I Tot I Taw a Puddy Tat

Generally, Tuesday is shopping day and also has become TTT Day: Tuesday Treat Time for the kids.

It is usually something that I do on my own while Sue does whatever at home. This time, after I brought the groceries home, we decided to pick up breakfast and drive to our usual spot. Naturally, we took another photo of the pair of us in the car. Sue should have told me that my hat was somewhat askew.

But then, I tot I saw a puddy tat.
I did see a puddy tat.

How curious! I had never seen a cat in the park before.

And then I saw another puddy tat.

They were with a man.
What?!
A man was walking with his two cats in the park. Unleashed!

The cats were still cat-like enough to wander hither and thither and not always come promptly when called, or rather whistled. But they didn't bound off either.

One particularly, got a bit lost beyond the bushes to the left, next to the water in the following photo.

At one point the man had to locate the cat and carry it out of the bushes. Eventually, they wandered off toward the rest of the park on the right of the above photo. They are actually in the above photo, right about smack dab in the middle, but these are all distant phone photos, so you may have to take my word for it. If you could see the photo larger . . . wait, I will try to crop it for you.

Can you see it? To the bottom left, he is carrying a cat. The other puss (off to the right) is about to investigate the ladies at the picnic table.

Sue and I were out of the car and walking in the same direction by this point. The trio was making pretty good progress now. They are in the centre of the photo.

This is hard work for cats. They had to stop and rest. We caught up to them.

We had to investigate and have a chat. They are beautiful Bengal cats who walk with their human regularly. 

I petted this one. It took it calmly and as a matter of course.

I was told that the other one was a bit skittier, so I just took a picture. What a beautiful creature! Look at those eyes and that glorious coat, which apparently, doesn't shed.

What delightful fun we had. It turned out to be Tuesday Treat Time, not just for the kids, but for us too.

I have only seen something similar once in my entire lifetime. It was one Halloween back in the 80s. A family was accompanied by their feline on their rounds. As far as I could see, the cat didn't go to the door, trick or treating with the kids, but when the family was ready to move on, they just told the cat to come along, and it did.

Go figure! It's not like any cat I have ever known.

And . . . as an afterthought, I put a few of the photos into a collage. Done now, for sure.