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A Tale from Pete the Cat

The event began not with a bang, but with a crinkle. My human was hunched over the coffee table, a place usually reserved for magazines I enjoy shoving to the floor. They were sorting through a pile of what looked like fallen leaves from a plastic tree, muttering about "team spirit." I observed from my perch on the armchair, feigning disinterest. They peeled one of the objects—a garish orange sphere with black lines—from its white paper backing. The sound was a crisp *zzzzip*, a minor chord in the symphony of household noises that usually piques my interest. They pressed it onto their silver thermos, smoothing it with a thumb. And then, a tactical error on their part: another sticker, this one a white orb with black patches, slipped from their grasp and fluttered to the floor. It landed shiny-side-up, a perfect circle on the dark wood. It didn't move. It didn't squeak. It simply lay there, an affront to the natural order of things. This was no bug, no dust bunny worthy of a pounce. It was an anomaly. I descended from the chair, my approach silent, my tuxedo markings lending me an air of formal authority. I extended a single, cautious paw to bat at it. I expected it to skitter away, to initiate the sacred dance of the chase. Instead, it did nothing. I batted it again, harder this time, and my claw snagged the edge, flipping it over. The underside was white, papery, and utterly boring. This was the moment of truth. My investigation had revealed a profound lack of playability. It was a sham. An inanimate disc of vinyl pretending to be an object of interest. I turned my back on it in disgust, preparing to stalk away with my dignity intact. But as I turned, my tail—my glorious, expressive, plume of soft gray fur—swept across the sticker. I felt a faint, almost imperceptible tug. I took another step. The tug remained. I glanced back. The sticker, the one depicting a "volleyball," was now attached to the tip of my tail like some kind of absurd, decorative parasite. A jolt of pure indignation shot through me. I was being followed. Mocked. I flicked my tail. The sticker flicked with it. I whipped it. The sticker held fast, a silent, waterproof barnacle on the hull of my pride. This was an outrage. I began to trot, which quickly escalated into a full-blown gallop around the living room, a frantic, circular chase with my own traitorous appendage. The human started laughing, a sound that only fueled my fury. Finally, after a humiliating eternity, I managed to scrape it off against the rough texture of the sisal scratching post. The sticker fell to the floor, now adorned with a fine collection of my own gray fur. My verdict is this: these are not toys. They are agents of chaos and humiliation. Their only value lies in their potential to be secretly affixed to the human's back before they leave for one of their important "meetings." A plan is forming.