Intro

Ha!  So my mom agreed to set up a blog for me.  I don’t know why she called it ‘Out the Bag’, because I have never been in a bag – well, not since my kitten-days, at least.  I have been in baskets, but then those are horror stories which involve trips to the vet.  I am not having my first post about that dreadful place.

So, my name is Tiger.  It is an unimaginative name for a cat – or so my mom says (she didn’t name me, and no matter how hard she has tried to get anything else to stick, nothing has managed to take).  I like it though.  It sounds stealthy and dangerous, and when I am off on the prowl at night, I imagine all those birds quaking in their nests at the thought of my fatal approach.

I suppose I should introduce you to the people I live with because it can get a bit confusing.  There are three humans: my mom, my gran, and my great-grandmother.  There are the cats: my biological mother, Hobbes (my mom rescued her and named her after Calvin’s best mate.  Mom thought she was a boy.  Six kittens later, she was proved very wrong.), and my really stupid sister, Sweetie-Pie (my mother was not involved in naming her either).  And then there is the big, noisy oaf of a dog, Tortuga.  Clichéd, you are probably thinking.  All cat stories have dogs.  Well, I am not making him up.  I have pictures to prove he exists – although he is currently paying me not to put them on the internet.  You’ll get them the minute he slips up.

I decided to start this blog so that I could prove to my mom that I don’t just sleep all day and get up to mischief at night; and that when I am lying on the bed with my eyes closed, I am actually thinking deep philosophical thoughts. 

This is me.  Cute right!  

Mom drew this a few years ago.  She didn't finish it 'cause she is really busy teaching - whatever that is.  (I think it must have something to do with 'tea' which is probably why she only drinks coffee at home).

Oops!  I hear humans approaching!  I had better get off the computer now.  (I have been banned from going anywhere near it - but I will tell you that story another day too.)

Chat later!

Tiger