Mystery in Black & White

By BlackJack

One fine Summer night, I was sitting in the window, as I usually do, and just watching the activities outside. There was very little going on, and I had just about decided to go and have a nice catnap when I heard something making a strange noise outside. I perked up my ears then, and started peering outside, trying to see what was there. I called to my brofur and sisfur to come over too, this sounded like a critter that needed three pair of cat eyes to see.

There continued to be a weird rustling in the bushes outside, and we all looked and looked to no avail. What in the world was out there? Our kitty curiousity was piqued! We all ran to the other window to see if we could get a glimpse of this creature.

It was a very dark night though, and even our sharp eyes could see nothing. Oh, if we could just get outside! We all kept looking, running to and fro from window to window, but we could only hear the sounds the creature was making. No matter how hard we looked, we could not see anything! All three of us cats were becoming frustrated at not seeing what was out there!

One time, we thought we caught a glimpse of white, but that was the only hint we had. What could be out there??? Then, I had an idea! Let's wake meowmie up, maybe she will hear it too, and go outside and see what was there. So all three of us cats jumped up on meowmie's bed and proceeded to wake her up and pester her until she finally got up.

She figured we were hungry, but we all ran to the window and meowed loudly, then ran to the door and really began to meow for all we were worth. Our curiousity began to wear off on Meowmie, she could tell something was going on, and that there must be something outside.

She opened the door, with all of us crowding around trying to get outside to check it out purrsonally. Three pair of green eyes widened to the size of full moons when we saw what was outside. There sitting nonchalantly on the porch was a skunk! A "black and white pussycat" as some would innocently say. Oh my! We could get a whiff of the skunk smell and so could Meowmie! Luckily our mysterious visitor didn't spray us, it just sat there and looked at us with little brown eyes. It looked hungry, so of course silly Meowmie carefully put some dry cat food outside, then hurriedly closed the door.

The mystery of the rustling was finally solved, and I was sure happy we had not been able to venture outside and maybe have a smelly encounter with Mr. Skunk. We will always remember our little skunk visitor, who made such interesting noises out hunting for something to eat.