This column is about Ted. He was a one-eyed gray cat that used to live with us. He ran away, and it broke the boss' two-timing heart.
Ted was born in a turkey box, because his mother was a homeless, free-loading tramp that the boss said could eat, sleep and play at our house. She played, all right. Three kittens later ...
Ted's brother was Seamus. We called him that because he could not help himself from snooping into everything including the upright freezer which he got shut in. Good thing Miss Manager decided to add more blueberries to the cake she was baking, or Seamus would have been a catsicle. Total dope.
Ted caught a cold when he was a kitten. His mother moved him around, because she did not trust yours truly, and so she took him outside, only it was cold. So Ted got an eye problem from the cold, and he had to have surgery. The doctor operated on him, and Ted came back with only one eye.
Everybody at the doctor's office wanted to adopt him. He had "personality." Well, we spent a lot of money on this Ted, so, naturally, we wanted to get our money's worth. He learned how to catch mice and play with a spool of thread from the sewing machine. When the boss was sewing.
He never got in trouble or got yelled at. "Teddy Bear, my Sweetie Pie. " "Come here, Ted. I have a filet mignon for you." "Ted, would you like to sleep on the pillow? Is it soft enough for you, Ted?"
This went on for quite some time. We named him Teddy Bear because management said that there were a lot of real good teddy bears with only one eye. This is the type of discussion the people around here have. And I have a business to run.
He was homely, just plain gray, not one stripe or spot anywhere except a splotch of white on his stomach which you could not see unless he was sprawled out somewhere snoring, and his tail curled up like a question mark - as if he would know. He would not get even one point in a cat show, yet to hear some people, you would think he was Leo the Lion himself.
Ted ran away and did not come back. Maybe he joined the navy or something.





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