“What is he staring at? He can’t be staring at the wall, can he? But why? Why would he be staring at a wall so intently? It defies all logic! Why?!”
Those words…I’ve been saying them to myself over and over for around three-quarters of the past two hours. And he? To tell you the truth, he refers to my pet cat, Bisto, who has been sitting on the neighbours’ side of my garden fence since 7 o’clock now (barring a ten minute interval where he came in to be fed), seemingly fixated on a wall. I couldn’t even begin to describe to you what is so fascinating about this wall. It has no curve, no notably strange indentations, no holes to speak of. It’s an ordinary – and might I add, highly clean – wall.
So what on earth is he looking at it for?! I’ve racked my brain searching for an answer, and my quest has ground to a halt. I cannot make any sense of why he’s doing it! Surely there has to be a decent explanation, mustn’t there? Being rational has bore no fruit; being nonsensical has bore no fruit. I’m seriously at the end of my tether here!
I’ve delved too deep and plunged too far to accept that purely because he’s a cat, there doesn’t have to be a good reason as to why he’s doing it. I refuse to believe that. And I must know now what has possessed him to take on a task so pointless. He doesn’t usually act like this. Could it be that my cat has gone insane? Should I be contemplating taking him to a cat psychiatrist? Should I take seriously the thought of enrolling him in a cat mental institution?
*pause*
Ok, so I wandered up to my dad about this, to get his opinion. His suggestion: there may be a gap to the left of the wall he appears to be looking at, into which he is gazing. According to father, the prey of cats (e.g. mice) prowl up and down these gaps from time to time, and it wouldn’t be unheard for a predator to keep focus on the noises made for hours on end.
Case solved?
1 comment:
Very amusing, I approve.
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