Purrrrpetual Motion

Like perpetual motion, but for cats. And unlike it's more formidable scientific counterpart, purrrpetual motion has been solved. The paw of this way-too-happy cat waves up and down for about a million years (cat years) on a single AA battery, so that's close enough to perpertual motion to qualify in my book. In Asian cultures this hi-tech wonder it is considered good luck. My very creative and Asian-influenced son Alex got us this cat for Christmas, and it quickly found it's way to our fireplace in Wimberley. It seems happy there, far from the reach of any dog that might wander in, yet close enough to the firplace to use it as a litter box in an emergency.

Yet beneath that seemingly innocent smile, I feel, lurks... a potential man-eater. Shown in the second photo eyeing a couple of possible victims (Ann and Bro-in-law Ted), this cat may not be so lucky for anyone who it mistakes for lunch. Think I'm just being silly? Perhaps. But I'm thinking that Stephen King good get a good five or six hundered pages out of a plot like this. The possibilities seem endless: Kitty Cematery, Girl who loved Kitty, Hearts in Kittyland, The Dark Tower: Kitty's Revenge, Bag of Kitty Bones. All so purrrfect.