It’s time for Caturday Confessions!

Kittens Trickle and Matilda, one of our columnist pairs, will now share a wonderful confession!

Today, we, Matilda and Trickle, are proud to announce we’ve ruined our reputation as model kittens! At 6 months old, we thought we should do some grown-up cat stuff.

M: So I, Matilda, caught a mouse! Such fun after I’d been trying for ages. While She and He were out, I brought it into the house!

T: I helped!

M: You did not. I let you play with it, but what I wanted you to do was take it into Her bedroom and leave a mess of fur everywhere. I had to do that myself. Honestly!

T: Well, there was a huge, glorious mess, anyway. And it isn’t my fault that She came and found us when YOU had the mouse in your mouth and ran under the bed, is it?

M: sniggers She didn’t like that at all, heehee! That’s why I gave you the mouse, so she’d see you with it and think…

T: What, think I’d caught it? Is that why She chased me down the hall? But I hid in our tunnel and growled at Her when She tried to take it off me!

M: Um…well…yes, I thought of letting you take the blame. I never thought you would allow Her to take the mouse off you that easily!

T: She shouted at me!

M: You’re a wimp. A big wuss!

T: Am not. Anyway, it was all a lot of fun, wasn’t it?!

M: It was! My first mouse and the first real telling off we received. I think we can say we’ve grown up today.

T: I think so too. High paw! Hey, you don’t think we annoyed her so much that she won’t give us any supper?