If you've been following TFBOMGG for any length of time, you probably know that Celia, Miss Ginger's housekeeper, speaks very little English. She understands more than she speaks, so with some pointing, posing, and dramatic hand gestures, Miss G can usually communicate well enough to get a garment starched, some silver polished, or a pot scrubbed. Aside from those histrionics, the pleasantries rarely go beyond "hola" and "buenos noches".
But today, she said to Miss Ginger in the best queen's English: "Big kitty pee pee."
Oye! Apparently, Jackson felt like he needed some points in the reality game show that is their life:
In this week's episode, cattestants Jackson and Shelby are left alone with the housekeeper, which always makes for exciting television since they don't speak Spanish and she doesn't speak cat. Their "QuikMess Challenge" today was a group project to see who could kick the most litter out of the box between the time Ginger vaccuumed it up for the 12th time and Celia showed up for work. The winner was Jackson, who used a two-footed technique with 2 feet in the box and 2 feet out, allowing maximum paw surface for flinging the largest amounts of litter in the shortest time.
The Elimination Challenge was to see which cat could eliminate the most waste in the most inconvenient place at the most inconvenient time. Again, Jackson reigned supreme by managing to urinate on an unwashable faux-fur pillow just seconds before it was time for the housekeeper to leave for the night. Shelby thought she had that one in the bag with her wet furball on the bathmat after Ginger's shower, but Jackson one-upped her by the end of the challenge.
Tune in next week to see just how many times our cattestants can run between Miss Ginger's legs on her midnight run to the potty!
When the news today reported that a "bobcat" had been spotted in a dowtown parking garage, Miss Ginger figured "someone's brown kitty musta got out! Lucky mine's too lazy to walk downtown and doesn't have enough money for the bus!"
As it turns out, it was a real bobcat, like this one! I know it looks all cuddly and cute, but that's 30 pounds of hungry, wild cat that's not used to being around people! Apparently, they are native to the outlying areas around here, and it is suspected that he wandered in along the bayous and found a cozy spot to spend the night! They had to tranquelize it to safely remove him, and he has since been relocated to a state park nearby.
