Both of our cats love being outside and will take whatever opportunity they can to get outside. However, of the two, Ala Spit is the more determined to get outside. She has figured out how to open up any screen in the house by laying her weight against it until it pops up, and in the bathroom can open the little window if it’s open just a crack and get out the screen in there as well. I’ve come home from work and found the back door inexplicably open - certain that I closed all the doors before I left for work. It continues to be unsettling to come home to an open window or door and this will be resolved (the door, at least - I’ve already resolved the window problem and lock all the windows before I leave the house).

However, one day recently I came home from a trip to the grocery store and found the back door ajar. I came in and as I always do if a door is open, I peeked around the house to see if anything was out of order. There was nothing unusual until I got in the living room and opened the vertical blinds.

There was a rabbit on my doorstep. My hunter had escaped and brought me her prize, a white rabbit, now dirty, ratty, with matted fur.

Since then she has been acting somewhat unusually, pacing around the house around midnight, loudly yowling.Tonight I got ready to go back to the movies (Harry Potter 5 was ruined last night by an incompetent person who couldn’t figure out how to play the movie properly so the first half hour or so was ruined by either being cut off, overstretched, or by being without audio. So we got free tickets to see it again tonight in the theater where hopefully we’ll actually get to see the whole movie.) and when I came out of the bathroom from doing my hair, Spitty Kitty was at it again, loudly yowling in the living room. I tiptoed down the hallway until I caught a glimpse of what was causing her unusual behavior.

She dragged the rabbit that had appeared on my doorstep a week earlier inside and stood pushing it with her nose, yelling at it for what I can only begin to imagine.

And I thought my kids were weird.