So we have two cats. One of my housemates brought home the first one right after hurricane Gustav. It is a cute little thing and very friendly. Fast forward about two months and one day I come home to find another cat darting about the house. This time my other housemate had kindly agreed to take someone else’s cat for the (somewhat dubious) reason that a new roommate was allergic. This second cat is not so friendly. For the first few days, she’d make a terrible growling noise and bite at anyone who tried to touch her. It’s been over a week now and she has thankfully settled in. Although she is a bit unpredictable, she is obviously much more comfortable in her new surroundings.

However, just as things seemed to be settling down, cat #1 reached kitty puberty. So here’s the situation: two female cats, antagonistic relationship, one spayed, the other in constant heat. Cat #1 has been mewing like an alley cat on a picket fence, clawing around on the carpet in my room and waving her posterior around in the hope that some suitor will come satisfy her primal itch.

Sadly for her the only attention she gets is from cat #2, and it’s not the right kind of attention. So for the past two days, as I’ve been hard at work on a paper, every now and then I’m startled from my stupor efforts by the sound of screeching. It appears that when cat #1 is really extra blatantly asking for it, cat #2 comes over and tries to get on top of her, which inevitably leads to paws flying and a brief tangle.

Alas, it’s all kind of sad, but better the drama be between the felines than the law students.