Fright in the night, again

Got a bit of a scare last night!

I was sitting in bed, reading. Mr. Samoa was out in the living room doing the same. Black Quix 1 was sitting on the windowsill, when all of a sudden she started growling and bristling. Both behaviors are extremely unusual for Black Quix. "This cannot be good," I thought. I called out to Mr. Samoa to turn on the porch light. He had heard the growling as well, and was also a bit unnerved. I looked out the window, couldn't see anything, but Black Quix was still growling and bristling. Then Mr. Samoa came in the bedroom and looked out the window. He chuckled and said, "Look out there, right at the stairs."

The dread beast that had caused all this trouble was the fat gray cat from the farm that's up on Felix' Road, about a quarter mile away. We have mice and baby rabbits running around, so it was almost certainly in pursuit of one or the other. It finally saw Mr. Samoa looking at it and sprinted off. Apparently Black Quix had seen it and was just being Territorial Kee. We praised her for her bravery in driving off the fiendish creature. :D