Vile Humiliations!!

Commander Cheop made me change the subject heading.

Originally, I had called it "The Flower-Cat Tip-Toes At Eventide".

But Commander Cheop is feeling great shame at his vile treatment by the HUMANS who forced him to wear the garb of a mere canine and took him outside into the dangerous dangerous world and made him smell flowers and lie under a shady bush.

"I was going to make a break for it," Cheop said, "but I didn't want to leave you and Sri Lanka without a Commander."

When I asked him why he seemed so calm and contented after his mistreatment, he replied: "My nerves are shattered and I'm in a state of shock? Yes, I'm in a state of shock."

He slept soundly after the horrible incident and awoke with an unusually cheerful and robust air, capering about and meowing: "Who's for a game of tag?" And I saw him this afternoon look out the window at the flowery bush, then gaze up at the awful pink collar and leash hanging at the door. I can only imagine the terrible trauma he must be recalling. But he is strong and large and very large and this is why he is our commander.

And Sri Lanka has had personal experience with PTSD and perhaps she will be able to share some of her experience and recovery with the commander.

I had never thought the HUMANS would stoop to this level - to deliberate humiliations expressly forbidden by the Purina Convention. What atrocities will they not commit?

--Vladia Velocicat, The V3