Eddie and Victor

[smkie]

My son brought his cat back after he (the cat) hurt his leg at the trailer court. He (the cat) wasn't happy there so here he is again. We have had eddie for almost 16 years. Eddie and i have issues and that is putting it lightly. There were two cats but at the trailer park one of them went missing. Now Eddie doesn't even have Db to keep him company. I will not under any circumstances pet that cat during the summer. poison ivy grows along the hedges and under sneaky places that Eddie loves to go. Eddie is so desperate for affection that he has gone to an unusual source.
Victor has always wanted to get close enuff to a cat to see what they smell like..now he has one. Eddie is rubbing and purring, churring and meowing at his new "owner". Winding around his legs like they have been best buds all along instead of bitter enemies. Victor is to put it mildly..thrilled. So i am letting the old monster cat in..at least for now. AS long as he minds his manners..(he still has to sleep in the laundry room at night) but i thought i would share the new relationship in the house.
haha victor is dropping his toys infront of eddie..picking them up and trying to get the cat to chase him..wonder how long it will take him to find out eddie wouldn't be caught dead acting like a dog..he thinks he is far too cool to "play"

 

[Denaluvscorgis]

That's to funny smkie!!

 

[Babyblue5290]

LOL that's so cute!!

Are we going to get some pics of eddie????

 

[smkie]

why surely! he is also in quite a bit of artwork too..he was Aaron's baby cat. Aaron use to go to sleep with his arm around eddie..forehead to forehead. Eddie would lay there until Aaron was sound asleep before easing himself out. Eddie's and my issues are concerning window screens. he loves to jump up meow at me and then scat before i can throw a cup of water at him..as soon as i sit down and start working again..he jumps back up on the screen. He ruined every screen i have ever had in every house we have lived in..until now. Guess he is too old and athritic to drive me nuts in that way..but oh my he has a dozen other ways of breaking my concentration and i swear to the heavens above he does it on purpose. HE can thank Aaron for his long and healthy life with us...I would have paid someone to take him a long time ago..i have lots of eddie stories including the day he brought home a pied Girbil. The neighbor on the corner had lost hers. I found out after i chased him all over the yard until he finally dropped it. It was unharmed but that wouldn't have been for long. The girl on the corner wanted to know if there was any way i could get him to catch the other one for her..

 

[Babyblue5290]

Well he looks real comfy! lol

He's a good looking cat!

 

[AnimalsAreforMe]

Lol reminds me of my black Cat Weezer

 

[Renee750il]

Here, Smkie, is a story for you about Cats that will explain a lot http://www.online-literature.com/kipling/163/

 

[smkie]

i can recite that story almost word for word..i had a disney album of the Cat that walked by himself that i listened to over and over again..believe me as i brought eddie in i thought of the little upside down bat and wondered if he is listening..(kid you not) i have a little paper bat that i cut out last holloween in the window..i am careful not to compliment him!!!!! even if he did keep Victor entertained..

 

[Renee750il]

That link is found on a site that has most of Kipling's works, along with the entire Just So Stories. Thought you might like it for stories to read to Hyia. I always especially loved the story "The Elephant Child." The language is just gorgeous and makes you smile . . . "on the banks of the great grey green greasy Limpopo River . . . Oh Best Beloved." And the Bi-colored Rock Python must have been an attorney, lol!

 

[smkie]

Renee you and i must have grown up with the same love for the same stories..i have read that one outloud to hyia many many times..i can't imagine growing up with out the elephant child's revenge!
i found her a lovely illustrated version..and i still have my disney records too...did you have the same set? i will have to look at who did the vocal tomorrow...also have you ever heard of lil orley?

 

[Renee750il]

I didn't have the Disneys, just the books. My sister had a whole set of those Disney records with the picture books attached to the sleeve. The Jungle Book was always her favorite. When she was being a brat or tearing up my room I could always run her off by reciting some of Kaa's lines, lol! She was terrified of Kaa.

Kipling's stories are even more enjoyable for the adult mind - so many little bits slipped in here and there:

'Scuse me,' said the Elephant's Child most politely, 'but have you seen such a thing as a Crocodile in these promiscuous parts?'

'Have I seen a Crocodile?' said the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake, in a voice of dretful scorn. 'What will you ask me next?'

and

Then the Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake came down from the bank, and knotted himself in a double-clove-hitch round the Elephant's Child's hind legs, and said, 'Rash and inexperienced traveller, we will now seriously devote ourselves to a little high tension, because if we do not, it is my impression that yonder self-propelling man-of-war with the armour-plated upper deck' (and by this, O Best Beloved, he meant the Crocodile), 'will permanently vitiate your future career.

That is the way all Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snakes always talk.

 

[Barb04]

Sounds like they are good friends; I do hope it continues!