Where Have I Been?

It has been a long 3 months in my little world.

It all started in November when the female decided that we were going to move and gave notice at our apartment, saying that we would be out January 31st (which also happens to be her birthday - I got her a dead mouse). Almost immediately, I lost my computer privileges. Once the realization of what she had done sunk in, she began frantically searching Kijiji, craigslist.com and other such sites for a suitable living space for the lot of us. Some places were too small, others were too expensive, still more were just too far from where she wanted us all to live. She made a list of must haves in our new home, here is a small section of the list; within a reasonable walking distance to downtown (if not downtown), no extremely small kitchens, must have a balcony, must have secure entry, must be all inclusive, must be pet friendly, must have parking, etc. To top it all off, she wanted this place to cost less than $900! I was certain that we would soon be homeless and on the rare occasion that I did get a chance to slip onto the computer, I would search the want ads looking for a home that wanted a slightly ornery cat.

The female did find a place for us to live and set a move in date of January 9th. She figured that would give us just over a month to pack and we'd have about three weeks to finish cleaning out our old apartment. Plenty of time, she'd say. Pfffft. You should have seen her scrambling the last week before the big move in day. She scrambled even more when, two days before we were to move, she realized that she had not hired a moving company yet. Stupid human.

I will spare you the details of the move, it was not a dignified one with yours truly suck in a big metal crate with the two dumb mutts for five hours, but it happend and finally we had a new home. When we were finally let out of the makeshift prison, the stupid dogs ran all over the place while I made sure I had a proper toilet and my own place to eat. Imagine my horror when I walked into the room that contained my toilet, only to find that it was also the mangy, stumpy, legged mutt's bedroom! I showed my displeasure that evening by taking the time to knock over every carefully placed item and box in the apartment.

I did that for nearly a week straight. The female was starting to get angry with me. She began locking me in the room that I shared with the mutts while she was out of the apartment. I needed to get on her good side again if I was ever going to take over the world.

So we come to this;

Yes, that is myself. Yes, I have lowered myself to doing tricks for treats. It is all part of my master plan. Trust me.

I must be off now, it smells like there is a pot of chili on the stove that would look better on the floor,
TKKAL

Oh The HORROR!

THEY LEFT ME! AGAIN!

This time was much longer than the others, if my memory serves me correctly it was nearly one full week.

The worst part? They took the pesky mutts with them, but not loveable little old me! It would have been the perfect change to escape.

It all started a week ago. I knew something was up when I saw the female throwing clothing into bags and bringing things from inside out, and then not bringing them back in - sometimes I wish she would do this with the dogs. I attempted to remain calm, maybe I would be going too?

Soon it was my turn. She pulled out my backpack carrier. I hate that thing and I was mad at her, so naturally, I decided to make it difficult for her. I ran around and hid under things where I knew she wouldn't be able to reach me. Eventually I grew bored and allowed her to capture me, that's when I was put in the backpack of misery.

The minute I was loaded into the car I started howling the most annoying howl you can imagine. I continued this for the duration of the trip, into the building where I later found out I would be staying, and for a little bit after I was let out of my backpack.

She showed me where my litter box was, played with me for a little bit and then left. I did not approve of course, although I did know the family that I was staying with - I am actually quite fond of them.

To show my disapproval I did to these new people exactly what I did to the male and female when I came to live with them  - refuse to eat for a little bit and meow as loudly as I could when they went to sleep.

The female must have been communicating with these new people, although I have no idea how. The laser pointer came out one night and after a good session with that I was very hungry and had to cave in and eat something.

Of course, right as I settled in I was loaded back up to come back "home".

So here I am, back in my usual place of residence, dropping hair purposefully all over the dark clothes and fully ignoring my humans.

- TKKAL