I recently cat sat a very interesting character by the name of Max.  I once had a cat named Max whom I named after Max the 2000-Year-Old Mouse but this Max was nothing like that Max.  In fact this Max is not like any cat I have pet sat before.

First off I received the cat sitting from the man of the house who explained he was taking the lady of the house on a Magical Mystery Tour for a surprise birthday present.  They would be gone for four days total and he would leave me a note with the contact information of their destination in case of emergency.  I anticipated they would go somewhere like Montebello or Mount Tremblant.  When I arrived the first day and turned over the paper the destination was a hotel in Paris.  I am thinking this man is romantic and what a lucky lady.

So one activity that usually entertains indoor cats while pet sitting is knitting.  I sit and knit with the cat beside me and they are usually fascinated and watch the yarn, play with the yarn and some even try to eat the yarn.  That used to happen with my cat Freddie Rodriguez.  I would be knitting along and suddenly I would have a soaking wet cut piece of wool in my hand because she had chewed it apart.  Well this cat Max had zero interest in knitting.  Not his style.  He preferred to sit on the window ledge with his back to me looking at the outside world.  Max has just started to go outside for the first time in his life and this was my first time pet sitting so we had decided it was probably not a great idea to let him out but obviously that is where his interest lay.

The other very intersting thing about Max was his soccer ball toy.  He had a yellow sponge soccer ball toy that was in his food bowl with his kibble every day when I arrived.  It would be soaking wet so he had recenlty  submerged it in his water bowl and then moved it into his kibble bowl to store it.  Or maybe he thought his kibble needed company.  I am not sure but it was very amusing.  So every day I removed the ball, dried it out and left it on the floor.  The very next day there it would be soaking wet and in his kibble bowl.  I would love to know Max’s thought process on that one.

All in all I had a great time cat sitting Max.  He was a real cuddly and affectionate cat who was most definitely not a knitter.