I have been a busy cat.

I guess Mom is finally not mad at me any more. She’s been pretty nice. The big man is, well, still the big man. Mom is still going away a lot and I am still staying home. I get lonely and bored hanging around all day, keeping the big grey cat away and running from those stupid dogs that live in the yard behind us.

I got a card from my friend Ink for Halloween! I like getting stuff in the box where a truck leaves papers called the mailbox. Ink sent me a card a long time ago too when Sister got put under the big magnolia tree in the back. I still miss Sister. Ink and me are black cats and I heard from somebody that Halloween is not good for black cats, but I got a nice card for it. That means it is good for black cats because they get stuff in the box where a truck leaves papers called the mailbox.

I saw Mom reading on her computer about one of our friends that lives where very important liars live called Washington DC who found some mice in her house! She is mad! She doesn’t want mice in her house! She put out poison and the mice ate it and laughed! She needs a cat! I’m a cat!

I begged Mom to let me go to our friend’s house and kill all the mice. I know how to kill mice. OK, so I haven’t killed any here at our house – we don’t have any, I keep them away. But I kill those little baby moles in the yard and mice couldn’t be much different. I told Mom that I could ride in one of her little suitcases under the airplane seat and we could just go right away to the place where very important liars live called Washington DC. We could stay and visit at our friend’s house and I could kill all the mice. If there are too many for me to kill in a short visit, I could just stay a while longer and Mom could come back and get me. Then we could ride home together on a big airplane!

That would so much fun, don’t you think? Mom said no a bunch of times but I’m still bothering her about it. I have heard that people kids can just keeping bothering their moms about stuff until the moms say yes so I think I’m going to try that too. I hope it works because I really really want to go kill those mice. That would be so cool and I am a cool cat.