My cat Piper has been stealing my stuffed toy otters — SPECIFICALLY OTTERS — and hiding them under a dresser!!!!
I object to this… but also, we are kindred spirits.
A certain kind of right cat can make your life so much more interesting.
Ah, the contented sleep of a cat who knows she’s successfully stolen and stashed my stuffed toy otter Algernon under the dresser again.
But also, the contented sleep of a cat who does not yet know that I’ve found Algernon, retrieved him, and hidden him from her in a drawer.
Addendum from much later: It turned out to be Hazel who was stealing the otters. Piper was, as she always insisted with her sweet little meows and giant eyes, TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY INNOCENT. Piper has, in fact, never once done anything wrong in the history of the world, which also, she invented, so she’d have somewhere to exist when she first became aware of existence.