Walkies buddy

Whilst mummy and I were out on walkies the other day we both heard something rustling around in the bushes. I stopped to listen but decided that whatever it was wasn’t worth bothering about and listened as it rustled it’s way off somewhere else. Mummy heard it too and thought it sounded too big to be a bird or squirrel so maybe a dog from the park was hiding from its owners and playing in the bushes. So we carried on with our walkies, then again a rustling from the bushes, this time going back the other way. “I wonder what it is Jen, its definitely not a dog” as I wasn’t worried about the noises we carried on playing. As mummy says if it was something scary I would have run and climbed the nearest tree. I might be blind but I’m not stupid, I just know when to be careful, even if I’m not sure what exactly might be close by.

Then, there he was, I turned round and heard him, I could smell him too, Mr. Fox was there sitting at the corner of the building. We sat there looking at each other for a while, he was probably trying to figure out why a cat was taking a human for a walk but he sat and watched us. I kept a careful ear on him but I really just wanted to have a good roll in the mud, so with mummy keeping an eye on him, I had a good roll. Then as we moved further away Mr. Fox followed us, mummy said he looked hungry and maybe that was why he was out during the day. As you may have seen from my previous posts foxes really don’t bother me that much, last time we played hide and seek in the bushes which was fun so this time maybe he just wanted some company.

As mummy and I were playing I think I was right, Mr.Fox wanted to join in, he came closer and closer until he was making mummy a bit nervous. She was worried that I might want to play a bit too close to him and so before I knew it I was being shoved up a tree, the indignity! Really, how is that going to look to our new furriend, how embarrassing! “Sorry Jen” mummy said “better safe than sorry and you can watch him from up there, where you’re safe. We don’t want to scare him away as this is his home too and we can share our gardens with him.” So there I was up the tree with mummy down on the ground keeping watch whilst Mr. Fox nervously tucked into some food my little hooman girl friend had left out for him. I could hear him crunching and munching away.

Then when he’d finished his snack off he went again and mummy finally let me out of the tree. I could smell where he had been and had a good sniff of him but come on mummy let’s carry on with our walkies. Off we went, all the way down to the other end of the gardens. Playing and exploring along the way, chasing insects and hunting the birds. I just love being outdoors. Then when we got down to the far end, mummy was talking to some of her friends, that’s so boring coz while she’s talking she mostly stays in one place, only following me a little bit whilst I’m off trying to explore, there I am tugging at the lead to get her moving again but she just keeps chatting to them. Then rustling again, that got mummy’s attention, and up went my ears and I was on full alert. There he was again, Mr. Fox had followed us, well this time I wasn’t having any of this being shoved in a tree so I went to say hello to him, I slunk down into my hunting mode so as not to scare him too much, he obviously wants to be furriends so it’s only polite if we’re going to share our gardens. So there I was tugging and tugging at the lead to go closer to him then, she must have moved or said something the fox didn’t like as he ran off back into the bushes in the park, I ran after him to ask him to stay and join us but he had gone. Then I heard mummy laughing and saying to her friends “Fancy that, a blind cat hunting and scaring a fox away, who would have thought it?”

Well, annoyed at mummy making my furriend run away I decided it was time to go home, so off we went. Then just as we got closer to home mummy turned round and said I must have made a good impression with Mr. Fox as there he was in the distance following us again.

It was quite fun having another furriend on walkies with us and I hope he enjoyed his time out with us as much as I did. I enjoyed having something different to listen to and smell. Someone to challenge my senses a little bit and give me something to do that’s just a bit different. I’m not sure about sharing mummy though but I suppose that it’s ok as long as it’s only every so often and not every day.