Stupid Kitty

On my drive into work this morning I witnessed a peculiar scene. Sat on a pavement there were two cats, one black tom, one ginger. They were sat perhaps a few inches apart, facing each other, with a relaxed and comfortable posture. Not squaring up to each other. As I watched, the ginger tom raised one paw with his claws retracted and bopped the black tom round the face, directly below the eye. The black tom didn’t even flinch, he just flickered his eyes at his companion and remained motionless.

Cats are bloody weird. They must have secret lives.

Take this photo for example.

Cat Mafia
Cat Mafia

I was walking back to my car in the dark and was just saying goodbye to my friend when a cat slunk slowly past, between us and went and sat on the garden wall behind. About 30 seconds later a second cat followed suite, then a third joined them on the wall. As I took this photo, a fourth feline was skulking along the wall to join them. There was clearly some orchestrated plan behind this, some organised meeting of grey cats on this wall, at this time of night. Though I wouldn’t even try to guess what it is they were doing. A mafia crime family meeting, the Duchia cats awaiting the Corvioli’s for a major sitdown concerning the catnip trade in the region?

14 thoughts on “Stupid Kitty

  1. I don’t like cats but I don’t hate them either. They are stubborn creatures, I guess it takes one to know one! Lol

  2. They were plotting revenge on the neighborhood dogs!! 🙂 Sometimes watching animals is more fun than watching television.

  3. I know what you mean, we have an orange tabby male and he is an inside/outside cat. At night when I go to the door to let him in, there’s like 3 to 4 other cats just lounging on my porch. I’m thinking, “I hope he’s not telling them that I’m going to feed them”.

  4. If left to their own devices, house cats, unlike any other cat but the lion, will live together (loosely) in a colony. That’s probably what you were witnessing. Cats who tolerate each other coming together on neutral ground to share the daily news.

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