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Caturday Pootie Diary: Singing loud for all to hear [1]
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Date: 2022-12-17
“What’s that?” Freddie asked, looking up at me.
“What?”
“You were humming.”
I thought about it. “I guess I was.”
“Sing it,” he demanded.
“Umm…okay, sure.
“Dashing through the snow
“In a one horse open sleigh – “
“What’s a sleigh?”
“It’s a thing you sit in so a horse can pull you through the snow.
“Sounds dreadful.”
I laughed.
“The song should be about real things. Not made up horses and snow,” he sniffed.
“Those are not made up things.”
“I’ve never seen them.”
“You don’t leave the house.”
“Sing it better!”
I sucked in a breath and blew it out, thinking. I opened my mouth and started singing again:
“Dashing through the house
“On a catnip fueled high
“Up the stairs he goes
“Meowing all the way”
“That’s much better,” he said.
“It doesn’t rhyme and it’s not very Christmas-y,” I observed shaking my head.
“Keep going!” he said, bumping my side with his head.
“Ok, let me start over.
“Dashing room to room
“On a catnip fueled high
“Up the stairs he vrooms
“Yelling ‘CHRISTMAS IS NIGH!”
I shook my head again. “That’s not right either.”
“Keep going!” he called again.
“Bells on cat toys ring
“Chased on a catnip high
“What fun it is to meow and sing
“A toy hunting song tonight!”
“This is great,” he gushed. “Does he catch the toy? Is there a bird in it? Does the catnip feel so good?”
Trying not to laugh, I belted out:
“JINGLE TOY, JINGLE TOY, JINGLE TOY ALL THE WAY
“OH WHAT FUN IT IS TO CHASE
“ON A MISSION TO FIND AND SLAY!”
“We should find one of my bell toys,” he said, standing up.
“You don’t think the end of that song was a little dark?”
He stretched (“Oh gooooooood stretch!”) and straightened, looking around. “I’ve got to find and slay,” he murmured. “Because it’s Christmas.”
“I think you took a weird lesson from this.”
He ran out of the room calling over his shoulder, “Get the catnip, human! It’s Christmas!”
I looked longingly at the fire and rose, turning toward the kitchen where the potted plant was kept.
Later that night, both of us tired with exercise and catnip drop, we cuddled on the couch and watched the Christmas tree. “That was much more fun than some made up sleigh and horse,” he told me.
“Those aren’t made up things,” I reminded him.
“Have you ever sat in a sleigh and got pulled by horse?”
I thought about it. “No,” I said. “But it doesn’t really snow here and it’s not the Victorian era anymore.”
“It’s much better to eat catnip and chase a ball than it is to get in a made up contraption and pulled by an imaginary creature.”
I opened my mouth to correct him, then closed it again. Did it really matter if he believed me? “I think you’ve found the true meaning of Christmas,” I said.
“Catnip,” he agreed.
Happy Caturday, Peeps! Freddie and I are getting into the spirit by singing Christmas carols at the top of our lungs, fa la la la la, LA LA LA LA!
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