Cat Logic

Mau, the formerly feral cat who now rules my household, invokes plausible deniability on the charge of waking me up multiple times a night. He blames my interrupted sleep on the mockingbird that has begun singing all night just outside my window.

But, I argue, it is not the mockingbird who is meowing loudly in my ear and clawing my arm to get my attention at random intervals in the dark.

Mau asserts innocence. How could such a darling creature have malicious intent, he asks. It must be that thing with the clocks - springing ahead? - that is keeping cats and birds awake at odd hours.

Besides, a cat that wants to eat, drink and play at whatever hour is surely much better than a cat that just sits there. If that were the case, you'd have to call Confuse-A-Cat.  As it is now, all you have to do is get up and do my bidding, he says. That is, now that the mockingbird has already awakened you. And anyway, that alarm clock will be going off in, say, one or two or three hours from now. So get up!

--Bernice