Oliver

After I woke up and ate some food and drank some water, I walked into the outside today in the hot light where the birds and the mice are because mommy left the outside door open and so I could go there. Sometimes I ask her to go to the outside but she does not let me, and she gives me cookies. I like cookies but I like the birds more and I want to catch them and eat them.

First I sat near the door and looked. I could see a lot of grass and other human things far away. Then I jumped up on some furniture that was outside, near the door, and looked more. I could see more from up high and so now what I could see was mine and I could hunt there.

I went out to the place where the grass is and it was very nice. It felt good under my feet. I had never been on it before. It felt like the soft ground inside, but better. The hot light is everywhere all over it so I wanted to have a nap. Napping is nice in hot light. But I could hear the birds so I went to look for some. First I hid in the little trees and went around the walls near them so I could hide. Hiding is good because I did not want the birds to see me before I saw them.

Some of the small trees and plants smelled very good. I bit some of the leaves. Some tasted bad but some tasted good. Also I ate some grass and it was also very tasty. Maybe later I will barf but then it was tasty.

Outside there are more smells and more things to hear and see. I like it very much. Some of the things were things I could smell from the house when mommy opened the window. Some were new and different. Some were things maybe I could catch and eat.

I knew I had to be careful because outside are many dangerous animals like dogs but also raccoons. I see them from the window and maybe there are more. Also I see squirrels and rabbits. Once I saw an opossum and once I saw a skunk. There was a fox and her babies too once many days and nights ago. I know what animals these are. I would like to catch some.

It was the first time I was in the outside ever except maybe when I was a kitten but that was not for many days and nights. So I was hiding so that I could see other animals but they could not see me. It is important to be very quiet and to be still or to move slowly, when you are hiding, and also when you are hunting. I am very quiet.

I wanted to meet another cat too. Sometimes other cats do not like me but sometimes they do. If you are careful and do the right things, like rolling over and meowing the right way, and stretching our your legs, other cats will be your friends. Sometimes mommy takes me to other human places. Once I was in another place for many days and nights and there were other cats and some were my friends.

Then I saw a bird! It was black and gray and it was on the grass. I made bird noises to fool it into coming to me, but it did not come to me, so I went to it very slowly to catch it.I was very careful and I kept very low to the ground. I got close, but it flew away. I wish I could fly to chase birds, but I am not a bird.

I was not sad. Sometimes when you hunt you catch the bird and sometimes you do not. A smart cat keeps trying and I am very smart. If I catch a bird I can eat it and also feed my mommy.

I kept going around the walls to find another bird. I could hear them but they were very far away. I could hear many different birds. I was hungry so I wanted to catch one so I could eat it and I kept looking.

Then I saw a dangerous animal. It looked like a dog but it smelled different. It was big. I hissed at him and I made myself look very big like a very big cat. But it was not scared! It made scary noises and it came closer. I hissed and growled and then it got very close and it tried to bite me but I am very fast. I jumped and I hit him on the nose with my claws. I knew it was a boy because it smelled like a boy. I am a boy too. Then I ran away. I looked behind me when I got behind a small tree but it had also run away. I was very scared but I know I cannot let the other animals know I am scared. I have to scare them first. That is how I can be strong.

I thought maybe I should go back inside to get water but I like being in the outside.

I kept going around the wall and I found some water so that was good. It was in a hole and it tasted different from the water inside but it was very good.

Also outside there are many bugs. I like catching bugs but they don’t taste good.

Far away there was the outside wall that I could see from my favorite window. I knew I could get on top of it and be closer to birds but I could not hide while I was going there. I looked everywhere for dangerous animals but I could not see any. So I started to walk to the outside wall. The grass was so nice to walk on. And I could smell mice and other animals that were like mice. I started to look for them because they would also be fun to catch and to eat.

Then the big animal that was like a dog came back. It was chasing me and it was very angry, more angry than it was before. I knew because it was making different noises that said it was angry and wanted to kill me. So I ran, but it was faster. It was going to catch me but in the middle of the grass there was furniture. It was not like the furniture inside. It was hard and not soft. So I jumped on it. The dangerous animal tried to jump on it too but I hissed at him and swung my claws at him. The dangerous animal stayed down on the grass and made angry noises and started to walk around the furniture that I was on top of. I think he could jump onto the furniture too but then I could hit him first and he did not want that so he wanted to first make me come down. Then he could kill me and eat me.

I looked around and there was no place I could jump to. I am strong and I can jump very far, but everything was even further than I can jump.

The dangerous animal growled and kept walking around the furniture. He was looking at me while I growled. He was much stronger and bigger than me.

