My Almost Favorite Time of the Year

    Thanksgiving my favorite time of the year, almost (My first is Christmas I'll get to that later) Thanksgiving for us cats is just an excuse to get food. At the clan our Thanksgiving is just food that we take from humans. I usually don't go to the clan for very long on Thanksgiving.

    Just so you guys know my name is still Bella, on my graduation they decided that.....actually let me state exact words from Fire Star our clan leader "Bellana we, the clan have all decided to let you keep your name because you live with the humans,"

A Long Couple of Weeks

   I'll start at the beginning of the first week. Remember a few posts ago when I fought that dog? Well I know the dog's name. I fought him last  week too. His name is Titan, and the other dog, her name is Tilly.

    I fought Titan that night because when Daddy let them out that night he was extra hyper. Nikki was going outside to give Tilly and Titan a piece of bread. Titan squeezed through Nikki's legs! He came at the cats so I protected Data and Itzel. 

    We got into another fight, and like the other time I won without a scratch. And he left with scratch marks and a bleeding nose. I had accidentally scratched Nikki's ankle, she was fine. But she felt bad for letting Titan in. She was shaking for hours.

After all those events

    And this week I got out two times this week. My humans were looking for me and Data for a while so we decided to go back inside. And after doing each of those things I always did this afterward.

What's So Special About July 4th?

    Apparently it's July 4th. What's so special about that. Everybody going around saying "Happy 4th of July!" Next week is everybody going to be saying happy 11th of July? And does this so called holiday have to do with all those loud "Fireworks"?

    Because I really don't like those things. I mean It's the middle of the night, loud noises and then lights blowing up in the sky. I was at the clan and I was out on hunting patrol and I saw humans going around their backyard with sticks lit on fire. That was yesterday I wonder how it's going to be today. Because yesterday wasn't even the fourth, it was the third.

    So if tonight is worse than last night, I am NOT going to the clan. And if I do HAVE to go I'm staying inside. After all, who would want to be around a human you don't even know with a stick on fire in his or her hand. I mean if you were a cat, would you want to be around one?

    

Charlie

    Hi it's Bella again. It was about a month ago when Charlie came. Charlie was one of Nikki's friend's cat. Well this girl had too many cats, and needed to get rid of some. Charlie was one.

    I know that she loved Charlie, but her Grandpa was allergic. I felt bad for Charlie because he loved her back. Nikki and Mommy were going to give him to somebody. He had to stay at our house for a while.

    And he was an outdoor cat, and was not house trained. He ended up using the restroom on the rug. And Nikki didn't know that he was using the restroom and picked him up. Then she put him on the couch so it got all over the couch.

    Then after that he had to stay outside. 

The House Is Mine

    I've got another adventure for you. I have been talking about school in my posts. Well, it reminds me of the time my humans went on a trip. It was just us cats, and a so called "House sitter" that only came by for like 5 minutes.
    My humans had gone on a trip, I don't know to where though. The house was mine, Itzel's, Data's.   We could do anything we wanted. So we went to the clan early to stay there until sundown. 
    We were so excited to see what the clan was like during the day. Not only did I get to practice fighting skills but also to go and see my friends. But there was 1 problem. All the people that weren't my friends called me kitty pet. Which means I was born in what they call two-legged territory.
    And when they called me a kitty pet I just told them that even though I'm a kitty pet, I was as loyal to the clan as they are. And the last time I just lost it and attacked him. But after a while somebody broke us up. But, he was already scratched up. We both had to go to the clan medicine cat to heal the wounds on our paws, back, shoulders, and face.
    After that we had to talk to the leader of the clan. We got a stern talking to and since he was the  one who called me a kitty pet, he had to hunt for the whole week. After he left, the leader of the clan, StormClaw, told me not  to listen to them. So I didn't.
    But when my humans came back I ran back to the house and ran to the door when they came in. Then everything was back to normal.

Apprentice Work

     Well, I told you about summer and about my school. And since it's summer I can work on my apprentice work. I want to be the best warrior I can be. Now that summer is here, I can practice fighting. But being a warrior is not just fighting.
    We have to honer the warrior code. When I was a kit, I thought being a warrior was all about fighting. Not any more. I realize that the warrior code is very important.
    Next year, I will not be an apprentice any more. I will graduate and have an apprentice of my own. I hope to have one of my favorite kits. RavenPaw or IcePaw. IcePaw is SnowPaw's sister. And once we graduate our names change. My name might be BellaStar, but there is no way to know for sure.
    But for now I have to worry about my fighting skills. We usually practice with other cats that are the same rank as us warriors, but today was different. We practiced with the best warriors in the clan. I knew they were not going to take it easy on me.
    And I beat one of the warriors! After we had practiced, we all had some fresh kill, and went to bed. It takes me 15 minutes to get home from the clan. And I was exhausted. I went right up to Nikki's room and fell asleep on her pillow.
    I was so happy to go to sleep.

SUMMER TIME

    Hi it's Bella again. You might think just because I'm a cat, I don't go to school. Well you are completely and totally wrong. It's not like human school of course. We go to school to learn about hunting and fighting.
    We start to go to school when we are just kits. Then when we get older we turn into apprentices. Once that's over we have our own apprentices. Once we get to an age it is time to become the elders of the clan.
    We learn to hunt so that when we get old enough for hunting patrol we will be experts. We learn to fight if just in case some other clan decides to invade our clan. We go to school at night when humans are sleeping. I have a bunch of secret ways to get in and out of the house.
   The humans don't know this but that is how ants get in and out. Most of the cats at school don't have humans, all I know is that Snowpaw and Berrynose live with humans. Itzel Bitzel started school about a year ago, and Data already has an apprentice, and I am an  apprentice. Everybody thinks my mom or Cat Seven died in battle with WindClan.
    Snowpaw has hunting patrol with me, and Berrynose has border patrol with me. Border patrol is where they have two to three cats at spaces of the border. That is so if other clan's cats try to invade our clan, we can warn the clan. Itzel Bitzel also has border patrol with me.
    I still go back to the clan at night, like if I was going to school. But cats go to the clan during summer because they live there or because somebody has to watch over our territory. I'm so glad it's summer!