Some Holiday HiJinks Caught in the Act
Just a little scenario put together
for those who occasionally ponder the question "do animals think?"
In the center of the photo sits Zeno the cat casing the joint, setting up his bold move—the theft of a holiday Santa hat!
There's a carved squirrel on the middle shelf sporting exactly what he's looking for—a burgundy velvet Santa Claus hat complete with woolly trim! The coast appears to be clear. He springs into action, quick as a wink and grabs the hat right off that bedecked squirrel's head!
Please know that the squirrel is clasping an
actual pecan
loosely in his extended arms. Zeno's move is so perfect, the nut does not even
bobble!
Got it! Now all he has to do
is leave the scene of the holiday crime and take his prize somewhere else
where he can admire it in private.
Mission accomplished! There he
goes. And all this in just a matter of seconds.
The cameraman, by the way, was across the room watching and waiting to see just who the thieving culprit is. The hat had been found on a daily basis in the strangest of places—very often in a bucket of Meow Mix and once after a winter storm out in the yard in the melting snow!