There is (barely) a writing-related point to this post, which is as follows: It’s Friday morning: do you know where your characters are? Do you know as much about your protagonist as I know about my cat?
1. Rumble is willing to pretend to follow a small but fixed number of rules. Since we have been strictly enforcing the ‘no jumping on Minnow’ rule, he has decided he is no longer banned from the kitchen.
2. The one commercially available toy that Rumble will always play with is the Silly Kitty hemp mouse, which, according to Sophie’s Pet Palace, is about to be unavailable forever.
3. Rumble was named for the very loud kitten purr that we almost never hear anymore; as an adult, his purr is very grunty.
4. But once, late at night a couple years ago, I woke and he was doing it, purring like a motorboat between our sleeping heads.
5. When we got back from Alberta after the worst of the family funerals, he slept, for one night, with his cheek on mine.
6. There are three identical hairbrushes in my house. Two are mine and one is Rum’s. If he sees me brushing my hair, he looks beseechingly at me and meows and meows and meows.
7. If Kelly is braiding my hair, he’ll sit up on a stool in front of me so I can simo-brush him. He will get up on the stool if he sees us fetching hair elastics. He will come running if I bang the hairbrush on the stool.
8. Rumble will often come if we call Minnow’s name. Because why should she get any love? (I think you can guess what happens if we call his name.)
9. Sometimes if we’ve both been gone awhile and have come home, he’ll forget we’re back, and go to the door and cry for us.
10. He loves David Attenborough’s The Life of Birds
11. He can’t count to ten and probably doesn’t want to know ten things about your pet, but I might.
12. Even when he is hogging my office chair, he is pretty photogenic.
