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Apparantly my little kitty Lily is an American League baseball fan. How this happened amidst my collection of Brooklyn Dodgers and Los Angeles Dodgers memorabilia is beyond me, although my brother Goose, a diehard Yankees fan, has been spending some time alone with her.
Regulars to this blog might recall that a few months ago I purchased two-month old Lily, a tiger kitten, from a local pet shop. She's the first pet I've ever owned. Friends, especially a certain someone, told me that she would be a nice companion and give me love and friendship in the evenings. Yah, right!
What leads me to believe she is an American League fan, though, is that after spending all of Tuesday night watching the All-Star Game with my son Erik and me, my daughter, ahem, my kitten Lily, sweet little Lily, was planning a victory celebration like never seen on Saratoga Court.
While Erik, a forever Mets' fan, and I were inventing curse words for National League relief pitcher Trevor Hoffman, Lily was apparantly quietly laughing at our misery. Later, in the early morning hours with the house silent, except for the snoring of the two disheartened baseball fans, Lily took it upon herself to have a victory celebration. Her first move was to head for the bathroom and find a roll of toilet paper.
Observing a few sheets dangling from the holder Lily jumped up and clawed a sheet or two and decided to do a victory lap around the bathroom and into my bedroom, with a trail of another twenty yards of toilet paper following behind her. Kittens being the quiet folk that they are I had no idea that this hoopla was going on right under my snoring nose. She then decided to wrestle with the confounded toilet paper which had by now started to tangle around her. Shredding the two-ply toilet paper as if it were one-ply, she broke into some steps resembling the macarena.
By morning you can imagine the scene. Confetti-like pieces of toilet paper throughout the house. Spilled soda cans in the living room and overturned candy dishes with my Creme Savers under the couch and knocked into the kitchen.
And by morning there she lay, sprawled out on her back on the couch, like too many bottles of champagne had tossed her into a drunken stupor.
It's nice that Lily seems to love baseball so much. She is a Gagnon, that is for sure. But this American League fan business has to go. I've got three months to convince her that the National League is where it's at. After all, this is the year the Dodgers win the World Series!
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Go Lilly go. AL is gonna win the Series cause they now have "Home Field Advantage." Welcome to pet ownership, Foxy..... but that's a whole 'nother blog topic.
Posted by: Chris Heckard | July 15, 2006 5:45 AM
Darn right she's celebrating...I still owe her 20 buck on our all-star bet...as you know I had the National...tell her to chill ..i get paid Monday!
That Hoffman thing is still buggin me...he couldn't play for Nu-Way Car Wash
Posted by: the carver | July 14, 2006 7:42 PM
if they do, that will make 2 happy people in plattsburgh i know you and DT. he definitely will celebrate.
Posted by: CRICKET | July 14, 2006 7:27 AM
Foxy, you are rearing another smart youngster. Hats off to the cat for choosing wisely. I am sure that as a former teacher you presented both sides of the issue and let the critical mind decide for herself.
Posted by: applejacks | July 13, 2006 9:25 PM