Hungry Kitty
For a while now, Kitty has been brave enough to come inside the house to eat. He eats in the kitchen and then he hangs out with me for a while before I let him return outdoors. But recently I was avoiding him in a roundabout way. It had been a while since I had gone shopping for groceries. The food supply was running low, and I had also run out of cat food. I know he has a couple of food sources, so he is never going to starve in between the feedings I provide.
Still, I avoided him just so that I wouldn’t disappoint him with the news of not having food. But no matter how quietly I tiptoed towards the mailbox, he always came running towards me with his happy meow. I gave him what I had, and he didn’t seem to mind the fried rice or in sharing the scrabbled eggs, but he always gazed at me afterwards with the same where’s the beef look.
Yesterday I went shopping for groceries and I also bought Kitty his food. I fed him his favorite of sliced chicken and gravy dinner, and as a treat, I poured a saucer of milk. When he had finished eating and drinking everything, he looked quite content. He layed on the carpet and put his head on my lap and began to close his eyes.
Suddenly he got up and walked over to the door when there was a light scracthing sound. Apparently one of the other strays was on the other end of the door, probably the bully cat that picks on the other cats from time to time. Kitty sniffed at the bottom of the opening for a moment, and then he turned and looked at me with his big Kitty smile.