Cat Daddy and I have just spent a few days in East Sussex, visiting my sister and her family. If you ever thought your cat was an insufferable pest when it came to food, you really ought to meet South Coast seagulls, whose food-bullying is like nothing on earth.
These evil, feathered demons think nothing of causing you physical pain if there’s even the slightest chance that you might surrender your last chip, scratching any exposed flesh that they can reach. They’re even known to deliberately target children because they’re smaller and more vulnerable, and they know what time and where the snack-laden school pick-ups take place.
My younger niece, aged seven, made the fatal mistake of holding her doughnut just a little too high in the air, whilst in the playground during our visit. She won’t be doing that again.
Anyway, one rather unfortunate discovery during our time away was that my tabby cat allergy, which I thought had gone away, is back. Oui, Mesdames et Messieurs: freakish though it sounds, it is possible to be allergic to cats of some colours but not others, and tabbies are my kryptonite.
Naturellement, this meant that Otis and Roux did everything felinely possible to cover me and my belongings in their fur. Otis woke me at some excruciating hour with his peculiar meow, sounding just like an affronted seagull, then slept on my stomach. As for Roux (whose voice also sounds like that of an affronted seagull), this is how I found her on our second night there:
I have visited Otis and Roux in the past without triggering my allergic symptoms. Do allergies just disappear and reappear? Or could it be the fact that this visit took place during peak hay fever season, when my histamine hackles are already in a state of high alert, causing the problem to be so much worse?
As part of my quest to find out, I am planning a trip to Mothra in a couple of weeks’ time. It will be very interesting to note any responses, or lack thereof, as Mothra’s fur is very different from Otis and Roux, both in texture and in the type of tabbiness.
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