Think Outside The Box

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This husband and I…

Often hear a thump coming from the porch…a loud thump…sometimes two thumps in a row…like something heavy jumping and landing hard…

Open the door and what to our wondering eyes do we see?…Top Dog…Top Dog sitting quietly directly in front of the door…

Always quite baffling…like where is he jumping from to make such loud thuds?…the railing?…not high enough…the roof?…nahhh, too far up…and why two thuds in a row at times?…is he jumping off and then on and then off again?…

Pondered the mystery for weeks…for what better thing for two old folks to ponder than why a small agile cat makes loud thuds upon leaping on a porch…

Because we now know…there is no leap…nary a leap…nary a landing…

Opened the door not realizing we had company…just when a loud thud resonated in the air…and made eye contact with none other than Top Dog…

Squatting…paws together…stretched out in front…whapping, smacking, bapping, you name it…the floor by the door…

And mystery solved…the thud not a thud at all but a knock…a cat knock…saying, “Hello! Anyone home? I’ve come to visit.”…or more like, “Hey, I’m hungry, get out here and feed me.”

And, of course, cat lovers us do…

And so it is…in life…sometimes you have to be creative…think outside the box…be more clever than a fox or in this case more clever than two old folks…to make **it happen…
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And Top Dog…who had a twinkle in his eye and a little smirk on his face when his secret was exposed…would agree…