BEADY'S BALLOON

Beady isn't even 1 yet, old enough to be snipped, but too young to have a catnip-rolling party. So instead, he ganked my birthday balloon.I'd heard about this sort of thing before. Our friend's cat absconded with her balloon, too, and carried it everywhere until it popped. Cranky's cat, MeowMeow, is only interested in the ribbon, which he severs with his fangs to watch the balloon go bye-bye. That's how last year's balloon ended up on the ceiling, where it remained for half of 2006, until it drifted down within reach.

Beeker is also mostly interested in trying to eat the ribbon, which he proceeded to chomp until I took it away from him, because Tom Kenny (the cat) has had two operations to remove string, ribbon, pieces of the floor, etc. from where it was wound around his intestines. So we here at G(A)K cannot endorse allowing your cat to huff helium and snort ribbon unsupervised.


Isn't he ferocious. I mean, cute.