This is my war chant. I borrowed the booms and the ricka ticka from the rather similar Walthamstowe High School for Girls hockey chant used in the l930s. War chanting is the rhythmic expression of rising excitement. This is just the humanised version of my teeth chattering at the sight of prey. Got to explain it to humans, you see.
Boom, boom, boom chicka boom. Boom ricka ticka ticka boom.
Boom screw the cat trap, boom wow the rat trap,
Boom boom boom.
Ratticus Catticus sis boom bah. George is a rat killer. Ya ya ya.
PS. Still working on the rap version.
Dear George
ReplyDeleteLoved the photo of you in action.
I once caught a rat (in my younger days) and the man servant took it from me before I had killed it and it bit his hand. He had to go to the doctors and have a tetanus jab!
Served him right for interfering I was managing OK on my own.
Regards
Elegant Emma
Wow, really like your form, mate! Way to go. I do get those mice and rats, but I do have a larger supply of chipmunks. They live in my human's wood pile.
ReplyDeleteMy humans thought they saw a fox in my yard two nights ago. They were really fearful and ran to the internet. Found out cats and foxes seems to have a mutual respect for each other. Whee, thought I was locked in the house after dark, but they decided I would probably be okay. I tried to tell them the fox only wants chickens. Since I don't have feathers I think I'm safe.
Keep up the good work.
Yo Felix rex Respec'
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful photo you are so lucky to have a pet photographer around! Herself tried to photograph me the other day when I was sitting up and waving my paws in the air to remind her that I needed feeding - she was running around with her camera and making a lot of fuss and the photo looked like a black blob and she then forgot to feed me while having a photography discussion! I have to be so tolerant. keep up with the chanting it gives you rhythm and power. We have chanting in our house - quite a different sort overtone chanting - it sounds like the plumbing has an airlock (again) but it is powerful - keeps herself sitting down for a while and that's a first! and it is strangely soothing - I always go and sit with her and feel very content - good stuff. cheers George - awesome pic!
Yo felix Rex - respec' Batticus raticus!
ReplyDeleteWhat an awesome photo - I see poise, I see claws, I see dexterity, - I see how lucky you are to have such a clever pet photographer!
Herself tried to take a photo of me the other day when I was up on my hand legs pawing the air (desperate to get her attention and remind her I needed a small snack). The photo looked like a large piece of coal! I give up - I give her opportunities for action pics and what do we get? nothing.
However we have chanting here too - herself does overtone chanting - sounds like an air block in the boiler, again, but it is obviously powerful stuff because it keeps her sitting still for minutes at a time and I find it strangely soothing I often go and join her!
Meanwhile George, keep up the hunting chants.
Update on the fox. Poor chap, my humans came home, AFTER DARK last evening and found him dead out on the highway. It really gave them a heart stopping scare, because he had short ears and was gray--like me. The headlights on the car only gave them a brief view of something out on the road. They had to closely examine him to make sure it was the fox. It was. They were so happy to see me when I greeted them at the back door! I was fussing, because they had been gone well past my dinner time.
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