Is it any wonder.....

....I worry from time to time about the safety of one 'not so small anymore' young cat!

Her behavior has changed as she's gotten older, she no longer climbs the curtains at such regular intervals, she doesn't decimate books chewing on them and she has ceased the door climbing antics to a greater degree but this does not make for an any more peaceful life. Instead she has merely advanced to other mischief and has a particular penchant for all things electrical.


She has long had a passion for the spaghetti mess of wires at the back of the PC but now we can add to that constant attempts at removing the bulbs from the bedside lights, creating an 'oh so attractive' perforated pattern in the delicate paper shades as she does so, an obsession with jamming her not so tiny furriness atop the stereo, resulting in pitiful cries when she gets stuck and a rather worrying new delight in sleeping ontop of the television!

This small cat is a 'dribbler', she purrs incessantly and when she does she dribbles, I know, most unpleasant but it's a 'cat thang'....this would be fine, dribbling I can cope with, it at least illustrates her degree of happiness but dribbling, perched ontop of electrical items carrying high current is just not good!


It is a constant battle in her waking hours, she flies, at high velocity, around the place from one of her favoured places to another constantly, with me in hot pursuit attempting to remove her time and time again. Time out tactics don't work and she seems to know I can't squirt her with the once dreaded, but now ignored, water sprayer when her preference for naughtiness is an electrical item!

Nothing works, nothing will cause her to desist and on the very rare occasion I manage to dissuade her for a time, she turns her attentions instead to clawing at the now ruined speaker fronts! I've given up replacing things, they can wait until she has grown out of her mischief, thus far replacement has been good money after bad, I just wish she would cease taking her little life in her paws around household electrics!

This little Tilly cat is a darling, I adore her but over the months she has more than earned her now regular title of 'hell puss'!