The hairless talls have been using particularly beseeching calls. They seem nervous. They act as if they are about to reach down and pick me up but withhold. Something in their body language makes me a little suspicious of cat treats just now. I’ll keep a careful eye on them. I give a lateral spine pull down the wall and see if I can dislodge the loose old claw sheathes while I put a whisker on what exactly has my senses tingling that something is up. There is no barred restraint box on set out. Must not be a vet visit. Something is definitely amiss.<\/p>\n
Hm, I recognize that footstep in the hall. And when the tap at the door was answered, I confirm it was not my imagination. I place her by smell and knew immediately what was coming next. My cue to leave. <\/p>\n
Angel, hellcat and rocket bound up in one solid blurred form, that’s me. Back inside the darkness of the closet behind the long dresses I lay with my stomach glued to the floor and hips and shoulders hunched, energies concentrating on increasing my own gravity to avoid the lifting. <\/p>\n
Knowing what seems to be scripted for the future, does not mean I will go down without a hide and go seek and a fight to escape. I know she carries a clipper and knows how to use it. I know she is kind and deft and just doing her job as any soldier is. Just the same I can’t help feeling a knot in my intestines over her appearance at our abode. Who exactly invited her I’ll never know but I sent no emails to that effect.<\/p>\n
My colleague headed for the automatic fur-licking machine the hairless talls have in the hall hutch. I know she will give them a run for their money too. As I lay moon eyed attending to the sounds of the search, I can’t say that she had a bad olifactory aura about her. Her paws were warm and firm last time. But you know, some of the quicks of my claws are long and I don’t enjoy being pinned. I’m just not a pin-up sort of girl. <\/p>\n
Yikes! On all fours they are coming from two sides. Jig’s just about up. The loose sheathes at the end of my toes itch. I could have got them off too, given enough quality time with the carpet but she has come to curtail any such self-sufficiency…<\/p>\n
Am I an American football pigskin? No but despite this I am finding myself tucked into an armpit against my will. I struggle but she has all the right technique to hold my loose skinned wriggle at a well-lit angle for a toenail trimming. She is quick, I’ll give her that. And a dotted bloodline across the arm if I can manage it. Bear it. Bear it. It’s all that there is to do now. She squeezes my foot and presses my claws out. Clip, Clip, Half way there now. I’ll be due a good nap after this. Judging from the array of white fur on the counter, it looks like I’m client number two. Ms. Zhou was particularly silent this time. Or was it I just lost in my thoughts so deeply that I couldn’t hear her?<\/p>\n
Paws for now.
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