the kitten chronicles - part 70

There was commercial on the Super Bowl for a digital software company that featured cowboys trying to herd cats. It was very funny. And the idea was that herding cats was difficult to well nigh impossible. If that's true, the Big Cat should give up advertising and start a cat herding workshop. It's easy peasy. The aforementioned Big Cato just says,"C'mon boys let's go!" And said boys follow. We go upstairs like this. Downstairs to the basement.There's nothing to this herding stuff - in fact, it's more like a stampede. I simply start them with a crisp command and they run way ahead. Sometimes for fun, I fake them out - I start them up the stairs - then I double back in sneaky fashion and just plunk myself down in my chair. They come downstairs minutes later to find me cruelly laughing at them. "Psych!", I yell in glee."But Big Cat, why did you not come up the stairs? Why Big Cat? Why?"they plead with their big moist eyes.
And then I feel a tremendous pang of remorse. Often, I'm so moved a single teardrop will fall in my chili.Then the boys, seeing water, pounce on me. Their revenge is terrible to behold. xxx dad