My Ragdoll Cat Adventures Part Three

9th Aug Blog Post 231 Surprising Tom

On Saturday last weekend, Tom surprised me. We had finished our walk in the garden and I was gathering them all to bring them in. Tom was in the catio sat on the box and refused to come down so I thought I will leave him out there for a bit. I closed the door though. I got the others inside. I was keeping an eye on Tom as I was sorting a few bits in the kitchen. The other boys were sat by the patio door. Then I looked up and Sammy the squirrel was on the feeder that is closest to the catio. Tom was transfixed and watching him. Then Sammy must of got wind of Tom as he suddenly jumped off the feeder and went running along the fence to boyfriends garden next door. Tom went nutty (pardon the pun) and jumped down from the box and was pawing at the catio door. I went out and opened the door and he straight away ran to the fence to look for Sammy. I grabbed him (just in case he did try to jump) and carried him inside. He really surprised me as he has never shown any interest in the squirrel before and he certainly never runs after things. He is very lazy. It was almost as if, as the other boys were not there it was up to him to chase off the squirrel!

The other out of character behaviour was Jack waking me up on Saturday. Normally it is Leo or Charlie, sometimes Tom. I woke up to Jack meowing at me sitting on my chest. I thought something was wrong. He seemed okay and everyone else was fine. Probably Jack had had enough of my snoring!