Friday Ark: Merri the Former Rat

In March or thereabouts, Typing Slave, Pink Thing and Loud Thing vacated my premises for a week and journeyed across the great, green (and sort of brown, since that freeze in April killed so many things) state of Tennessee to Grandma and Nanny Slave's house. Big D and I spent the week alone in the silent house except for Food Slave puttering about, and he doesn't make as much noise as, say, LOUD Thing.

To make a long story even longer, there are 7 cats at Grandma Slave's house. It's the House O Cat. The Party Cats live there, plus Grandma's cats, plus....Pink Thing's cat, adopted from the rats I ran off last year, is Merri.

Merri is not unhappy that she now lives in the House O Cat, so I hear. Nor am I. She looks like the type of cat I'd have to beat down on a regular basis, and that might chip my claws. Apparently she spends most of her time outdoors, like some kind of STRAY, and has done a number on the voles and shrews that live around there.

Not that she EATS them. She leaves them somewhere on the porch, and either Bailey (another cat) or the dog eats them. The dog pukes them back up usually, which is probably pretty funny. I guess maybe Merri learned a thing or two from Big D and myself the short time she was here.

Sincerely,
MK

PS: If you want to see more cats almost as cool as myself, and in all likelihood cooler than Merri the former RAT, go check out Friday Ark on, uh, Friday: http://themodulator.org/