Inside comfortably cocooned against the cold, the cats laze about in dazed contentment. Sprawling over furniture or curling upon much prized soft blankets left laying around just for their comfort by tolerant and benevolent humans. Whiskers twitching and soft mewling as they snooze away the winter these pampered pusses dream of days to come, of the summer days of warmth, suns rays upon their fur once more as they creep through the long green grass stalking their prey of field-mice and voles. Bellies rising slightly with deep slumbering sleep. Paws outstretched. They sleep away the months till they can once more be free to roam across open fields in the long days of a new Indian summer.
This semi-hibernation is broken only by the necessities such as a stroll to the newly replenished bowls of food ………”Ah well if they keep putting more food in them the least I can do is to eat it and make everyone happy” was the purr-murred reply from the Godfather of the group, Clyde. He is highly irate at the undignified way of performing his ablutions during this cold weather siege as he much preferred to spend his days under a favored lower branch of a nearby tree communion-ing with nature in her elements. His personal wingback chair would have to suffice in this time of tribulation, but only if it was draped with his personal favorite soft downy blanket for his ears were apt to turn to ice when he slept and he would have to be completely covered over till circulation was once more restored. Wintering away his days like this was always such a chore as he felt the cold bitterly not like the other 'thick' furred family member who chose spots further away from the outlet vents of the house furnace.
Clyde's personal secret of a completely bald belly was no laughing matter, regardless of what the unfeeling humans he condescended to share this house with were want to think? There were times, when he had been left alone in the house, that he had to take himself upstairs, into the bedroom and under the cover of the parental doona for he feared that his ears would develop Frostbite and fall off. He has no desire what-so-ever to look like one of his distant cousins of the Scottish Fold breeding as that would be highly undignified.
