Bogey the Beloved Black Cat Boss

Until Cleo (2004-2014) all our cats were indoor-outdoor cats.  Bogey, a smart black beauty, was our son’s cat traveling with him and living wherever he went, then he moved to Queens where Bogey would not have been safe outside, and we all knew that keeping him inside would be impossible.  Bogey almost always got what he wanted.  So Bogey was re-adopted by us.  One winter we had a very heavy snow storm, and the snow was piled up over two feet high on our deck, which was in the back yard.  The sliding glass door, through which all the cats always went out and came back in, could not be opened without a huge amount of snow cascading into the house.  Regardless Bogey insisted on going out.  He drove us crazy!  Finally, I took him to the front door and opened it for him.  He went out onto the covered front stoop.  Unaware of the depth of the snow, he jumped off the stoop into the snow.  Imagine his shock as he sank up to his ears.  He immediately began “swimming” around the house to the back yard. It looked like he was doing the Australian crawl.  I grabbed my camera and arrived at the kitchen window at the same time Bogey made it to the deck.  He jumped up on the deck railing, then stretched his three-foot length to reach the kitchen window.  This picture is what he thought of his predicament!  Of course we opened the window and let him in.