Cats in Hats

Meet Professor MacGonagall. No, I am not confusing J.K. Rowling's heroine with characters in Dr. Seuss's The Cat in the Hat; the Professor, MacGonagall, is my cat. She shines in her onyx coat, the feline princess who rules over the household. My pet name for MacGonagall is Thing 1. Of course, as noted in the video above, there cannot be a Thing 1 without a Thing 2. Matilda accepts that role without condition. The little white and black spotted baby spreads her spunky cheer to all living in her highnessses courts (otherwise known as my house, and her highness is not me, and she is certainly not my husband...have you figured it out yet?)


As I have granted myself the title "The Hat Lady," it must not be a surprise that I occassionally attempt to dress Thing 1 and Thing 2 in hats of their own, to no avail, typically, but try I must! I think they desist from complying only because they feel I might confuse either of them for the Cat in the Hat, which mustn't be done, for they are Thing 2 and Thing 1. Nevertheless, on occassion, I have managed to dress MacGonagall in my husband's beebop hat, and my husband managed to wrap her in a sock turban once before. Matilda received a special kitty chapeau in her stocking, specially delivered by the fat man in red, himself, but she greeted that surprise with disdain, and I am entirely incapable of persuading the dear petite chat that beauty must come at a price!