to snag her as she makes one escape after another.

Only, over the weekend, she discovered a hole in the screen porch that we hadn’t.  First, she shocked me by standing on the bench outside the screen porch, yowling to come in.  Then, she shocked me by being in our newly created courtyard area/natural area.  That’s when we did the screen check.  Sure enough, our budding David Copperfield had discovered hew own screen version of the trap door.

Well, the plot thickens.

Rachel had been saying that she thought Charlie was with kittens.  To be quite honest…she’s so young, a mere seven months old, that we didn’t think it possible.  We also figured that since Gracey had little success impregnating Sophie after months and months of trying, that there was no way he would seal the deal with Charlie.  And mostly, we simply believed it to be a case of wishful thinking on Rachel’s part.

Sometimes…I get tired of being wrong.  It seems that Charlie is indeed with kitten.  And if she’s not with kitten, she has the biggest tapeworm EVER.  I swear I can almost watch her getting fatter and rounder.  If that in itself isn’t evidence enough, the fact that Sophie now shuns her should be.  Ahh, female jealousy at its finest.  Sophie loved loved loved Gracey.

On the bright side, it looks like Gracey will have a legacy.  And Rachel has begged to keep one.  So, if her chosen kitty is a girl, she’ll name her Amelia, Mimi for short.  And if the chosen kitty is a boy…he’ll be called Simon.  If he ends up being as mouthy as his mother, I’ll be calling him Simon Says.

Such is the circle of life.

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