OK, I will write about a weird cat. Our "kitten", Neko-chan, has decided she likes to play fetch. She will jump up on the bed with one of her toys, put it down and cry loudly until one of us throws it for her to chase. She leaps off the bed in a mad dash for the things, fights madly with it and then proudly carries it back to be thrown again.

For a while her favorite activity was to jump into the bathtub immediately after one of us finished a shower. She liked to watch the last of the water sluice down the floor of the tub. Now she has given up on that. Instead she has discovered the toilet bowl. She sits on the seat and dips her paw in the water. When she's done the seat is wet and muddy from the dirt on her paws (At least I HOPE it's dirt.) It's worse than living with a teenage boy.

God help us if she decides she's alone. She sits in the empty room and cries loudly until we either go in to her or call her from the other room.

Then there are the gekkoes. The two cats, Neko and Mama, are death for any gekko foolish enough to move down the walls within reach of the claws and teeth. What really frustrates the cats is the gekkoes on the outside of the windows. The lizards are only trying to catch moths attracted to the house lights. The cats watch and leap and scratch and race back and forth in their attempt to catch the little buggers. This is amusing when we are watching TV and the cats are across the room. It is somewhat less amusing when we are asleep and the cats use our heads to launch their attacks. And when they don't use our heads then they sit on the windowsill watching and lashing their tails back and forth smacking us with something that feels like an angry furry snake.

These cats have very long tails. Their tails are very active, much more so than any other cat I have known. Neko is a very strange cat. I've never known one like her before.