Grandpa Tom So far this has been my best summer ever But there’s a problem The problem is a girl my age named Alfreeda Wolfe She lives on the farm next door to my grandparents place Her family runs a dog hotel I’d like to be better friends with her but she always brags about dogs and puts down cats It makes me so mad She even said mean things about a famous cat named Lizzie while Lizzie was a guest at Tabby Towers last month Do you think I started to hiss at Alfreeda Well here’s what happened
It was an early afternoon at the beginning of July Grandma Kit and I were busy working in the cat hotel Tabby Towers is on the main floor of my grandparents farmhouse It used to be their family room Grandpa Tom built everything for the hotel the cat trees scratching posts and seven kitty condos where the guests sleep at night Grandma Kit was cleaning dishes at the washtub I was playing a string game with a guest named Puppycat He was a large Maine coon Maine coons need a lot of exercise every day and I made sure Puppycat got his Two cute kittens Fifi and her brother
Furbaby chased each other around the indoor kitty playground They zoomed around and around like two furry race cars Then Furbaby shot up a tall ladder and Fifi followed They ran along a narrow catwalk near the ceiling Grandpa Tom built that too I call it the kitty highway Another guest Child sat on a shelf high in a cat tree Child was a Persian with long fluffy hair He licked his legs and paws Like most cats Child spent a lot of time cleaning himself each day
I saw Grandpa Tom out the big window that overlooked the farmyard He was fixing a fence between our land and the Wolfes place He’d likely be out there until dinnertime Anyway the doorbell rang and Puppycat and I jumped
