The kids put the tree up while I was in Las Vegas at the beginning of December. I asked them to take it down last week before they went back to school from Christmas break. Like most things they are asked to do, the request must be submitted in triplicate.

I knew it! I knew I had seen something! I grab the tree with one hand and the cat with the other. The dog is dancing around my feet the whole time, thinking the cat is playing some new game and wanting to take her turn to run up the tree. I set the cat down to see if she can flush out the bird and we all see it at the same time. The cat lunges, the dog barks and the bird flies across the room and lands on the file cabinet in the office.
The cat goes bounding toward the office, the dog is trying to keep up with a game to which she has no idea what the rules are and I’m trying to get to the French doors so that I can give the bird a means of escape. Cat reaches bird, bird totally ignores the open door and flies back across house to tree and lands in the top. Dog? She comes to a screeching halt at the food bowl making a pit stop.
I then begin a twisted game of keep away with the cat trying to shield the bird from its clutches. All the while the bird is jumping from tree to hutch to bookcase. The cat? She is biding her time waiting for the right moment to pounce. The dog tries to grab the cat’s tail in her mouth as it swishes back and forth like a dropped water hose turned on full force. Every once in awhile the dog grabs a mouth full of hair and the cat reaches back to slap at her while she keeps one eye on the bird.

How did it get in the house? Not too sure, maybe it was cold and wanted to get warm. It probably spotted that great indoor tree and had been plotting for hours to get inside.
The kids were given strict instructions today as I left for work to get the Christmas tree down and put it away before I got home. Did they do it? Yes, after another bird flew in the house and gave them a merry chase. Then and only then did they remember what they were supposed to be doing all along.
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