Having given up all hope of recovering my beautiful four year old cat who made a dash for freedom a couple of weeks after her arrival this past summer, I have been entrusted with two wild young girls by the vice-president of the Tuscan animal protection organisation. I have kept all the doors and windows closed and yet after several hours of seeming to freak out about being here, they seemed to have disappeared. I was planning on telling everyone that they were upstairs asleep for the next fifteen years. My friend Gary was about to embark on a hunt through the pet stores of Siena province looking for their twins.

But about four hours later they resumed their howling, and though I never found out where in the house they'd been hiding, I was very glad to hear the dreadful noise. They finally deigned to eat something and to use the litter box, but they still act like they hate me and it will be awhile before they figure out that I'm their saviour. While I slept they had a proper romp, upsetting a plant and knocking down a picture, but no serious harm done yet.

So without further ado, and though they remain nameless until they tell me who they are, I give you the wild girls:

posted by Joanna @ 11/20/2006 12:35:00 PM