You might think a cat’s purpose
Is to sit on your lap and purr.
Nope.
Not my purpose.
I only sit on Mom’s lap WHEN I WANT TOO
If she picks me up
I jump right back down.
Now if I JUMP up,
then YES,
I will sit there and let her pet me and I will purr.
For me
My Purpose
Is to protect the farm
And I take it very seriously
I travel here
And there
And all over.
After all—
The dog just stays in the house
Unless she is with Mom.
Just Say’n,
TLC Cai-Cai
Traalalalla—“Let’s go do the chickens with Mom, Boo Berry.”
“Okay, doaky.”
“Bye—I’ve got stuff to do.”
“Not me, I stick to Mom like glue.” Boo Berry Betty replied.
“Works for me.” TLC Cai-Cai hollered as he took off to do whatever it is he liked to do.
“Come on Boo Berry, we’ve got stuff to do. This is a big day.”
Mom scooped me up, put me in the pick-up with Dad and we headed down to —I don’t know where. I can’t see out, and I don’t like to look out.
Then we were there.
And so was a big truck and a HUGE truck Mom called a semi.
Oh!
My!
GOSH!
BIG ANIMALS!
Shudder and shake
“You stay in here, Girly Girl”, Mom said, as she gave me a kiss on the nose. “The cows have come!”
Wow! Those are HUGE ANIMALS!
HUGE!
It wasn’t long before we were heading back to the house.
There I met TLC — “HUGE ANIMALS HAVE ARRIVED ON THE FARM!” I barked at him.
“I know,” he replied. “Cows, they come this time every year. We have to be careful around them and not get kicked.”
“I don’t plan on ever being around them,” I expounded to TLC Cai-Cai. “Those feet are bigger than the both of us!”
“Yep, you are right. Hey, race ya to the house. Whoever gets there first gets to get in first!” TLC took off in a mad dash.
“You can’t beat me!” Boo Berry Betty ran equal to TLC Cai-Cai arriving at the back door at the same time.
“You silly little creatures,” Mom reached down and petted us. “You can’t go in until I open the door.”
As soon as the door was open, TLC ducked under and flew right into the kitchen—Boo Berry right behind him
“What would I do if I didn’t have you crazy cute animals to liven up the day?” Mom laughed as we all tumbled into the kitchen.
“Whew, Boo Berry…thankfully there are no cows in the house!”
“Yes! What a terrible thought that is. But we are safe in here.”
YAY! 
Boo Berry Betty
and TLC Cai-Cai
I know!
I know!
The dog is still learning
How to be a
DOG!
But—
As you well know
I am bigger
Taller
And I even weigh
More
Which means
I AM SMARTER!
So—
Just for fun…
I LOVE to tease the dog!
Like When on a walk
Show her something Unique
Like the water tube
I run to the tube
Look in the tube
Meow
The dog comes over
Looks into the tube
I encourage the dog
To go INTO the tube
She does!
Gullible, you know
Then she comes out
And asked me:
“What was so neat about that?”
“Nothing,” I reply. “Nothing.”
TEE HEE
TLC Cai-Cai
I GOT TO GO!!!
Mom and Dad and Shannon and
Black Beauty and
Kia and
ME!! ME! MYSELF! And I!!!
We all got to go check fences and build fences.
It was wonderful!
WONDERFUL!
Mom said she had to watch me carefully because I am so little.
I don’t get why; I just did what the big girls did!
There was so much stuff to learn about—Kia found something really exciting in the corn field—she barked and barked and barked at it.
I didn’t go with her, I stayed with Black Beauty.
Then Black Beauty found us something yummy to eat. HUMMMM
Shannon yelled at her and took it away. When she took the yummy from Black Beauty, she took my morsel away from me.
“We don’t need you throwing up later,” Shannon explained.
We moved through Rabbit Brush, Chico’s,
cattails, up rocky hills, across grasses pastures— it was wonderful.
