Death by rabies

It’s bedtime, and I’m scared.

Last night I had a nightmare that turned out to be true, and I’m afraid it’s going to happen again.

This creepy cat has been living on our balcony for the past month. We always shoo it away but it keeps coming back. It peers in the windows at us and meows for hours. HOURS, I tell you. And it’s that horrible constant really loud meowing that you can’t tune out. Plume is going crazy, Sophie’s going crazy, we’re all going crazy.

It’s getting pretty warm around here and since we don’t have air conditioning, I like to open my full length bedroom window for some air circulation, especially at night. Unfortunately the window happens to lead out on to the balcony. This means I have to also keep dragging Plume back inside, since she’s made it her mission to investigate the intruder that lurks around out there. She’s sneaky though, so sometime she makes it out to the balcony undetected and it isn’t until I hear the two cats fighting that I realize what’s going on. Hissing, spitting, deafening meows…lately, this has become the soundtrack to my life [Well, cat sounds as well as the Lady Gaga song Born this way, which our neighbors seem to enjoy listening to at full volume on repeat for hours on end].

I don’t know why this cat gives me the creeps, but it just does. It’s eerie…maybe because it’s solid black with really light green eyes. It also seems very wild. Last night around 3am [Isn’t that the witching hour or something?] I woke up really hot during the night and decided to open the doors for some cool air. I fell back asleep and was having a dream that the creepy cat wandered into my room, loudly meowing and intently staring at me with its pale green eyes while plotting my demise for no good reason.

Something startled me and I woke up abruptly only to discover that the cat WAS in my room, a couple feet from my face, creepily staring at me with its pale green eyes! It’s hard to say for sure whether or not it was actually plotting my demise, but I’m leaning toward the affirmative on this one, and it was definitely for no good reason.

So tonight, I’m weighing my options…risk death by rabid cat or play it safe and overheat? 

Plume- The cat that doesn't freak me out...usually.

Constant companion

Resting up for epic "Good v. Evil" battle against creepy black cat