Raja, our cat, is driving me bananas! What’s worse, she knows she is driving me bananas! I am playing a game of wits with a cat and losing. I’ll give you an example.

I was watching an episode of Ghost Hunters last night, that we had on our DVR. As I was sitting on the couch, I see a furry blur run over me and up the stairs. I thought I was going to have a heart attack right there! After I figured out it was Raja and not some disembodied spirit, I went upstairs to see what all the commotion was about. I looked in the first place I always look for her, under our bed.

As I near the bed, I hear this crinkling/chewing noise coming from our bedroom. I felt like I was Steve Irwin, in pursuit of the rare, but dangerous San Elijo panther, on safari in the deepest, darkest marshes of the San Elijo Lagoon! I followed the noise under the bed and “crikey, what a beauty”,  there was Raja with the wildest look in her eyes I’ve ever seen. She looked like one of those tigers you see at the zoo, not like a loving little house cat.  Honestly, she looked like she was possessed! I was waiting for her head to start spinning and to spit up some pea soup like substance, like a scene from the Exorcist! There was something in her mouth, that I fear used to be living, but couldn’t have been with the death grip Raja had on it! .

Being the man of the house, I knew I had to be the one to get this victim of Raja’s evil agenda away from her. I started by using the always popular, tride and true,”here kitty kitty kitty”. The trouble with “here kitty kitty kitty”, is that it never works, ever! She just continued to stare at me with those crazy eyes! My next move was the one I dreaded most. I had to reach my hand in and take the “post mortem whatever it was” away from her. Surprisingly, I got it away from her without getting bit. Not even a meow. Upon further inspection, I found out why there was no fuss from Raja. It wasn’t a dead anything. It was a wrapper from a Mounds bar I had eaten an hour ago!

Alas, this is what my days are like now. Trying to figure out what Raja’s next move is. Trying to stay one step ahead of a cat! My money is on the cat!

Randy