Sam Defends the Homeland

Sam fends off the Evil Cat From Next Door, who persists in visiting despite the obvious lack of welcome . . .

Actually, the cat belongs to one of the neighbors, and he's probably a perfectly nice animal—in fact, he used to come over and sit companionably with Mr. Poozle on top of the truck, but Sam has decided that he is Satan incarnate and whenever the two of them meet there is a great deal of sound and fury (probably signifying nothing, but who knows?).

I have no idea what his name is, so we simply refer to him as The Joe Cat, as in "The Joe Cat is eating up all the catfood on the back porch again!" He's much larger than any of ours, even Mr. Poozle—Joe and his wife feed their animals very well indeed. They have two ancient golden retrievers; a youngish black lab is under the misapprehension that the road in front of their house belong to him and moves at the last possible moment with obvious reluctance when we have the temerity to want to actually drive on it (not to worry; it's possible to drive on our road at a blinding 15 mph if you don't mind having your teeth rattled and your head hitting the car ceiling from the bumps, but most of us creep along at a more sedate 5 mph or so); and at least four cats, all of whom are exceedingly wellfed. Only the one visits us, though, and he scarfs up anything edible whenever he does.

Unless The Mighty Sam, Defender of the Homeland, spots him first . . .

Comments

[Kai Naconi]

Wooohoooo! Sam's the MAN - er - the CAT! Defending his homeland against terrorists who eat up his food and take up his porch space! Take THAT, Dubya! The RIGHT man (or cat) for the job will ALWAYS succeed! HA! ................................ oops. Got carried away, didn't I? LOVE the photo of Sam (and the visiting kitty, too!)

[Tess]

Maybe you could lend him out to the Government to protect it from all those nasty dangerous bloggers out there...

[JudiA]

Sigh... I meant to be clever, but I see that all my best one-liners have been taken already. So much for originality, LOL! Seriously though, I wish all of our "sound and fury" would accomplish as much with as little *real* mayhem. Go Sam!