Your love, it burns my skin

Humans: it is I, Trollop. We must talk. About the way your 'love' causes me physical and mental distress.

You must first understand something: when you cuddle me, or put me in warm places, or give me the soft wet food that contains those succulent little bits of liver or whatever, it makes me tingle. It is unpleasant. Unpleasant in ways I find difficult to express in your unwieldy ape language.

Firstly, the lung spasms. When you scratch under the strap that encircles my neck (unbearably tightly, I might add), my breathing quickens and little rhythmic growls emanate from my chest. Normally, humans, growls are fine--I take great pride in my pitch control, my volume, and my capacity to produce a prolonged expression of utter vocal disdain. But these forced growls are not of my doing. What's worse, your efforts to disrupt my breathing with your 'love' appear to have a positive feedback component to them--in that the more I suffer them, the greater your efforts to elicit them.

And when you speak to me in those accursed soft tones, and scrape the repulsive pink flesh of your human forepaws across my back or under my chin or behind my ears, my leonine muscles lose their rigidity and I go weak. I can only attribute it to some bizarre chemical interaction between your weak, soft human meat and my superior feline meat. As with matter and antimatter, perhaps the universe abhorrs contact between our antithetical physical states. If only you felt the pain of it as I do. If only I could make you feel it.

Whenever I find myself in this humiliating state I try to warn you of your imminent doom by extending my claws and salivating profusely. This is done to signify my desire to eat your face. I am certain you notice; you comment on it endlessly in those intolerably condescending human words. Ironically, though, when I give you these warning signals, you only seem to redouble your efforts to torture me.

So we come to the point: I can take no more. I have consulted my repulsive human lawyers. Your papers will be served shortly.

Mister Squirrel

"Oh, hello, Mister Squirrel. I didn't even see you there. Why don't you come down and we can have a nice cup of tea together."

(Pictures of Orwell are rare; he is afraid the camera will steal his soul.)

"OH HEY MISTER SQUIRREL come back I didn't mean to throw my tea at you or swipe my claws at your face. Please come back."

"Mmm, that was a tasty dinner." [licks paw] "Human, do you have any club soda? I'm not sure how to get blood stains out of my fur...."

How to annoy your human

When you hear the humans' car coming, run alongside them to get their attention, then jump in front of the car as it turns into the driveway. Walk re-he-HEE-ly slowly while they edge up toward the garage. Then, when they want to pull up the last five feet, stop, sit, and lick your paw. While they pound on the steering wheel and say bad words, pretend you can't hear them and roll over on your back. (For some reason they find this irresistibly cute. Humans — so easy to manipulate.) They'll give up, park, and just shake their heads as they get out to scratch your belly.

Oooh. Oooooooh. Yeah, scratch it, bitch. Okay, I'm done now so I'm going to chomp your hand.

Orwell ejects from underneath the porch

snooze

Rumble, rumble.

stretch

blink, blink

Ooh, I hear a sound! I hate sounds! They scare me! Oh, it's that great big gray thing the guy and girl drive sometimes, but that mostly sits off to the side of the garage! I hate that thing! Trollop always pees on its tires! Trollop scares me! Glad I'm hiding under the porch here! Here comes the guy! And here comes the girl! Sometimes she scares me! And —

HOLY MOTHER OF EARTH WHAT THE BLAZES IS THAT!? It's big and green and it looks like a tree but TREES DON'T MOVE LIKE THAT! Shit! Shit! Shit!

My name is Trollop, and I hate you

Lookit. First of all, we're going to set some ground rules:

1. We both acknowledge that I absolutely hate you, and will never stop absolutely hating you.
2. The only thing I think about all day, every day, is opening your abdominal cavity with my claws and eating your major organs and sleeping in the nice warm hole I leave.
3. Remember, I hate you.

Aside from the above very simple points, I could not care less about you. In fact, why are you here? Go away. Go over there, pour me some food, then scratch my neck. I SAID SCRATCH MY NECK, BITCH

*purr*

New beds

OH MY HEAD HE'S PETTING ME! LIFE IS SO GOOD!

I can go from cute and cuddly to fangs and claws in .00003 seconds.

Orwell, one minute ago

HOLY COW the door is OPENING! This means they're going to FEED ME! It's the man! Oh, I want him to PET ME! I'll jump up on the railing so he'll rub my butt just above the tail! I love it when he rubs me there! Okay, I'm getting ready to jump! Must crouch and wiggle my butt as I size up the jump, EVEN THOUGH I DO IT EVERY DAY! Wiggle, wiggle! Okay, jump! Oh, shit! Must hold on! Front legs...slipping! Back legs...scrambling, grappling! Okay, I'm up! Whew, that was close! Okay, I'm ready for my butt to be rubbed! Rub my butt! Human, QUIT LAUGHING AND RUB MY BUTT!