Pete's Expert Summary
Ah, yes, another human preoccupation in a box. My staff has presented me with what they call a "jigsaw puzzle," a flat picture of some mountains that they have apparently shattered into a thousand pieces and now intend to painstakingly reassemble. The brand, "Buffalo Games," suggests a ruggedness that is entirely at odds with the sedentary, mind-numbing activity it promotes. From my perspective, its primary value lies in its components rather than its intended purpose. The box itself shows promise as a new fortification, and the thousand tiny cardboard wafers are perfectly sized for being "lost" under the sofa. The finished product, a large, flat rectangle, will no doubt make a superior napping platform, but the hours of human attention it will steal from me to get there seems a steep and frankly unacceptable price.
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A Tale from Pete the Cat
The invasion began on a Tuesday. The Human, my primary caregiver and source of chin scratches, brought a large, flat box into my domain and placed it upon the dining table. "Alpine Serenity," the packaging proclaimed. A lie. There is no serenity in a thousand pieces of chaos. I watched from my perch on the armchair, tail twitching, as she spilled the contents—a veritable plague of colored cardboard—across the polished wood. This, she had decided, was more interesting than stroking my impossibly soft tuxedoed chest. It was a declaration of war. My campaign was not one of brute force. I am an artist of disruption, a connoisseur of psychological torment. For the first few days, I simply observed, learning their patterns. They would hunch over the table, their murmurings punctuated by the faint *snap* of a successful connection. They started with the edges, as primitives always do. On the third night, under the cloak of darkness, I made my first move. I leaped silently onto the table, my paws making no sound. I sniffed at the pieces, dismissing the garish colors of the lakeside cabin. My target was more subtle. I selected a piece of the water’s reflection, a unique swirl of teal and grey, and carried it delicately in my mouth to the darkest corner of the pantry, depositing it behind a forgotten bag of lentils. The next evening, a delightful tension filled the air. "I swear I saw that piece yesterday," the Human muttered, sifting through the remaining fragments with increasing agitation. Her frustration was a sweet symphony. I had stolen their serenity. Each night, I conducted another raid, claiming a new, vital piece. A sliver of a snow-capped peak. The antler of one of the "hidden" deer. The final, damning piece of the signature on the rowboat. I was not merely hiding pieces; I was curating a collection of their impending failure. Weeks later, the puzzle lay nearly finished, a landscape of glaring, unfillable holes. It was a monument to their defeat. The Human sighed, finally admitting she must have "lost" them, and slid the entire flawed masterpiece to the end of the table, abandoned. That was my signal. I hopped up, strode across the paper mountains like the giant I am, and curled into a perfect, triumphant circle right in the center of the lake. The view from my new plateau was excellent. The puzzle was a tedious human endeavor, but as an instrument for asserting my dominance, I must admit it is a product of the highest quality.
