I've just had the fright of my life this afternoon. I've spent all weekend in the studio working on my own as Richard has taken the little monsters away so I could work. The house is amazingly quiet and I'm not used to it. I used to be a quiet person until we had more than one child. Our house is generally very noisy. To take advantage of the lovely weather and the first real chance this year, I left the back door open to air the house whilst I was working upstairs. When I came down to make a coffee, something moved in the kitchen. I jumped and yes, I'm sorry to admit, I screamed, or rather squealed. Rather pathetic, I know. It was one of our neighbour's cats jumping up onto a bench and smashing Richard's precious seedlings at the other side of the room. I'm not sure who was more panicked.
I got a grip of myself - it wasn't an alient invader, just a scared and trapped cat and tried to work my way over to it to get it out, talking to it a calming voice, feeling rather silly for screaming. Eventually I got in a position it could run past me and out the door. It took ages for my heartbeat to get back down to normal levels.
So next time I am working upstairs in the studio, I know not to leave the back door open for nosy cats, although I think after the fright the cat got, it won't be back here in a hurry. It was almost as bad as the time when we were having work done on our old house and a cat crept in during the night and I woke up to something strange on my feet...
Maybe this is why our only pets are our new tropical fish. As I keep saying looking after the kids is more than enough work for me!
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I had a similar experience about 6 months ago when I got up and discovered a cat cowering behind the TV. It must have come in before I shut the cat flap up for the night. When I tried to move the TV table it came out like a rocket, went up the walls and finally found the open patio door. It hasn't been back since!
That's a weird comment you have as your first one!
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