Our cat, Mindy, has become quite the watchcat here in Mexico. She often sits on a plastic chair on our balcony patrolling the neighborhood. We leave the balcony door open when we’re home so that she can come and go as she pleases.
A couple of weeks ago, we heard a growl coming from our balcony area. Strange, Mindy doesn’t growl. We looked over to find that a small black cat had made its way into our apartment. Mindy started hissing and chased her off in a flash. To get to our apartment, the black cat had to squeeze through our building’s gate, walk up the stairs to the 2nd floor, jump over our balcony wall and then saunter in through our balcony door. We were pretty sure that the cat was an outdoor cat recently adopted by our friends, Steve & Sara, who live across the way. They confirmed that this cat does, in fact, like to growl.
A few days ago, Mindy started meowing and staring intently at the wall. She then started jumping at the wall desparately trying to get at something out of her reach. So, we went to take a look. A cockroach! Make that a flying cockroach! Although Libby is usually on bug duty, this was a little too much for her. Those long antennae are freaky! John machoed up and took care of the offending bug. Since we leave our balcony door open, we do occasionally get some big bugs like moths, but this was our first cockroach. Mindy is always helpful enough to point them out to us.
Good girl, Mindy!
Add that to the huge moth we saw on your balcony when we were there. These are part of the experience.
Have fun
Love the Bekas crew
OMG, your Mindy looks almost just like my Minz! He’s a boy cat but, wow, the resemblance is freaky. Same brown belly fur and everything. Does everyone here in Mexico say, “Oh, your cat is so BIG!”? Click here to see Minz. http://s28.photobucket.com/albums/c208/SusieQRoo/?action=view¤t=DSCF0073.jpg
(PS - thanks for the PB!!)
John - You are such a brave man tending to that nasty cochroach. It reminds me of when Dan Ackroyd helped arrest Eddie Murphy in Trading Places.