Lalla Cous Cous CSI
I have been trying to stay out of the house. Jolie has taken in another orphan. I thought it was another guest. But then I heard her call it by a food name. Molé. I know what that means. I am not stupid. Jolie knows I am not stupid. I do not understand her. It hides. I hiss at it. I stay outside if I can. Outside today I found the body of a dead monkey. I looked at it for a long time. There were no flies on it. It was not bleeding. It had no visible trauma. It was just flat on the sidewalk. I had Jolie's cellular with me, so I took this foto.

I walked away. I wondered what had happened to the monkey. Do monkeys sometimes just die in trees and fall down? Do monkeys get clumsy and slip? It did not have any signs of having been in a monkey fight recently. Where are all the monkeys that die? I never see dead monkeys. This is my first. Do other monkeys bury them before the crows can eat them? I would not eat a dead monkey. A living monkey would have tasty insides. I like liver best. But dead monkeys, no. By this time I came back to where the dead monkey lay. It had moved! Had the monkey not been dead before? I did not check! Now there were flies buzzing around it. Yes. Flesh flies. But there is also a cigar next to the monkey. The monkey had been moved or moved itself. There was a cigar. The cigar was 1/3 smoked. I took another foto.

Maybe the human with a cigar moved the monkey. Maybe the human with the cigar was standing by the monkey when it moved. It was shocking to the human. The human dropped the cigar. I walked home. Jolie was on the porch. The orphan was inside, hiding. I settled down to take a nap. Later Mr. Pud's Jolie came by. She told Jolie about the dead monkey! She saw it too. I listened carefully, but she did not mention the cigar. I ran off the porch to see the monkey again. There was no cigar! Its eyes were sunk now and the flesh fly maggots were inside them. I forgot the cellular! I would have no evidence that the cigar was gone. No evidence of the larval development. I walked home. Jolie was talking about Molé. But I just pretended I did not hear her.

2 Comments:
Dude, I don't know what you mean about monkeys, but that squirrel in the picture is seriously dead looking. How often do these things just sit around when a cat is taking pictures of them, anyway. Cause of death is very mysterious. Do you suppose he had lung cancer from smoking cigars?
Miss Cous Cous and Mr. Pud, you are some fine cats. I laugh so hard my whiskers still hum. M P
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