With each step, the cat grew larger and larger (or not)

Our cats never go outside. Never. At least not unless they are in a cat carrier. However, we do have visitors. They come several time a night and seem to especially enjoy making the motion sensitive light come on right outside our bedroom window.

We've known there was something odd about those cats.

This morning, as I was trudging through the snow (assuming one can trudge through about 1 cm of the stuff), I looked down to see sure proof that the cat that haunts our yard at night must be very weird indeed. It is the stuff of nightmares--a cat that develops the necessary height for its trail to expand like this. More then that--it is a cat that can do it without any change at all in the size of its paws.

Or not.

Apparently when RW went out for his morning ciggie, there was only one line of paw prints. The second line appeared sometime before I came on the scene. I'm trying to be satisfied with the strangeness of two cats preferring to walk half on and half off of the sidewalk. That will have to do.