The Sea Girl and The Sandman: Now We Have Cats

Where We Are

This follows on from “The Sea Girl, The Sandman and The Christmas Kittens” and does sort of break up the sequence of the series but that is the nature of life, multiple things can follow on from single events, but these stories also stand alone. This is not so much a story as a situational description, essentially about the effect that cats can have on a household.

You can read where this came from below.

It was summer, the kittens had survived, thrived and were now independent cats. Sea Girl and her parents loved their new family member and Cat and Dog were inseparable too except when Cat decided to take off or be alone.

In Sea Girls House With A Cat And A Dog

Sea Girl gave Cat a name and Cat was called Fluff. There was only one Dog in the small extended family now but three cats and the cats needed names. Sandman decided on functional names for his two, Ratter and Mouser, so now there were Fluff, Ratter and Mouser.

Fluff loved being on Sea Girl’s lap and when she was out on her travels Fluff decided on the comfort of her mum when she was not doing housework or her dad when he was trying to read the paper. Reading the paper is difficult when you have an attention-seeking cat on your lap, but Fluff was growing into a caring soulmate for the whole family.

Fluff had a basket but as often as not slept with Dog when all the lights went out and everyone was in bed, Fluff actually seemed to be bringing the family closer together than it already was and that was a good thing, harmony reigned in Sea Girl’s family home like never before.

In The Sandman’s Hut With Ratter And Mouser

The Sandman loved his new housemates although still acted like a grumpy curmudgeon, but he gave them love and cuddles. Around his hut on the beach, there was vermin attracted by anything that could be gnawed through, be it flour, seeds or food in general.

Ratter and Mouser had taken to their life and often brought Sandman the results of their vermin enforcement, which the Sandman threw into the brazier outside. Ratter and Mouser killed vermin but never ate their kills which was a good thing because you never know what diseases the vermin carried.

These days there were no gnawed grain sacks or damaged fruit jars and the Sandman loved his new housemates.

When the sun went down he would light a pipe with his special tobacco and Ratter and Mouser came and sat on his lap, often pushing each other to make themselves as comfortable as possible.

Sandman meditated thinking of his Witch of the Woods who was a love of his life and who he would be visiting soon to replenish some of his stocks.

Ratter and Mouser would not come, they would be allowed the freedom to guard his hut and supplies and to wander around their own new little Catdom.

Eventually, the Sandman too to his bed and Ratter and Mouser joined him taking their respective places on top of the blankets.

Soul Mates For All

Fluff, Ratter and Mouser brought their harmony to both houses but Sea Girl and her family and the Sandman knew that cats were their own masters and on an equal footing with their human friends, They had all become soul mates.

Life would be wonderful and this is where the Sandman and Sea Girl went next but Fluff, Ratter and Mouser stayed at home.