October 2008
6 posts
Tom explains the problem with plastic bags
Come on out Fraidy Kat. It’s me!
Oh, hi Tom. It’s nice to see you again so soon.
Hi Fraidy. I’ve been spending time in that new park. Mostly I stay up in the trees listening to the humans and sometimes my new human friend is there. He tries to explain things to me, but he’s as puzzled by humans as I am.
You know, the more I learn about them the more they disturb me. I wonder...
September 2008
4 posts
hello small-timid-cat
Oh! Hi bobcat. It’s nice to see you. Where have you been?
bobcat friend one-eye-cat-torn-ear. bobcat sit colony one-eye-cat-torn-ear. colony tell story story. bobcat hear good good story tell small-timid-cat
Is it another story about humans who love animals?
story animal love human. good good story.
zoo place human watch animal. gorilla live zoo. human cub fall...
August 2008
12 posts
Good evening Miss Kat. It is I — Rainier Carl Gustaf von Katz. Will you honor me with your presence this evening?
Oh, hi Mr. Katz. I always like it when you come. You know so much.
Come now, my dear child, I am merely a student of human behavior, fortunate to live with an enlightened human who assists me in apprehending the whys and wherefores of that most exasperating species.
When last...
Hello Tom. It’s nice to see you again so soon.
I’ve been out of the neighborhood all week. I found a big park about one night’s walk from here and I spent a lot of the time hiding in a tree, listening to the things that humans like to talk about.
You know I’ve always mistrusted humans but yesterday I made a human friend. He can even speak a little bit of Cat, but mostly he spoke to...
hello small-timid-cat.
Hello bobcat. Thanks for coming to visit me again.
bobcat tell story small-timid-cat. friend one-eye-cat-torn-ear tell story bobcat. story make bobcat happy.
Oh yes, please. I’d like to hear a good story.
story good human.
bobcat cousin cougar. lion big cougar. lion big big. human hurt lion. lion mad human. lion hurt human. no end.
some human friend animal....
Greetings young Fraidy Kat. It is I. May I humbly request the pleasure of your company this evening?
Hi Mr. Katz. How are you?
Oh Miss Kat, how I wish I could say that I am doing well. Unfortunately I have the thankless task of speaking with you tonight on the subject of humans and their horrific propensities to inflict pain.
Have there been more cats taken to labatories?
I’m sorry,...
July 2008
12 posts
What is it Tom! You look like you haven’t slept at all today.
It’s worse than that Fraidy Kat. I spent last night and most of today lying with a dying cat. I licked him and purred almost non-stop but in the end he died. In a way it was a relief for him, after the way he had been treated most of his young life.
What do you you mean?
He had escaped from a laboratory, and lived only a...
hello small-timid-cat. come out talk.
Who are you?
am bobcat. new friend one-eye-cat-torn-ear ask bobcat see you.
Is your name Bob Kat?
no no. am bobcat. bobcat not understand name. only animal live human have name.
Do you know anything about humans?
yes yes. human take bobcat land. no place hunt. bobcat leave wild home. move city.
Are you safe in The City? Can you find food?
yes yes....
Hello Tom. I haven’t seen you for days. Where were you?
I’ve decided it’s time for me to learn more about humans, so I’ve started exploring the city. It’s a big place, and everywhere I go I see humans doing different things. They are so complicated! I don’t think that rational animals like us will ever understand how humans get themselves into so much trouble.
...
(When Fraidy Kat peeked out from under the bed last night she saw a strange cat on the window ledge. He was the fattest, sleekest and longest-hair creature she had ever seen)
Miss Kat! Kindly come out from under your abode. Our mutual friend Thomas suggested that I might stop by and speak with you when he is otherwise engaged.
Do you mean Feral Tom?
Yes, that is the gentleman in question. He...
June 2008
6 posts
Hello Tom, I’ve been missing you.
Hello Fraidy Kat. I would have been here sooner but I’ve been talking to a bobcat that just moved into the neighborhood.
What kind of cat?
A bobcat, Fraidy, is a type of cat that lives in The Wild. He’s a little bit bigger than me, and he has a short tail that looks like it was cut off.
Did he...
I’m telling you, Fraidy, I’m just getting so angry at the Republican Party.
I know, Tom, I don’t like parties either. There’s so many people and noise, and I can’t even come out to get a drink of water.
No, no, Fraidy Kat. Not parties like when your human has other humans in your house all at once. I mean these big groups of humans that chose who gets to be the...
May 2008
3 posts
Tom, are you mad at me about something? If you are I’m not coming out from under this bed.
No Fraidy, of course not. It’s those humans again. No matter what happens they only think of themselves. They think they own the world, and they treat every other living creature as if we were just things.
Oh, Tom, I know that. Why do you think I stay under the bed? What have they done now?
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