TOO HOT TO TRAVEL

Trials of Timmy, the idiot cat

Anyone who is expecting
the usual travel stuff today
will be disappointed. To
make matters -worse — for
anyone who dislikes cats,
today is a cat ‘story. Or,
several.

It’s hotter than hell
outside today. My only
travel plans include a ride in
Brian's car which is the only
air conditioning we own.

The only way you could
pry me out of Vancouver in
weather like this is to pay my
way or send me back to
teaching school — teachers
have those two months
which is the world’s worst
time to travel. Unless you
enjoy mob scenes out of
“Pop Rock”.

We have four cats. Yes, I
know that no one in their
right mind has four cats
unless “Princess” meets a
wandering minstrel and
provides you with her own
proof of fertihty.

Our Timmy is one of the
idiot cats. Purrs like hell,
likes laps and has ears big
enough to make Dumbo the
Elephant feel right at home.
He was an SPCA special —

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away that he didn't have an
overload in the brain
department. He clumsied his
way into full bathtubs (does
a fine breaststroke), stacked
dishes (OK, who put the
steak bone in my bed?), and
prized porcelain. Brian will
never forgive him for one,
no, make that two disasters.
He also smashed one of my
treasured pieces. Klutzy cat.

A few years ago, we were
troubled by crows —
probably 1200 of the black
horrors that congregated in
the woods behind our house.
At dawn, the ruckous
started, disturbing our sleep
and doing nothing at all for
our senses of humour. It’s a
rare cat that can catch a
crow.

I was sitting — right here
— at my typewriter one
morning when the start of
World War III erupted in my
back yard. Crows, by the
droves, were divebombing
Timmy. He settled their hash
by knocking one into the
pool. The downed crow was
clucking his last when I
dipped in with the scoop and
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minutes later it was
recovered and gone.

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multitude of crows that had
plagued us. So-long,
farewell, goodbye. [ve got
to believe the one I raised
from the dead passed the
word — avoid that joint like
the plague.

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I told the story far and
wide and a lot of people gave
me funny looks. So? They
had crows and we didn't.

Last weekend it was hotter
than the inside of a cow. To
catch the late cool breezes, I
was all by myself in the back
yard. Sun just going down, it
was still hight enough to
read.

I had a skritchy-scratch on
our back fence but ignored
it. Probably one of the other
cats coming home for
dinner. The smell of the
barbecue incites that homing
instinct.

When the great-
grandaddy of all coons
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to look twice to believe how
big it was. Lurching across
the patio, it was making hell-
for-leather towards the pool.
I don’t think he was aiming
to swim — just a drink.
Timmy didn’t give a damn
what he wanted.

With a deep-throated
growl, our poor idiot cat
took off in attack formation.
What does a big coon do
when confronted by an
angry cat? It runs. I don't
suppose it realized how silly
it looked, charging across
the yard, pursued by a cat. A
thin, rangy-looking cat with
big ears.

Timmy whipped the coon
across the yard, up the fence
and about a half-block into
the woods, howling nasty

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been. Timmy aeeds all the
bluff he can muster.

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