Kitty Collision
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scott_sanfordHappy Valentine’s Day
I don’t know what you were expecting for Valentine’s Day, but I bet it wasn’t this.
Nobody Who Expected This is in
Kitty Collision
by Scott Sanford; 14 Feb 2026
One spring morning, Kim Daugherty opened her front door and found an angry cat.
It was at the top of the stairway that she had meant to use, right in front of her feet, and it was staring intently downwards and growling.
The cat did not move when the door opened, but only stared down the flight of stairs. It gave a low slow growl.
Picking up on the obvious clue, Kim peered around the door frame and down. Unsurprisingly there was another cat at the foot of the stairs, staring back up just as intently. This one was named Thoth; he lived in the building and Kim knew him well.
Thoth had his fur fluffed out in all directions, and was staring wide-eyed up the stairs. He flicked his tail back and forth nervously. He opened his mouth and hissed.
The other cat hissed back.
“Hello. I see we have company today,” she said.
Thoth ignored her, staring unblinkingly at the other cat.
The new cat hissed at him.
“I see you two are in the middle of something,” Kim observed.
Both cats ignored her.
The one near her feet gave an uncertain moan and adjusted its footing.
“Is this going to take a while?”, Kim asked.
The upper cat hissed at Thoth again.
Thoth hissed at the upper cat.
Kim was unimpressed.
But she noticed something she hadn’t been expecting about their visitor. Wrapped around the new and unfamiliar cat’s neck was not a broad pet collar but a small colorful scarf. That told her all she needed; now that she thought to look, she could see tiny goggles dangling below its chin. So in a way she did know this cat after all.
“I should have seen this coming,” she told the visiting cat, who ignored her.
She sighed.
“Look, I know who you are, I live with the human you, and you’re not even the weirdest guest we’ve had this month. Do you have to do this on the stairs?”
“MRRrrrr!”, the visitor said.
“Neither of you is just an ordinary cat… Can’t you just talk to each other?”
Thoth gave a very ordinary cat hiss.
At Kim’s feet, the other cat hissed back.
Kim sighed.
Thoth reared up and yowled, and the other cat backed away from the stairs, her hind legs pulling the rest of her body along comedically.
Then he put a single paw onto the stairs and the visitor turned and ran away from the stairs. Kim turned her head to look and found that in a closed hallway at the top of the stairs the cat was nowhere to be seen. She rolled her eyes; she’d seen that before too.
“You scared her off,” she said. “Are you happy now?”
Thoth ran up the stairs and sniffed eagerly at the floor where the other cat had been crouching.
“What? Was this a surprise?”, Kim asked. “You weren’t expecting another cat?”
“You saw her! She was another cat, in my building!,” he said. “There was another cat!”
“Yes, another cat. That makes two cats.”
“She was in my building! And she wasn’t just any cat!”, Thoth said.
“I saw that too, yes. The scarf and goggles were a dead giveaway, even before she shifted out. That was obviously a Jenny Everywhere.”
“And what a Jenny Everywhere!”, he said, turning in a circle where the other cat had been.
“A Jenny Everywhere who’s a cat somehow… How does that even work?”
“Of course she’s a cat. Who wouldn’t be a cat if they could be?”, he said as if this was obvious and reasonable.
“That’s a philosophy question for the ages, I’m sure, but why did we have a feline Jenny visiting us?”
“I don’t care why she was here, I want to know if she’ll come back!”
“How would I know?”, Kim asked rhetorically.
Thoth looked up at her, then stood on his hind legs and rested his front feet on her leg.
“She has to come back!” he said. “You saw her. She was magnificent!”
Kim sighed and told him, “You’ll have to ask Jenny.”
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I don’t know what you were expecting for Valentine’s Day, but I bet it wasn’t this.
Kitty Collision
by Scott Sanford; 14 Feb 2026
One spring morning, Kim Daugherty opened her front door and found an angry cat.
It was at the top of the stairway that she had meant to use, right in front of her feet, and it was staring intently downwards and growling.
The cat did not move when the door opened, but only stared down the flight of stairs. It gave a low slow growl.
Picking up on the obvious clue, Kim peered around the door frame and down. Unsurprisingly there was another cat at the foot of the stairs, staring back up just as intently. This one was named Thoth; he lived in the building and Kim knew him well.
Thoth had his fur fluffed out in all directions, and was staring wide-eyed up the stairs. He flicked his tail back and forth nervously. He opened his mouth and hissed.
The other cat hissed back.
“Hello. I see we have company today,” she said.
Thoth ignored her, staring unblinkingly at the other cat.
The new cat hissed at him.
“I see you two are in the middle of something,” Kim observed.
Both cats ignored her.
The one near her feet gave an uncertain moan and adjusted its footing.
“Is this going to take a while?”, Kim asked.
The upper cat hissed at Thoth again.
Thoth hissed at the upper cat.
Kim was unimpressed.
But she noticed something she hadn’t been expecting about their visitor. Wrapped around the new and unfamiliar cat’s neck was not a broad pet collar but a small colorful scarf. That told her all she needed; now that she thought to look, she could see tiny goggles dangling below its chin. So in a way she did know this cat after all.
“I should have seen this coming,” she told the visiting cat, who ignored her.
She sighed.
“Look, I know who you are, I live with the human you, and you’re not even the weirdest guest we’ve had this month. Do you have to do this on the stairs?”
“MRRrrrr!”, the visitor said.
“Neither of you is just an ordinary cat… Can’t you just talk to each other?”
Thoth gave a very ordinary cat hiss.
At Kim’s feet, the other cat hissed back.
Kim sighed.
Thoth reared up and yowled, and the other cat backed away from the stairs, her hind legs pulling the rest of her body along comedically.
Then he put a single paw onto the stairs and the visitor turned and ran away from the stairs. Kim turned her head to look and found that in a closed hallway at the top of the stairs the cat was nowhere to be seen. She rolled her eyes; she’d seen that before too.
“You scared her off,” she said. “Are you happy now?”
Thoth ran up the stairs and sniffed eagerly at the floor where the other cat had been crouching.
“What? Was this a surprise?”, Kim asked. “You weren’t expecting another cat?”
“You saw her! She was another cat, in my building!,” he said. “There was another cat!”
“Yes, another cat. That makes two cats.”
“She was in my building! And she wasn’t just any cat!”, Thoth said.
“I saw that too, yes. The scarf and goggles were a dead giveaway, even before she shifted out. That was obviously a Jenny Everywhere.”
“And what a Jenny Everywhere!”, he said, turning in a circle where the other cat had been.
“A Jenny Everywhere who’s a cat somehow… How does that even work?”
“Of course she’s a cat. Who wouldn’t be a cat if they could be?”, he said as if this was obvious and reasonable.
“That’s a philosophy question for the ages, I’m sure, but why did we have a feline Jenny visiting us?”
“I don’t care why she was here, I want to know if she’ll come back!”
“How would I know?”, Kim asked rhetorically.
Thoth looked up at her, then stood on his hind legs and rested his front feet on her leg.
“She has to come back!” he said. “You saw her. She was magnificent!”
Kim sighed and told him, “You’ll have to ask Jenny.”
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