I don’t know quite what’s caused it, but at the moment Psycho Cat and Hound seem to be at war. It kicked off over the weekend, while we were out. I think that Hound had been trying to sleep on the same bed as Psycho Cat, or had been annoying him in some way, but I don’t honestly know.

Anyway, Sunday evening Psycho Cat stalked into the room where Hound was wandering out about, walked up to her and slashed across the back of Hound’s legs. Vicious little git. Hound was obviously unimpressed by this, and barked at Psycho Cat. And that was the end of it.

Until 3am. Again, neither of us knows what happened exactly, as we were both asleep, but all we heard was Psycho Cat hissing, then a yelp and a bark from Hound, who then jumped on the bed. And by the time we’d got her off the bed and downstairs, Cat was fast asleep on the bed, looking smug. I suspect that Hound had been sleeping in the doorway, and the Cat wanted IN to sleep on the bed. And of course rather than stepping round Hound, or anything simple, the psychotic little twat belted Hound.

Monday night was quiet – a state of truce existed…

This morning (we’re talking 5.30am) that truce apparently died. I’m not sure what got into Psycho Cat, but he was bouncing off the walls, scratching carpets, jumping around, the lot. Normally this means his food’s not down (or not in the right place – I kid ye not) so I got up, sorted that out, and went back to bed. That didn’t stop Psycho Cat though, who kept on bouncing round the place. All went quiet, and then Hound started barking.

I suspect that Cat got bored, went downstairs to where Hound was sleeping at the bottom of the stairs, whacked her again, then stalked out the back door. Probably stopping just outside the cat-flap so that Hound could see him. That’s about the norm.

Hopefully at some point peace will again reign. In the meantime, I suspect at least a couple more disturbed nights will be heading our way…