It was wonderous and spooky sight. It was indeed the biggest garden either of us had ever been in.
Our tails swished with excitement, and Pumpkin's little catty-nose wiggled as she sniffed the air.
The grass stretched out for catty-miles, and there were big dips and falls in it. There were trees in the middle of the grass too. In one corner was something really strange; an area with a wooden fence all around it, in a sort of square. It wasn't a completely solid fence, it had bars of wood going across, and you could see between them.
We still don't know what it was.
We slowly padded further into the field, sniffing the air carefully as we went.
All of a sudden we heard a noise, over to our left, from behind a tree. We crept towards it, again, low to the ground.
As we got there, two huge, strange animals came into view. These were some of the creatures that had been talked about. They were incredibly tall, with shiny coats, and four long legs, but they didn't have paws. Weirdly, their legs ended in these hard flat things.
Their heads were really long and they had big nose holes. At the bum they did have a tail, but it was nothing like a catty-tail; it was much bigger, and made up of catty-millions of individual hairs. It didn't look like it could go up, either, when they were in food-mode.
As we crept round them, they looked really nervous. We would have given them a catty leg-rub, but they looked like they might tread on us.
We tried to talk to them, but they only huffed, puffed, and snorted back, so we didn't really understand them.
Now that we'd seen one lot of strange creatures, we decided there might be more, so we wandered off.
We saw a huge wooden room, like the one my daddy has at the end of my garden but much bigger. We decided to head towards it.
We were nearly there when, out of the dark, a rabbit shot past us!
Pumpkin started saying something, but I was just thinking 'rabbit, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit'.
We chased it. I ran in from the right, Pumpkin ran in from the left, but it was really fast and changed direction suddenly. As it did this, Pumpkin ran into me, and the rabbit got away.
Oh well, it would have been a nice treat, but nevermind.
We kept going, towards the big wooden room, and finally reached it. When we got there, the doors where shut, but there was a gap underneath them that we managed to squeeze through.
When we got inside, it was really dark (and smelt funny), so our eyes had to adjust.
When they did, we saw a bizarre scene around us; catty-millions of white fluffy animals, behind wooden bars.
So, what we'd heard was true. These animals looked exactly like clouds, on legs. Maybe clouds do have legs, and fall to the ground?
They looked so warm, too, just like you could snuggle up next to them and fall asleep (much more fluffy than daddy).
We tried to sniff some of them, and touch noses, but they started moving backwards. They made a very strange noise 'baaa, baaaa'. We didn't understand their language either, just like the long-faced animals. We did try to talk back to them, but the more we did this, the more they kept saying 'baaa, baaaa'.
Suddenly, a light came on and we heard a human voice 'hello, who's there?'
This really scared us, so we ran for our lives. Behind us we heard 'bloody cats'.
We ran so fast that I don't even remember crawling back under the hedge, or any of the journey home.
I do remember giving Pumpkin a quick nose-rub goodbye, then jumping through the window and curling up next to daddy.
Then I slept for catty-hours...
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