The fur........ The fox was back on the porch this evening, just before it got dark outside. Our inside cat Sweet Pea heard him on the porch and he ran from the TV room to the kitchen to get a better look from the window. I hadn't heard a thing, but Sweet Pea's feline warning system is hardly ever wrong, so I looked out the door and there was the fox, about to have a taste of the Meow Mix that I'd left out there for Orange Kitty.
As soon as I opened the door, the fox ran towards the back of the porch and just looked at me...... when he saw me go out on the porch, he ran off into the yard. Just what we need here, a fox who's brave enough to come right up to the back door. The fox didn't come back tonight, but Orange Kitty did, meowing loudly because there was no Meow Mix out there for him. I went out on the porch and put the food bowl there for him, and left it till he seemed to have had enough. I guess I can't leave cat food out there anymore because I'll have every fox in the hills waiting on line for Meow Mix.
The feathers....... One of the neighbors has a peacock....... beautiful male with the usual bright display of colors. Problem with the peacock is that he doesn't have a peahen for company. So every hour of every day this past week, he's been calling out his loneliness in hopes that a peahen might hear him and heed his pleas for companionship. The peacock's calls are extremely loud, and at the very beginning of his vocal efforts, he sounds like a very loud cat. The first meow syllable quickly dissolves into a high-pitched cry of angst, however, which probably scares every cat within hearing distance.
Perhaps the peacock needs to post an ad in the local paper: "Male peacock looking for companionship, with possibility of life-long commitment.... must like long walks in the woods, sleeping in pecan trees, and dining al fresco."
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