Introoder in the Garden!

I was out in the garden late the other night and suddenly mum heard yowling and swearing so she ran out with the torch. She saw me on the hedge puffed up to more than ten times my usual size, then she saw the introoder inside our purrison fence. It was shadowy and the torch was a bit dim so she isn't sure whether it was a fox or a floofy dark brown cat. Dad said it was more likely a cat because it would be harder for a fox to get over the fence. Mum yelled and it ran off under the bushes. I went to chase it but she yelled louder and told me to go indoors. After a while my fur went back down and I had some supper, but my tail refused to de-floof.

Mum's note: The fence is eight feet high and not easy for the boys to climb over as the horizontal timbers are on the outside so they can't get a foot hold to get over. However that makes it easier for cats on the outside to get in although that has only happened twice as far as we know.

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The Tale of a Tail on Tuesday.

Flynn: Do you see how my tail and back is all poofed up? We were taking mum for a walk and she was in one field with Eric and I was walking up to the next one. They were coming to catch up with me because she doesn't like us going off on our own. When she came around the corner she saw I was stalking something. Then she saw it! A BLACK INTROODER CAT!!! She called for me to come back because we never see other kitties close up and she didn't know what I would do, but I was gone! I chased him up the field, over the hedge and up the next field. Mum was screaming at me to come back by then because there is an old disused gate that leads into our country lane and she was scared I would run out and a car would come along. I chased the introoder all the way to the gate. Mum doesn't know if I went out in the road or not and I'm not telling.

When I was sure he had gone, I went back to tell mum all about it.

Then I told Eric what had happened. This was what we were whispering about on Wordless Wednesday.

Eric said he would check that the introoder hadn't come back but I told him I was sure he wouldn't be back in a hurry.

Eric said he would check anyway and he put his hackles up so he would look fierce.

While he was gone I rested on some stones to get my breath back.

I saw Eric on his favourite lookout post on the hedge. He said that he could smell introoder there and I told him that was where I chased him over the hedge into the next field. We decided then that it was safe to take mum back home to get our supper.

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The Friday Flashback.

This week the Friday Flashback is from October 2007 and it is called:

INTROODERS.


I am watching furry keerfully out of the window because I can see an introoder. Can yoo see it by the right side of my ear?

It's a squirrel and it's eating all the nuts and seeds that the birds haf dropped.

Oh no! look there's two of them now. I wish I could git at them.See that white blob in the middle of the pikchur? It's where a dirty birdie pooped on the window.

Goodbye Mr. Squirrel,I hope yoo come back when I'm outdoors.

More Smells.

This is the other side of our purrison fence. There is a gate just out of sight on the right of us and that is the way mum takes us for our walks. When we go out, we are supposed to go straight to the fields but we made mum wait for us cuz we suddenly smelled an interesting smell.


Yup, there has definitely been another introoder around since yesterday. We don't recognise the smell but the Beans have seen a black kitty up by the road gate. They don't think it is a stray though because it looks welll fed. It probably comes from the village to the fields to hunt. It is only about half a mile away across the fields.


Flynn: You know what you keep telling me about strange smells don't you Eric.


Eric: Yup. I've said it before and I'll say it again. If in doubt, pee on it.