Meet Margie
Aka Menace
The last in a multi-part series that chronicles the lives of the Ott cats.
Kittyboo here one last time. I left off my last installment telling you that our home was about to have not four, but five cats living in it. Yeah, again you’d think that having three or even four cats was quite enough for one house, but you have to understand that our latest addition is mostly a weekend visitor.
Her name is Margie, after Marge Simpson, but Mom Ott thinks a better name for her is Menace. She’s what’s known as a Tuxedo cat, and Mom Ott says she’s got a Batman face.
You remember Tom? He was the Ott boy who brought me home before joining the Air Force. Well, when he came back from the Air Force and was now living closer to home, a co-worker asked him if he would be willing to take in a stray cat that she had found. If she couldn’t find an owner for the cat, the co-worker would be forced to take her to the local animal shelter. As Tom had recently purchased a home, he decided he could do that and took the cat home with him.
But you see, Tom likes to visit the Ott home on the weekends, so he always brings Margie with him when he visits. Now, Margie’s just a little bit bigger than Macy, but just a bit smaller than me, but frankly I’ve never seen anything like it when she first arrived! My goodness, she basically took over the entire house within the first five minutes! She was chasing the boy cats (you remember Daryl and Reggie) around like they were half her size—when in reality it’s the other way around!
I found that if I stood my ground and hissed, Margie would back off. Daryl finally learned that after a time, and so did Reggie, sort of, although it’s become quite an enjoyable game for Margie to chase Reggie around when he wants to play along. (It must remind him of “good ole days” back when the black cat chased him around in his first home!) And, as you might expect if you read my introduction to Macy, she and Margie do not get along at all. Separation seems to be the only solution for that situation.
So, that’s it. We are steady at four resident cats and one weekend visitor. But then again, there’s always the possibility of a visit from this cat. She belongs to the oldest Ott son, Dan. She’s mighty cute, I have to say. (Her name’s Sushi, BTW.)
