Hi. I’m MacKenzie.
I have never been so disrespected before. My day has been simply outrageous. Awful. Horrible. Beyond belief. The Mother of Cats needs to take action!
Cosmos is the cat next door. He sneaks over to MY yard and TAUNTS ME through the back garden window. Yellow Boy uses some simply shocking language while Cosmos is at the window, but I prefer to be direct. I will eat you, Cosmos! I will stick my claws into your tail so hard you will wish it could fall off…
I mean, if you are a cat with superior intellect, why not show off with some creative threats?
So, when Cosmos appeared on MY back fence this week I jumped right up there to give him a piece of my mind. The Mother of Cats trained me years ago to not jump the fence, but this was an extreme emergency. Cosmos ran like the wind to get away from me and I chased him right down the fence and out of my yard.
Like seriously, I was on the fence of the next yard over. I’d never been this far out of the yard because the Mother of Cats never lets me go anywhere interesting. Well, what should a curious cat do? I jumped down.
I couldn’t jump the fence to go home, and I couldn’t get past the dog to leave the yard. Cosmos headed into his house for a nap and I was stuck hanging out behind the storage shed for OVER AN HOUR waiting for the Mother of Cats to notice that I needed help. How could she neglect my needs this way?
Finally the Mother of Cats arrived. The dog was put away, and she GRABBED me by the scruff of the neck, put me onto the fence, and then WHACKED me to force me to jump back into my yard. OK, I may have been snarling just a little bit while she was doing this. I was upset!!
The Mother of Cats tells me that I can only go out into the yard in the mornings from now on because she needs to be there with me. What? Doesn’t she think I can take care of myself? What disrespect! I can’t believe that she is acting this way. I’m not sure that she really loves me any more.
But she always gives me cookies when we come in from outside.
And the best places to sleep ARE in the house.
Cosmos hasn’t come back all week, so maybe I don’t need to be out there after all. Besides, there are thunderstorms every afternoon with rain, thunder and hail. Thunder is scary!
I’m such a good boy.
Can I have some cookies now?
>^..^<
Notes from the Mother of Cats: The city where I live (Aurora, Colorado) has a leash law for cats; they are not allowed to run free. When I first rescued MacKenzie I installed a cat containment system from Invisible Fence and trained MacKenzie to not jump out of the back yard. He learned very quickly and hasn’t jumped for years. He has been known to jump the fence during a cat fight, but once that is over his training kicks in and he won’t jump to came back home, and is afraid of the fence when I try to put him back over it. He loves being outdoors, so from now on I’ll stay with him to supervise whenever he is outside.
Yellow Boy has never jumped the fence, and I didn’t have to train him. He is a cat with limited courage…
It has rained here for days, and the dog next door is a clever boy; he hangs out on the trampoline to stay dry. I’m waiting for him to learn tricks.
Yarn, Books & Roses 
Oh MacKenzie I’m so glad you’re home safe. The big world beyond the fence can be very dangerous! Try to be an extra good boy and don’t frighten your mother:)
You must have been so worried! I’m glad MacKenzie is home safe:)
I saw him go over the fence, and I did hope that he would manage to jump back on his own, but nope. I’m glad that I saw it happen and knew where to go look for him. Poor guy.
Cosmos owners are really nice and are now keeping him in at night.
Now perhaps the Mother of Cats will know how you feel 🙂
I’m pretty sure she got the message. There was a cat fight outside in the wee hours of the morning, and now she’s as frustrated and outraged as I am.
MacKenzie, sounds like you need me to visit to give you some lovin’. Hang in there!
Thank you. I need many hugs and COOKIES! >^..^<