Tuesday, January 5, 2010

One Last Holiday Memory

You know what's funnier than being lovingly mean to a cat? Being lovingly mean to an old cat.

This is Chuckhead Bobo Thiel, aka Chuckie, Chuckie Ruckles or Big Chuck Bunny. Some of you may have known the Thiel family for years but never seen him. That's okay. He may be getting more docile in his old age, but he's still paranoid and stupid. And if you stay overnight at the house, remember to shut the downstairs bathroom door, or he'll take a dump on the bathmat to let my mom know that he's not pleased with the fact that she invited houseguests into his lair.

He is not really feeling the holiday spirit. The good news is that both mom and I agree that we don't think this is his last Christmas. Sure, he's 15 years old, but he's still got a lot of life in him. It's not like Christmas 2001, which we all knew was 17 year old Sparky's Christmas. That year, when I got up from the table to go grab something out of the kitchen during dinner, I came back to find him on my chair, eating scraps of roast beast off of my plate. I put him on the floor, but later in the meal he climbed up on the table and (cat haters please stop reading)... started eating roast directly off of the serving platter. Did we stop him? Did we yell at him? Of course not! We are crazy cat people! We got out our cameras and took pictures of him. And then when dad finally voiced his objections, we moved him and a chunk of meat off into the kitchen. Sorry Chuckie, since we don't anticipate you expiring during 2010, you'll have to suffer the hat and get denied the fancy snacks, my friend.

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