Bald Spot

My tail has a bald spot.  There I was lying in the sun which filtered through the wobbly glass on our front door,  and then I was tearing up the stairs and a lump of my fur had been left behind.  It wasn’t my fault that the sun patch just happened to be behind F’s office chair.  She claims she didn’t know I was there until she skidded her chair backwards and I screeched and ran away leaving a lump of fur on the carpet.

Ouch!

She has learned her lesson – to look behind her before reversing.  Fortunately the chair only encroached on my fur. My tail structure is undamaged and the fur will probably grow back;  and it was on the underside of my tail so you can’t see it unless I get tipped upside down. 

Callously, F scooped up the lost fur and put it in a jar with all the fur brushings.  She is going to put them in a net off a bag of oranges and hang it in the seed feeder tree to see if birdies want cat fur to line their nests.  If it works, a generation of birdies will grow up comfortable with the smell of cat fur. 

That could have its benefits ….