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Zak and Zelda Meet
Its funny, looking at a pet door from the outside, when
you don't know what pet the door belongs to can be frightening.
What if the door belongs to some vicious bull dog name Bruiser?
What if Bruiser likes to tear cats up and bring their back half
to their masters. Now, thought Zelda, "That is a scary thought. I
am glad I am not a squirrel."
Nevertheless, hunger was getting the better of her
otherwise good cat sense. He thick black coat had become straggly
and matted. She was now very thin and a bit mangy. She had
always been a cat that wanted to stay in shape and be thin so she could
attract the appropriate Tom cat at some point. Exile had driver
her to the edge of thinness. She could now be considered
anorexic. In fact, her stomach had shrunk so much from her time
in the wilderness that she had lost the ability to eat big meals.
The door beaconed with its ultrawide span. She
waited most of the day to see what would come out of the door within a
door. "Whatever pet that was, it could certainly hold its pee. "
She thought. "Maybe.", she hoped, "It was a cat with a litter box, not
some cat eating monster. " A dark decended, she ventured into the
house.
Carefully, Zelda pushed in the pet door. It's flap
seemed to move stiffly as if it was not used very much. Inside,
she could see the kitchen and the counters towering above her over the
dimly lit tile floor. As she pushed her thin body through the
door the springs closed tightly on her tail making her think that she
was caught. She jerked her body and her tail away from the door
and launched herself into one of the lower cabinets. Bouncing of
the cabinet door and scrambling to get he feet under her, the door
opened and the largest bag of cat feed Zelda had ever seen tumbled down
over her.
With her feet flying, throwing cat food pellets all over
the kitchen she slid into the living room and then tumbled into a huge
pillow. Her she froze. When she looked up in the shadowy
light she could see the largest cat apparition that ever existed
towing over her on top of the pillow. Zak staired down at the
mangy black scrawny cat and cleared his throat.
Copyright - Keith Risman - Oct. 2006
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Zak
and Zelda 
