Inverted Cat

I will probably not be able to do the event justice but I am compelled to try.

While our cats are tolerant of the dog Media Girl recently introduced to the family, they are frequently overwhelmed by the dog's exuberance. A seven pound cat doesn't fare well against a playfully prancing twenty-five pound canine.

So our cats have taken to slinking cautiously through the house like lions stalking prey. Only it's not prey they're looking for but a clear shot to the food bowl or pet door.

Cinnamon, one of our cats, was on just such a cautious approach to her food bowl when the dog rounded the corner at slightly less than eighty miles an hour.

Cinnamon instinctively leapt into the air, but with forward motion blocked by the bulldozing dog it was Cinnamon's back legs that left the ground first. Her front legs left the carpet a nano- second later and for an instant she appeared to be hanging by her tail, expanded to maximum fluff, from an invisible sky hook.

Never before can I remember having seen a cat leave the ground backward. I laughed until tears pooled in my eyes.