I shoved their food and water to them under there and every day pulled out their cat box and beds to give them clean ones. They were both black and hard to see under the bed, but their bowls were emptied and the litter box was used so I know they were alive and well under there.
Eventually they started coming up to the edge of the bed and I tried really hard to tell one black cat from the other. But it wasn’t until they finally came out that I could see that Endora was a bit smaller and rounder than Sam. Soon, they started to sleep on my bed. Sam would drool in my neck and Endora would wrap herself around my head.
One day they discovered a new game…it was called “Torture Maude,” they would park themselves in front of the bed and block her being able to jump up. Maude would throw herself to the floor, rolling and screaming in frustrated husky hysteria and Sam and Endora discovered they had power… which they did not realize before they upset an old big baby dog.
It took a little while longer but one day, Sam and Endora left the bedroom and sat out in the hall. Several months later they moved into the kitchen and took over the counter by the sink. They slept together in their very own bed, right smack in the middle of things.
Sam died a couple of years ago. Since then Endora has continued to be our counter cat. I am pretty sure that except for a few times when she accidently fell off, her feet have not really touched the floor by choice, in more than a year. She has her bed and her food and water bowls, she even has her litter box up there. She now shares her bed sometimes with Harrison but I think that is just because he occasionally sneaks his butt in.
Endora is a lovely cat, she is a great kitchen sink buddy. She sings and chats and purrs away whenever you are washing the dishes or filling the bleach buckets and water pails. Because she chose the most human accessible location, I am pretty sure she gets the most kisses around here. |
