Her silence speaks volumes

The muffin's out of the bag! Unthinking, we'd left the festive gift bag of wax-paper-wrapped Corny Cornbread Minis on the kitchen counter overnight:

Tiny's not talking, but in light of the evidence (above), her silence speaks volumes. 'Wish we'd had a kitchen cam. The drama of the midnight cat burglar — "A burglar who is especially skilled at stealthy or undetected entry of a premises" — plucking the beggar's purse out of the bag, batting it about, unwrapping and then greedily devouring the mini-muffin would have made for a superb action thriller to add to our Chelsea Grays Film Collection.

Update: "Fortunately, she stopped at one, so the hostess gift is still presentable," we wrote our imail correspondent:

She: I, too, wish we had a video!

We: Yes. I can just see it in my mind's eye. The Frenzy.

She: I think it was more the thrill of the chase than the actual eating.

Sissy Willis: Yes re thrill of chase. She is a superb gameswoman. I'm imagining that at first it was just like plucking a ball out of the superball bowl … Something to play with … Then the little light bulb goes off as she realizes there's something to EAT in there!

Curiosity may kill kittens, but a tasty snack brings them back!

Update: Satisfy your curiosity about all things bright and beautiful at Modulator's Friday Ark #242.

Comments

[goomp]

Ah yes, "The Cat Burglar"

[Connecticut Yankee]

Tiny has obviously been studying the book of Proverbs:
"Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant." [Prov. 9:17, NRSV]

[Gayle Miller]

The Houdini paw strikes! Sam the Wonder Cat displays his stealth talents at finding ways off his screened in porch. Sis and I spend our mental energy finding ways to thwart him!

[Laura Lee Donoho]

I think if I were left up alone in the brilliant Willis abode, late at night, I would have behaved just like Tiny, and taken a morsel of the Corny Cornbread.

More power to ye Tiny!

[srp]

Here it is the cat teeth marks on all plastic shopping bags... holes in any dog food or cat food bag left sitting for more than an hour.... and the shredded paper towel bits all over the garage/ cat haven, when a human dares to leave it on the work bench. They get into more trouble than my daughter ever did when she was young.