MAYA

LET ME TELL YOU MY STORY...eeeeouw... I am Maya, mother, grandmother and great grandmother and more. Some five years or so ago she brought me home in her little car and I remember poohing on the floor of the back seat because I got nervous. It was a long ride, you know. It probably took a whole cat-day to get to the place in the boondocks...meouw...meouw...that's a big chunk out of my life.

She brought me home because she had 2 boys...eeeouw... Jebat and Ginger. I was supposed to be on loan...eouwrrrr...a long loan period obviously. Now you know why I am mother and all else. What we women have to put up with...eouwrrrrrr. I was about 6 months old then and I fell instantly in love with Jebat...oooooouw. Ginger was good looking, lovely coat and all but he was a bit of a pouf, actually. Jebat was this dashing young all man...ooooouw. My eyes are weepy thinking of him my darling Jebat. We had two litters and he done gone and got himself killed by a lorry speeding down the narrow road in front of the house. These humans. Us animals are not half as uncaring...eouwrrrrrr.

Now, those two brothers. When they fought -- of course, it would be Jebat who starts it -- I would have to break it up. Me, a woman, get in between them. I swear, men are so territorial... and then I would comfort Ginger whom the family loved to bits because he was so good looking and very affectionate with the humans. Not that my Jebat was any less loved cos they noticed when he was not at the dinner that fateful night.

Anyway, other than Jebat my greatest love is milk and butter...eouwwwwwww. My stomach don't take too kindly to milk but what can I say, when you love something you just love. I take being thrown out of the house after a bowl of milk in my stride cos what won't anyone do for love... meouw... meouw... meouw... here she comes. She's a sucker for my purrings... purrrs... purrrrrrrrs. A bit of rubbing her legs....

"Maya behave yourself. Don't get under my feet. Okay, okay, okay...come on, to the kitchen."

Yes! The fridge door...meeeeouwwww...yes, yes, the carton...aeouwww. Excuse me. Toodeloo...