Day 291: That Damn Cat!

After work tonight Addie and I went to fetch Benny and bring him to Addie's place. Benny is Katie's cat, and since she's going to be staying at her friends' place for the next while until a new apartment can be found for her, Addie's gonna be taking care of him.

Benny is a large and affectionate black and brown striped cat. And he does NOT like to be shoved into duffle bags, let me tell you, as I found out the hard way tonight!

Our original plan was just to carry him over the few blocks it is to Addie's place, but he's a very squirmy cat and doesn't like to be held for longer than a few seconds. There's no way that we'd be able to carry him in our arms across the Village without him wriggling his way out. And once we lost him on the streets, we'd never be able to find him again!

Well after attempting to wrap him in towels and blankets to calm him down while we held him, we realized that this just wasn't going to work. He was NOT going to Addie's place in one of our arms, no matter what he was wrapped in! After several failed attempts of this he ran under Katie's bed and would not come out for love or money. And during this scuffle I ended up getting one of my hands mauled by his savage claws! Argh! We tried to woo him out from under the bed but had no luck. He no longer trusted either of us (and for good reason! haha!) We even left the apartment for ten or fifteen minutes hoping he'd calm down and come out from under the bed, but after returning to the apartment and seeing him still under the bed, we gave up on that idea.

At this point we decided to leave him for a while and went to Wal-Mart to do a grocery run. We were gone over an hour and after shopping we once again went back to try again to get that damn cat out of Katie's and into Addie's apartment. When we got to Katie's Benny seemed like he had 'forgotten' about our previous blanket/towel torturous transportation methods and came out from under the bed. This time we were prepared. Addie had brought a duffle bag, and so we grabbed that cat and shoved him quickly into the bag and zipped it up.

Benny was SO NOT impressed!

He meowed and howled and screamed and growled but there was no way we were letting him out til we got to Addie's. So there we were, walking through the streets of the Village, me with his giant litter box in my arms, and Addie clutching this screeching black duffle bag to her chest! We got many a strange look from Korean passerby, let me tell you! "Crazy cat-stealing foreigners!" I'm sure is what they were thinking. LOL

But in the end we got to Addie's with Benny and let him out. He was PISSED at us but seemed to forgive us a little after we fed him. Oh Benny, don't you know this is all for your own good!