Innocent

It is truely amazing. Amazing how cute cat most often can look so incredibly innocent, playing nicely with his plastic mice. And then the next second, attack me while I am sleeping calmly on the couch, biting my knee and toes. This is how he woke me up an hour ago. And then, he moved on to the bathroom. He loves toilet rolls, he takes them off the holder, bites and kicks them until there is nothing but a pile of something you might suspect once could have had the possibility to wipe someone's arse. So I have started hiding the toilet rolls from him. It is now in the cupboard over the zink. You, a normal-sized human, can just reach it from the toilet seat, if you reach out properly. And the toilet roll killing has seized, apart from the infrequent mishaps when I (or a visitor) forget to put the roll back in the cupboard.

But now, this precautionary measure seems outdated. I heard weird noices from the bathroom when returning to snooze mode after having been knee-bittenly woken up. But I could not be bothered getting up from the couch, I was just too tired. I chose to naïvely assume it was one of his toys getting a round of beating. After about 5 minutes he came strutting across the room, with a toilet roll in his mouth. He looked so proud. I shouted NO! Without showing the least reaction to my exhortation, he walked over to his paper bag, and brought the toilet roll with him inside the bag. Annoyed with myself now for having forgotten to put the roll back into the cupboard, I got off my lazy ass, went over to him and collected the toilet roll. Upon putting the toilet roll into the cupboard, I noticed that other items that normally stay in that very same cupboard were now laying scattered over the floor/bathtub/toilet. So it seems I did not forget to put the roll back, but instead, he has learnt how to get on top of the zink, reach up towards the cupboard, open it, and throw the things out of the cupboard. At the moment the toilet roll is now instead situated on top of that cupboard, out of reach for my water closet visitors.