Ok, so we have threads with funny holiday stories. And we have funny Pet stories. Now we have this.
I start with two.
I was in my early 20’s, probably right before I met the Woman of my Dreams, and left the house. Mom and dad got two new kittens - Siamese. Pancho and Cisco.
Cisco was as athletic a cat as I have ever seen. That boy could make the top of the china cabinet from the floor by the time he was 9 months.
One night, my dad was out of town on business, mom and I heard a loud “whooosh” noise from the living room. Get up, run to see what’s the matter, and see Cisco clinging for dear life to the tree he just managed to knock over trying to climb it.
Ok, that was one night. Three days later is Christmas. Mom under the tree pulling things out from under when Cisco lands on her back. He had apparently managed to learn to climb the tree w/o bringing it down. Took mom 5 minutes to calm down and quit screaming.
Story two:
Mom’s family, in Iowa, Thanksgiving Day. My mom grew up with 10 siblings, two blocks from where their 10 first cousins lived. Two sisters, and their 21 kids. Yike.
Probably 1978-79 somewhere in there. Four - 20 pound plus turkeys on tap for a houseful of people. We’re all at Uncle Frank’s house, doing Thanksgiving things. We eat dinner more or less in shifts, there are so many of us.
Two things are important to remember. Uncle Frank lives on a large piece of land, and boards horses. he also has a few cats wandering the grounds.
The other important fact is that on this day, it was cold.
So, after dinner, there’s some leftover on a couple turkeys, but no room in the fridge. Someone’s bright idea was to leave the birds, covered in foil, outside.
FF about an hour. I’m sitting next to the window by the back door in the TV room, look out the window and see the foil on one of the turkey’s moving. I dismiss it, thinking it’s the wind. Look back a few minutes later, and see a tail sticking out from under the foil.
I started laughing, and my uncle asks what’s so funny. I could barely keep my composure enough to tell him that I think their turkey grew a tail.
He runs outside screaming, grabs the turkey, the foil flies off and all we see is the ass-end of the cat sticking out of the chest cavity of the turkey. Uncle screaming, cat backing out of bird, mouth full of food, then running like hell.
Nobody got leftovers to take home that year.