Silliness (again)

Last year when the smaller portion had just been released from hospital and was refusing to eat I resorted to silliness to encourage/bully him into it.  On that occasion I featured the blow-up penguin who lives in our en suite. 

However, the penguin is not the only blow-up beastie who shares our home.  Lurking on top of the book case just inside the front door lives a leopard.

I cannot help thinking that he is in a prime position to menace guests, or unwary inmates.  In support of my theory, some hours after I took his photo this morning he leapt from the book case and landed on the skinny one's sister.  She was neither hurt nor frightened.  Not a successful ambush at all. 

This made it very clear that when the smaller portion gets home from hospital if he behaves badly it will have to be the penguin again.  That leopard is simply too friendly. 

I am a little bit ashamed to say that while visiting him in hospital I have been indulging in a little theft.

Each visit (and I go in twice a day) I liberate a few clinical waste bags.

They are ideal for using while detruffelating the kitty litter trays.   In the home they are known as toxic waste bags, and they make an upleasant daily chore easier and more amusing.  Small things for small minds.