Cat Crack
In the hyperactive world of after school, this leaf is your only weapon. Armed with only this and your middle school education you could fail this task easily. What is the task, you ask? Well, it’s so hard that I bet you will scream. It’s…To have fun after school with cats!
What do you get when you have two temporarily hyperactive eighth grade girls who are over at one girl’s house, with the addition of two cats? Utter DOOM! No, not really, but it does make a really big mess. Okay, here we are in a mostly pre-World War I house. The carpets are so old that they are down to bare stubble with cat hair all over and embedded in them. The tan walls that surround the carpets need to be cleaned. (They have since been cleaned, and we are getting rid of the carpet) Also, My Chemical Romance is blasting from the stereo. There are four living creatures in this house excluding the bacteria that we all have. There are two cats: Ashley, a girl, grey, tan, and white tabby, and Sylvester, a boy, a black and white tuxedo. I have another cat but she was outside and missed out on all the excitement. Then, there are two girls: I am one of them and the other is one of my best friends, named Marissa. You see, Marissa is taller than I am and a bit thinner, plus she is much more hyperactive, normally. (That is why I call her hyper-bunny. She gets really jumpy when she is having fun.)
As you can guess, we are at my house after a very long and boring day at school without the “benefit” of adult supervision. Also, the internet is not available for our use.
Walking into the kitchen, I see “it.” It has many names: cat bliss, hyper-dust, green leafy substance, and catnip. Having an idea, I ask Marissa, “Hey, do you think we should give this to the cats?” Replying with the obvious answer, Marissa responded, “Of course!” She thinks, and then Marissa remembers something, “Hey, don’t you have a digital camera that records short videos?” “I do. Let’s film them!” I exclaimed.
Grabbing the gourmet-organic bag of catnip, and then grabbing the camera, we walked over to my cat Ashley. At the time, she was looking at the refrigerator. When she does, that she is really saying, “Feed me now you pathetic mortals! I could smite you with one well-cleaned paw tied behind my back!” As you can tell by now, my cats are insane, pushy, and cute, but mostly they are insane.
Talk about multi-tasking; I pressed the power button on my family’s black-plated and silver digital camera. I think it’s a Power Shot A400 by Canon, but I am not sure.
Spilling some catnip gracefully on the badly carpeted living room floor, we waited for Ashley to follow us and to react. We didn’t have to wait all that long. My feminine feline quickly started to role around in it about five seconds after the catnip fell from its royal, plastic cup. Ashley was tossing around in the catnip like a cute little piggy in a heaven full of brown, oozing mud. Looking around the living room, I saw a long, ribbon-like cat toy with feathers on the end. Thrusting the camera into Marissa’s hands, I grabbed the cat toy and started to dangle it in front of Ashley’s furry little face.
From the side lines, our boy-cat Sylvester watched and eagerly waited for his chance for some of the cat-related amusement. Of course, he was originally clueless as to what was making Ashley act so excitable and hyperactive. Giving Marissa the cat toy, I then used the camera to film what was happening. I even made it look like an earthquake was happening by shakings the digital camera for my own personal amusement.
Next thing I knew, Marissa was arguing with Ashley and shouting, “Grrrrr, give it to me!” “Its mine!” and of course going into maniacal laughter whenever she stole the feathery cat toy from the cat.
By now Sylvester had figured out what all the excitement as about. It did not help his situation that he fell by tripping over his own paws face first into the catnip cup. Cracking up at this, Marissa nearly fell over. Helping Sylvester to his little paws, I dusted him off.
So, Sylvester sneaks up very obviously, and pounce! He goes at the cat toy and misses completely. Of course being the dumb cute boy cat he is he runs into a wall, so he tries again. Finally after something like 9 tries he grabs the toy. It dangles in his mouth proudly. Ashley chases after Sly to see if she can steal the toy back and boy does she have a right to be mad, he’s faster than her. Laughing, Marissa and I leave the cats to their devices.
Looking back I remember how funny this was at the time. The time crunch we had, I thought this was pretty fun. I look back and I see how random I was being. So, to me, this is humorous, because I usually don’t go around my house doing this kind of stuff. I have known Marissa for over a year now. We go over to each others houses a lot and mess around on the inter net. Due to the internet not working we needed something else to do and that’s how this came about.