Vivian stared at her Human as she danced around the room looking for her purse. She wasn’t sure it was dancing as much as tired stumbling. As far as her Human was involved,they both looked the same. There was a triumphant noise.

“Ha!”

The Human must have found the bottomless abyss.

Why she needed to carry so many things other than catnip,

the grey Persian wondered lazily,

I’ll never know.

“Keys!”

The Human said.

The dangly things? Hurts when you bite them? They’re where you always put them,in the hot liquid bowl,under the white stick in the wall on the high place.

After a moment longer Vivian noticed she wasn’t going to find them without help so she jumped up and sat beside the bowl,meowing loudly and continually.

The Human looked over at her distressed feline and spotted the coffee mug,under the light switch,on the kitchen counter. She gave the cat a quick pet,reasoning that her furry baby was more important than getting to work on time. And where were her shoes?!

Vivian stretched as her Human rubbed her but it was cut short as she began moving again. She perked up and narrowed her amber eyes as she realized what was coming next. The snake! The Human was putting on her paw protectors but that snake was back,stinking through holes in the protectors. She leapt,determined to claim the prize of the hunt as her own this time.

The woman was about to start tying her sneakers up when Vivian came skidding on the floor and was on the shoe laces in a flash!

“No!”

She told the cat.

“Not now! Good sneakers are expensive!”

She struggled her way to the door dragging the cat from one tied foot.

The Human fought for her right to the snake with a ferocity that bordered on desperation. Finally she was shaken off at the door and Vivian conceded the hunt to her human again. But as the door closed after a quick

“I love you”

that made her purr happily,she remembered that glorious day she won the snake. Her Human had to bring a new one home the next day. It really was a good thing she had adopted the Human. She would have died without me here to help her.