Monty by Jim Meddick for December 15, 2021

How’s that cat ownership working out?

Soots him right.

Who didn’t see that coming?

Chim chiminey

Chim chiminey

Chim chim cher-ee!

A tail wiggle’s funny

As we all can see (What? ya can’t?)

Chim chiminey

Chim chiminey

Chim chim cher-oo!

Good soot will rub off when I shake tail for you

And blow you a dustcloud that makes you achoo

Wiggle your tail tail?

Wiggle your tail tail? Is Fleshy bifurcated back there?

And how did your tail suddenly get so bushy and have a rings on it?

Hey wait! That’s not soot!

I actually did “talk down” one of my cats who raced up a redwood tree without realizing ground cover kept him from having a good view of the ground on the hillside. I found a fifteen-foot long sapling that had been cut down (a former logging area) and braced it against the tree. I called him around and down to the lowest limb where he could see the sapling and run down it to the ground. Cats are not really designed for backing down a tree. However, the other cat who walked with us, Johnny Depp, never got stuck. He could back down a tree using his claws like jackboots – very sharp cat.

I see something….I think it’s a planet….YES! URANUS!

Foooosh? Well I never! What are you feeding that cat!?

Cousin Itt likes being in the chimney flue.

He climbed up; he can climb down. Especially when he gets hungry or thirsty……

I did not see it coming, here come the roar of can laughter.

Please, blacken my visage with soot and dust!

That would have been more direct, Monty. Did you never notice that a wriggling tail tends to ream out a chimney?