Cats

Cats are funny creaters. All they do is sleep, eat, play and then do it all over again. Some cats hunt and roam around but not my cat. He is scared of absolutely everything. I now know where the term "scardy cat" came from. He does some funny things sometimes though. He goes crazy and starts running around the house like some physco, jumping all over the furniture and attacking anything in his path for about 2 seconds before he bolts. During these fits he likes to climb my door jams. He has started scratching off the paint in several different areas. The crazy thing is that some of the scratch marks are over 60 inches high! That is over 5 feet! Another funny thing he does is chase flys and other little bugs that buzz around. The funny part is... he can actually catch them out of mid air. I was watching him one day when he just stopped... sat real still while the fly buzzed around him... he followed it with his eyes and his tail was twitching... then all the sudden... BAM!!! his two front paws come up and snatch it right out of the air and bring it to the ground where he procedes to slowing move his paws away while he sniffs at it then eats it. I thought I was going to die laughing! I hope I can catch that act on video one of these days...

On a sad note... my family's cat... Tiger... who had been around for 19 years passed away recently. He was just getting so old he could barely get around even to go to the bathroom. He was kind of a crazy cat in his younger years as well. It's a little weird because I had just turned 6 when we got him along with two others... and I turn 25 next week. I don't really have to many memories at home with out that cat being around. He was actually my brother's cat. My cat T.C. died when I was high school do to injuries suffered after being attacked by a bobcat. Anyway... enough sad stories for one day. I have Harley now... :)

- footprints of Chad, 4:34 PM

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