Last night, at our friend Bob’s birthday party, Captain Rufus
the cat made an appearance with a large rodent dangling from his mouth. “Oh
look,” his wife Nancy exclaimed, “Rufus has brought you a gift!” This is a
family that loves their cats.
Nonetheless, Nancy got up to instruct the Captain where to put it, and he exited out the cat door he’d so proudly just entered. “Rufus is the best hunter of all the cats,” Nancy explained. He’s missing an eye, which makes this feat even more remarkable. I told Diana, Nancy’s daughter and my daughter-in-law, that perhaps she could sew him a little eye patch. With a name like “Captain Rufus,” it only seems right. I enjoyed the image, but we decided that convincing him to wear it might take some dangerous doing.
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