You may wonder how I became a world-famous CSI cat. Years ago, I was a small kitten, lost and huddled beside the highway. It was dark out, I was very small, cold, wet and hungry. Traffic was zooming past me, I was frightened. Then a car stopped next to me and a big man got out, scooped me up with one hand and slipped me in his coat pocket. This was the best day of my life. It was Dad, George Chambers, a tall man with salt and pepper hair, a tanned face and big smile. He dried me off in the car and took me home to his wife, Mom, Nancy, a petite woman with dark hair and beautiful face who spent the next several hours bathing me and picking off all my fleas. After being washed twice and blown dry, they fed me hard and soft food [wow]. I fell asleep warm and full under a pillow in the den. Life was the best.
Then one day Mom came home with my new human sister, Molly. I loved her and help Mom take care of her all the time. When Molly was three, Mom began to teach her how to read, I always sat on Molly’s lap during these lessons and began to learn a lot of new words. I had always understood the basic lifesaving words, dinner, snack, pet, lap, come and bed time, but I never needed or cared about all the other words; Mom and Dad talked so much I saw no reason to learn any more. Now that my best friend was learning all those words so would I. It was hard for me, but Mom would go over and over each word and show us pictures. As the days, weeks and months passed, I began to understand more and more words. No one knew until one day Mom asked Molly if she saw a banana in the kitchen. Molly was fussy that day and did not respond so I jumped up on the counter and stood by the bananas, Mom was astonished. She got up and petted me. Mom called upstairs for Dad to come down to see this. When he came down Mom asked me where the apples were and I jumped over to apples on the table. They were both amazed. They asked me to show then all sort of things in the room and I understood most of them.