Mable's Animal Kingdom

Mable's Animal Kingdom

It was so sweet. This Father's Day morning my husband was on our deck enjoying the beautiful sunshiny day when he saw a big, yellow butterfly. He called to those of us who were out-of-bed to come and see this wonder of nature. I scooted my two littlest kids outside in time to see the butterfly circling my husband and then land on the step in the sun. We were just exclaiming at the site when our big orange cat, Tiggger (3 g's, T-I-triple guh-er) lunged out from under the deck, pounced on the butterfly and disappeared back under to torture the poor thing for an hour. We crawled around trying to coax them both out, but Tiggger wouldn't be persuaded. He did the whole cat-and-butterfly routine: swat it down, let it up, swat it down and there was nothing anybody could do about it since I have enclosed my deck with lattice so my vines can grow. I worried for about a second if my kids would be traumatized, until my son yelled, "That was awesome!". Now I'm worried about my son...........