PHOTO PROMPT © Penny Gadd
To Headquarters:
We have infiltrated the subject’s room. Subject is a child of the dominant species. If we can get a spore into its ear, we should be able to enter the brain and take over the subject’s thoughts. We can then use the subject to destroy this invasive species.
The subject just entered room with a small mammal called a “cat”. We will wait until it sleeps.
The subject left but the small mammal remains.
The “cat” is approaching.
What is it doing?
Hey, get out of here! Scat!
Yuck, that is disgusting!
Headquarters, requesting reassignment to the Amazon.
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Word count = 100
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Ah, ha, ha. That’s really funny, Trent. I’d suggest covering over a child’s sandbox when they aren’t playing in it. A plant is on its own. I heard of a cat dumping a pot and playing in the dirt. That cat in your story saved the day. :D — Suzanne
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House plants and cats don’t always mix… Of course cats think they save the day every day, or at least mine do. Thanks.
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I had a cat that wanted to eat my plants. I will take that any day.
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Eating the plants is pretty bad, but other things cats do to plants, well, yeah, you were lucky ;)
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Dont mess with a cat, ever, you alien. You don’t know cat is poor man’s Bengal tiger.
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They may be small, but have that tiger’s instinct… My cats seem to think they’ve saved the world on numerous occasions ;)
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Go cats! Nice job.
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If you ask them, cats would say they save the world daily. Thanks.
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Now we understand why alien species have never dared to land on Earth.
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You ever wonder why cats sometimes seem so aloof? Perhaps they understand how they have saved humanity so many times over ;)
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Yeah, forget the military, send in the cats :-)
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Know the enemy. If you need a battalion, use it, but if all you need is a cat looking for a fresh pot to use….
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..that’s why my plants and I prefer goldfish! Nice one Trent.
My story – Billy and me!
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I’m sure your plants thank you for having goldfish instead of cats… Thanks.
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You had me there! Foiled by a pussy-cat is my kind of story.
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After writing this I realize that I’ve written at least a half a dozen stories about cats saving the world. There must be some truth behind it ;)
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Nothing like a cat using a plant as a litter box… ugh!
This garnered a chuckle!
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I’ve known some cats that think plants make great liter boxes, all natural and everything… Glad you got a chuckle :)
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I HAVE a cat that thought my planters were litter boxes…
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It can be pretty awful…
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Thankfully I no longer have cats that do such things… now if I could get the dog to stop eating the cat shit in the litter box…
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Thankfully my current dogs don’t do that, but we had one…yuck. Unfortunately, our three legged cat, Albert, sometimes shits outside of the box, right next to it, and it stinks the entire house. Drives me crazy.
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So gross. And he only just restarted doing this now. I’m thinking it is a mixture of him having a sore mouth (he’s getting de-tartared next Tuesday), old, lonely or traumatized by the move.)
Our old cat did that, too. He was very old and I had to have him put down before the move. I don’t think he could have handled it. Plus he was shitting all over the house.
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Now how did we get into this conversation? Oh well, I hope nobody reads the comments ;) (I’m not going to say what Albert did, though we figured it out and it is better now. I hope)
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Ha ha ha! Sometimes…
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Did the cat find a new litter box and thus save the planet? :D
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Yep, exactly ;)
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Not sure what the cat did, but the reaction is priceless! Great write!
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The cat found a small liter-box with an alien-plant in it… Thanks!
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heehe! Good one!
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Ew. Snarky cat :)
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Are there any other types of cats? ;)
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Nope :)
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Cats rule. On earth and out there in the blue yonder. Beam me up, kitty.
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The may seem to be ignoring everyone and everything around, but they know. That curiosity kills the mouse (or alien plant) much more often than the cat ;)
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Haha. Golden shower?
Humans will be pleased.
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Golden showers… or worse. The humans will throw that plant out to remove the cat smell, thus saving the species ;)
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I have neither houseplants nor a cat. Probably just as well.
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Luckily my cats leave my few houseplants alone, but when I was a kid, we had a cat that thought house plants were brought in as his private toilette…
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Lol that is so cat 💜💜💜
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Sometimes the wrong place to go is exactly the right place ;) Of course cats are here to keep pests out of the house, even hyper-intelligent plants.
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Yes indeed 💜💜💜
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Dear Trent,
I laughed out loud. Here Kitty Kitty. ;)
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Glad you got a chuckle. Sometimes going in the wrong place is exactly the right place to go ;) Of course, some cats don’t think there is a “wrong place”.
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Foiled by the cat – they’re not daft those cats!
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No, cats are much smarter than most people realize. The also are not domesticated, they have a symbiotic relationship with humans, getting food and petting in return for keeping pests out, including hyper-intelligent house plants ;)
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