Thundering Herds of Cats

That's exactly what we heard (herd?) yesterday morning at breakfast. It was so funny, we were just sitting there at the breakfast table minding our own business. The cats were first playing and frolicking, then thundering in herds (yes, plural, I'll explain in a moment) first one way past the table, then the other way, from one end of the house to the other.

You'd think it would take a large animal to make that much noise. Or several large animals. But just two little cats? Criminy. It reminds me of a story I read as a child, entitled "The Cat that Clumped." It was a story about a cat who longed to be a horse so it could make that clumping sounds horses make with their hooves. I forget how it ends. In any case, these two, Benjamin and Tiggy, don't require any special horseshoes to make that sound! They sound like horses on a racetrack or a herd of buffalo, with their only clumping tools being their little soft feet. Are the buffalo back?

I have to give David credit for this post. He coined "Thundering Herds of Cats" and asked "Are the buffalo coming back?" ;)