Moggie Madness

Meet Mojo, possibly the narkiest, worst-behaved yet oddly affectionate cat in the known world. If you think you can beat him, by all means let me know. I first met Mojo when he was a wee little kitten around six weeks old and butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth. He arrived on my doorstep in a box from a well-intentioned person who clearly has not read the RSPCA’s advisories about giving pets to people as gifts. Well I could hardly turn away this bundle of fluff and he was very cute. So in November 1998 in a house that had been pretty much cat free for around ten years since the passing of our previous cat, Mojo came to turn our house and lives upside down. Let me say here, I have NEVER had a kitten before Mojo. Both of our previous cats, Sammy and Puss were fully grown adult cats. And while they both had their quirks and personality (as do all cats IMO), they were fairly sedate and set in their behaviours. They were predictable. Not so with Mojo.

Mojo has broken his fair share of things in the time that I still lived at home. A pottery pot planter that my father made before he died (and thus a sentimental object in my mum’s eyes), countless glasses, ceramic feed bowls, photoframes. You name it, even if it’s in a hard to reach place, he has probably broken it. He makes it his mission to get to the highest point in the house and will not be deterred….he can catapult himself to the top of the tallest object he can find. So far the record is around 7.5ft to the top of a rather large free standing bookcase.

After a few years of staying with mum when I moved out of home, Mojo has come to live with me again. Being an indoor cat with outdoor priveliges, we decided that he would need somewhere to escape the confines of the indoors yet somewhere he would still be safe…so now he has his very own kitty palace. I have to say, that hasn’t stopped him from turning our lounge suite into a relatively expensive cat scratching post…..but such is life when you live with cats.

And here he is, possibly at his most favourite activity in the whole world…..destroying stuff! Thank goodness this time it was only some bills instead of an assignment for uni. And for those of you who wonder whether the old “dog ate my homework” excuse works….well I can’t say for certain about dogs but it doesn’t fly too well that your cat destroyed it. LOL

Tags: Cats, Mojo

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