Joyride
I have a 13 year-old tortoiseshell cat named Sherry. She loves sleeping in or on the car, so we usually leave the windows rolled down for her. Early one Saturday morning, as I was leaving to go to gym, I heard a howling ‘meow’ coming from somewhere. Thinking she was locked in one of the cars (we have 3) I peered in, but no Sherry.
I heard it again, and was trying to work out where it was coming from when my Dad drove up from around the corner. He had taken one of our dogs, Apache, for a drive around the block. It took me 2 seconds to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing.
I waved at my Dad, to try make him stop the car, he just waved merrily at me, and the dog barked happily. But when he finally did stop, he burst out laughing to find that Sherry had been sleeping on top of the car and had just had the joyride of her life!
The claw marks on the roof indicated that she was not keen to take up ‘car-surfing’. I wonder what our neighbours must have thought upon seeing the car drive by, with one happy dog in the car, and one not so very happy cat on the roof!
Sherry still sleeps in and on the car by the way.
Sent in by Adrienne Charles, Cape Town, South Africa.