Nicest of the Damned: Cadfael - Fighting and Pulling Sleds

I realize that this blog is supposed to be about me not my dog or even a cat I don't even own, but I haven't been up to anything. Just trying to write - which when faced with the idea of writing in my then free time from writing means slack on the ol' blog.

After four months of going AWOL who decides to rear his flea bitten head? That’s right normal readers it’s everybody’s butter loving, claw digging, widow scratching friend…Graham the Cat! Just out of no where he strolls into our yard yesterday like he hasn’t totally abandoned us for four months. Luckily Cadfael was upstairs as I was using his nemesis the vacuum. Graham came in had some butter, milk, and stale Go Cat, a little cat nip, the old one-two on the string, and off he went like he always did. I do hope to see you again soon ol’ Graham the not our Cat.

So Cadfael, he's a cogri, short, no longer fat, but not what I would call lean, he's got big ears, stumpy legs, and rather smiley generally. Most people openly laugh at him or at least smile that such a naturally humorous animal even exists. Then there are the few that are scared of him - okay the blind: he has a deep bark, he sounds like he could eat their helper dog, I feel like an idiot yelling "Oh don't worry it’s only a corgi" because yes all blind people know what a corgi looks like. All they know is that the Queens has them, she feeds them scones, and they bite her guests.

Small children: Okay he's about their size, he does have teeth, and they might have had bad experiences with their Gran's Scottie that tries to eat their face each Christmas. Fair enough.

Teenage Boy Chavs: WHAT?!? At first I was thinking they would kick him just because he is kicking height and that is what roving gangs of disinterested youth might do. (Thank God they didn't try to spit on him - as anyone who knows Cadfael and how weird he is and what he might do.) No on two separate occasions they were AFRAID and well very misinformed. One whispered to his friend "Oh hey did you see that husky?" Husky?!? You mean the black and white powerfully muscular dog that can pull sleds or did you mean corgi the only dog that could be mistaken for a banana slug?

The best however was the vacant looking baseball (not-playing-yet-cap-wearing-youth) that backed away from an ambling Cadfael and said to his friends in all seriousness "Look out its one of those Chinese fighting dogs." CHINESE FIGHTING DOG!?! You're illustrious leader is seen every Christmas of your life with these playful scamps lopping about not in dens of Shanghai scurrying about lusting for blood. Yes they use those foolishly big ears as weapons. You can tell by the scars and frothing at the mouth how rabid he is.