JUST WONDERFUL!
TRA LA LA LA LA!!!
Boo Berry Betty
(P.S. Some photos are from the archives, I wasn’t very good at taking lots of photos when there was so much to do. Sorry! But it does give you an idea of everything we did. 🙂 )
“I want in—Don’t you TLC Cai-Cai?”
“Yeah.”
“I want in now!”
“Well, I think you are going to have to wait.” TLC Cai-Cai replied with all the wisdom of a cat.
“Why? Where is Mom? Where is Dad?”
“Let me look” TLC Cai-Cai responded. “Inside. Dad is inside.”
“I WANT IN NOW———HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
“Oh, hush! Mom is out here somewhere. Dad is inside. He doesn’t listen when you cry.”
BAM!
“WOW! What was THAT?!” Mom asked as she came around the corner with her wheelbarrow.
Suddenly Dad was at the back door.
“WHAT was THAT?” We all asked Dad.
“It sounded like a gun!” Mom exclaimed.
“It was—Dove season has begun. And our new neighbors are sighting in their guns.” Dad explained.
BAM!
“Oh, geez, Get in the house quick, Fur Kids…. guns and little animals don’t mix AT ALL!”
Mom opened the door.
You know the rest of the story—run inside and SCATTER to our favorite places to hide!
Boo Berry Betty and TLC Cai-Cai
P.S. This is the end of SCATTER. Story Over. TLC Cai-Cai 😊
Mom and I!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHH!
That’s how I like it.
Mom and I.
Although, I do like The cat!
And I do like being
WITH MOM WHEN I AM OUTSIDE!
I don’t like outside
If Mom is Inside and
I am outside.
If something HUGE
shows up
TLC Cai-Cai
And
I
SCATTER!
Boo Berry Betty
I was out and about just enjoying myself
Doing this and that
The dog, our dog—Boo Berry Betty—had come out
Then had gone back in.
I was getting a tad bored
So, I headed to the dirt pile
This is a big pile of dirt Dad keeps for
Repairing the roads, and ditch banks
And stuff like that
So anyway, Out I went
It was warm and sunny
I decided Mouse would taste good
Right about now.
When
SUDDENLY I SAW
DANGER
The only thing left for me to do
WAS
SCATTER!
TLC Cai-Cai
“COMPANY! I yelled, TLC COMPANY!”
“Who?” TLC Cai- Cai asked as he lazily walked toward me.
“Loki,
Black Beauty,
and Kia!”
“Oh, I like Black Beauty”
TLC Cai Cai exclaimed!
“I don’t think I like ANYONE!
If Mom stays,
I will be okay— I can handle the company.
OTHERWISE, I AM GOING TO
SCATTER!”
Boo Berry Betty
“Gosh, Boo Berry Betty. Mom and Dad have been B.U.S.Y!”
“I see that. They are going here and there and everywhere on the farm, in the yard, just everywhere.”
“Yes, and you have to FAST if you want to get inside and eat something.”
“Or just get inside, it’s HOT out here.”
“Aren’t you glad we are NOT people? Their work seems so HARD, Boo Berry Betty, we just get to do fun things all the time.”
“Yeh, but—we can’t go in when we want to.”
Why do you worry, you only come outside when you are with Mom?”
“Well, outside is so BIG! I just like inside better.” Boo Berry Betty replied.
“What are Mom and Dad doing now, TLC Cai-Cai?”
“Gosh, Boo Berry Betty, they SCATTERED!”
TLC Cai-Cai and Boo Berry Betty
There is something just marvelous
About
Birds!
Just so you know.
Although, Mom says I like them for the wrong reasons.
Not really, Mom.
I like them because they are….
DO NOT EVEN THINK OF IT!!! Mom yelled at me.
Shish!
Hummmm I like them because they have lift off
They can fly
AND THEY CAN
SCATTER!
They did, lift-off,
and they did
Scatter.
Sigh
TLC Cai-Cai
