kitty thunder

early this morning, the man and i were suddenly awoken by the sound of thundering kitty paws, up the stairs and under our bed. i saw, out of the corner of my eye, a puffed-up tail, so i figured maybe they’d had a fight, but i hadn’t heard any yowling which is unusual. we went back to sleep. when i woke up, i got ready for my day and then came back to the bedroom to say goodbye to the man. i noticed that my pop-up windshield sunscreen was sticking out from under the bed. it had been by the door last night, waiting to be put back in my car. i said, “honey, did you put my sunshade under the bed?” (i guess i wasn’t quite awake yet, this was a strange question) and he said no and then it became clear to us why the cats had run under the bed and why it had been so much louder than normal. there is an elastic loop attached to the sunshade to hold it closed (supposing one could close it in the first place). our best guess is that some kitty got stuck in that loop and freaked out because this giant sail thing was attached to it and ran under the bed to hide/try to get rid of it. i surely do wish i’d had a video of that.