I decided to wait. I am a very patient boy and I can wait a whole day before I have my dinner. I watched the dangerous animal very carefully. He was walking and growling but then he stopped. He lied down on the grass and just looked at me. I watched him because I know sometimes animals fall asleep. I decided that when he fell asleep that is when I would run away. Although he did not smell exactly like a dog he was sort of like a dog and dogs are not as smart as cats, and I am smart.

After awhile he started to get tired. I was very happy. His eyes were closing and opening, and then they closed all the way and they stayed closed. He was asleep. I got up and got ready to jump off the furniture on the side the dangerous animal was not on, and then he ran around and tried to bite me! He was pretending to be asleep like how I sometimes pretend to do things, like when I pretend that I think toys are real birds and mice. I almost fell off the furniture but I stayed on it.

Now the dangerous animal walked around and growled more and I hissed at him but he would not go away. Soon he lied down again to watch me. If he pretended to be asleep again he would not fool me, because I am smart.

But then the dangerous animal came up to the furniture and instead of trying to jump on it, it stood on its back legs and started to push the furniture with its front legs. I stayed away from it. I thought it was not very smart. Furniture does not move! But then I felt the furniture moving! Furniture does move! Or maybe it was just that animals that are much bigger than I am can move furniture. The furniture was tipping over just a little bit. I ran over and I hit the dangerous animal with my claws. It growled and tried to bite me. We had a fight where I hit it with my claws and screamed and he tried to bite me. I was faster but he was much bigger and I knew if he bit my paw he could pull me off.

After I hit him some more I backed up and so did he. He growled and again he started to walk around the furniture, looking at me.

I watched him very carefully. After awhile he lay back down, watching.

I waited and waited. I like the hot light but it was very, very hot. I got very thirsty and the top of the furniture was getting very hot. It was so hot it was starting to hurt my feet. I was getting very scared. If it was too hot I would have to get off and then the dangerous animal would eat me.

There were no humans around. Humans do not like it when dangerous animals chase cats and they stop them. Humans like to pick up cats and pet them. I like humans but there were no humans, so I started to meow. I did my special meow that said I was in trouble and I needed a human to help me. But no humans came and I could not hear any humans.

Then I had an idea. Sometimes when I am on furniture I like to push things with my paws. It makes me feel smart. It is like pushing mice or other things I can hunt, like fish. And if you push a thing off the furniture it makes a sound and humans say things to you and I like humans and I like when they talk to me. Sometimes the things you push break.

There was a flower container on the table. It did not have flowers in it but it was the thing mommy puts flowers in.

If I could push it onto the dangerous animal, I would hurt it.

I tried to push the container. It was very heavy. It was much heavier than most things I push with my paws. It did not move. I tried again and it still would not move. No matter how hard I pushed with my paw it would not move.

It was getting hotter and now my feet hurt. The hot light was over me and it hurt my eyes.

I remembered that sometimes, when I am running, I hit things and that makes them move too. One time a kitten human was in my house, and I was running very fast, because I am strong and fast, and I hit the kitten human, and the kitten human fell down. It cried and I was very sad about that. I did not mean to make the kitten human cry, because kittens have to be safe. But I remembered that.

I walked to one side of the furniture and ran at the container and hit it with my head. It fell over!

But then it was rolling like some things do. I was scared because now if it fell it would not hit the dangerous animal so I tried to push it away from the edge even though I like to push things towards the edge. It started to roll the other way and that was not the way the dangerous animal was. So I pushed it back towards the dangerous animal. I knew I had to make the dangerous animal get closer.

I went to where the container was going to fall off the edge, and I jumped down.

The dangerous animal got up and came at me to eat me. It had very big teeth.

It was very very fast. I turned around and I ran under the furniture but I did not get very far before the dangerous animal was there. It bit me in my back and I think it was going to shake me.

But just as the dangerous animal put its mouth around me, the container fell off the table and hit it in the head just before the dangerous animal could put its teeth in me! It broke and there was a very loud sound, a sound I have heard before that a human thing is breaking. The dangerous animal made a scared sound and let go of me. I turned and looked at it and hissed. It was looking around very confused, and the container was now in small pieces. The dangerous animal saw me and made an angry noise and lunged, but then it made a sound that it was hurt. It jumped back and there was blood on its feet, and then it made another hurt sound and jumped back again, and now it ran away making scared sounds.

I won the fight because I am smart and strong.

I ran away to the outside wall. It was made of stuff my claws let me climb and so I climbed it. Up there, dangerous animals could not get me. I could also see very far now. I could see a lot of grass and now it was all my territory where I could hunt.

I could hear a lot of birds and I knew soon I would catch one. Then I will take it to mommy and she will give me cookies.

I was very happy. So I had a nap.