Neighbor Doug broke off a large catnip plant and gave it to me for the cats. I tossed it on the living room floor to see what they would do w/ it. Blitz gave it a thorough sniff before walking away. Dunder shoved it tentatively w/ his paw a few times but when it didn't move he became uninterested also. When I walked out of my bedroom this morning I saw the sprig of catnip still on the floor. I picked it up w/ plans on dropping it in the tall grass while the dog and I were on our constitutional. What looked like a detached leaf though was a gray tree frog which the cats had dispatched. How had the little frog gotten in the house? My screens aren't the best but I thought they were at least amphibian-proof. Saw that one of the screens had been snapped and bowed out enough for a cat to get through. Maybe Dunder had excitedly hit the screen hard enough in an attempt to grab a little frog on the sill? Then I heard Blitz crying. It's a sound she makes when she accidently gets locked into a room. She was out on the deck and her whiskers were full of spiderwebs and other detritus. She'd been on my bed when I woke up so couldn't have been outside too long. I went out, scooped her up, and deposited her back inside. She sat for a long time just cleaning herself off. I caught a glimpse of Dunder as he slipped under the deck. Eventually he came to the back door but whenever I opened it, he trotted off. Finally I took a screen off a window. He considered it for a moment and then leaped up and into the house.
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