MY BOGGY BLOG: find your way through the murk

Bella

We've never had a neighborhood cat like Bella before. Our next-door neighbors own two cats, and one of them is a black long-haired, green-eyed beauty named Bella. She used to be a stray, so she has a lot of interesting ways of charming herself into your life.

First of all, she's very friendly, coming over to say hi and beg for a petting whenever we come out of the house. She tries to milk the pettings for all she can, content to have you sit on your steps and pet her for a l-o-n-g time.

Bella has devoloped quite a reputation around the neighborhood for inviting herself into any home she can get into. She has sneaked into our house many times, waiting by the door and making a dash for it when I'm getting the mail. Or when I'm trying to get into the house and need to unlock the door. Once inside, she finds great hiding places like the kids' messy rooms, or upstairs where we have unfinished spaces. Once she was upstairs in a crawl space and we couldn't get her out. So I left the door to the upstairs open, and 45 minutes later she come downstairs. Other neighbors have told us of Bella's visits to their homes. I heard she even spent an afternoon napping with one neighbor!

The worst was when she sneaked into our van when I was unpacking groceries. I didn't know she was in there until I opened the car 5 hours later and she jumped out. Thank goodness it wasn't a hot day or we would have had a cooked cat in the car, instead of the little "present" she left instead.

She likes to hang out in our backyard, too. I didn't realize we had any mice back there until I'd seen Bella skulking around my weedy garden. She'd pounce and come up with a mouse in her mouth, which she went onto play with.

I would like to get a cat someday, but right now we really can't. So until then, it seems like we have a cat anyway, since Bella has adopted us. Thank you Ms. Bella!

Posted by sapphire at October 19, 2004 09:14 PM