Eating flies. No, not me! My cat Khalil. Khalil, by the way is named after the character Khalil in Jonah a Veggietales movie.
So, yesterday afternoon I was listening to my Mom read "Me, Myself and Bob: A true Story About Dreams, God, and Talking Vegetables" checked out of the library by the way.
Yeah, so it is basically Phil Vischer's autobiography about how Veggietales was made when he didn't have any money and how God provided for him (and for everyone who has seen Veggietales).
So, she was reading. Then, I heard something on the windowsill behind me, (I was laying on the couch) I looked and it was a fly, then, it was Khalil's front paws, and then, his mouth, then, his tongue, and then... no more fly on the windowsill!
Khalil took his first hunt of the year a few feet away from the window, to the middle of the living room, chewed it, and then swallowed it.
All of that fly stuff reminded me of the following poem:
I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly
But I don't know why she swallowed the fly, Perhaps she'll die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed a spider to catch the Fly
But I don't know why she swallowed the fly, Perhaps she'll die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a Bird
How absurd, to swallow a bird
She swallowed a bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don't know why she swallowed the, fly Perhaps she'll die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a cat
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed a bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don't know why she swallowed the, fly Perhaps she'll die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a dog
What a hog, to swallow a dog
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed a bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don't know why she swallowed the, fly Perhaps she'll die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a goat
She opened her throat and swallowed the goat
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed a bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don't know why she swallowed the, fly Perhaps she'll die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a cow
I don't know how she swallowed the cow
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog,
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird
She swallowed a bird to catch the spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly
But I don't know why she swallowed the, fly Perhaps she'll die
I knew an old lady who swallowed a horse She dead of course!
With all that said, My cat ate a fly yesterday. I hope it was interesting to you. Oh, and Awana games is this weekend, expect pictures here from that.
Well, it's off to youth group for me.
P.S. By the way, the third to last word in the version of the fly poem is spelled wrong. Did you notice that?