Play Date.

Yesterday I took Charlie Popo out to visit my friend A’s four-year-old black kitties Thunder and Lightning. Charlie comes from a bustling home filled with all kinds of animals and grew up playing with four other kitties and three very touchy children so I thought it would be fun for her to play with friends. 

Fig. B: I could never tell these two apart

Thunder and Lightning are massive, pure black, shiny-coated, big-eyed kitties that look more like wild pumas than house cats. 

Fig. C: Le approximate size difference.

They are many times bigger than Charlie, and also many many more times imposing with their all-black coats and gigantic eyes and ability to bound onto kitchen counter tops in a single leap, so imagine our surprise when as soon as I let Charlie go to play…

They immediately FREAKED THE HECK OUT and scattered in a panicked frenzy from room to living room to bathroom to kitchen then to their final destination: the top of the refrigerator, where they remained for the duration of the (now failed) play date, gurgling and growling and hissing in fear and confusion. 

Fig. F: GOWAY OUR HAUS