March 3 is World Wildlife Day. https://www.wildlifeday.org/en
Mitzi and I are remembering Freya. She was a wildlife warrior, as you could see from the wonderful drawings and paintings she made on our visit to the Interior of Australia. She was also a highly ranked feline coordinator of the effort to alert humans to their inappropriate behaviour in looking after our wonderful planet. So we are, for today only, interrupting our series on the Poodle Ball to show you some of the training sessions we had when Freya was in Adelaide.
Mitzi, with her work at the Adventure Centre for kittens, was already aware of Freya’s important role in South Africa, because one of Freya’s tasks was liaising with cats in branches of the organisation in other countries. Mitzi and Freya had spent some time together at a conference in London.
I had no idea any of this was going on. I mostly occupied myself looking after my human. Supervising a human can be a huge task. Some of you may have an easier time, but I still spend a lot of time tapping my human with my paw to remind her of her duties. Sometimes I need to use the Voice of Command.
Anyway, Freya took us to an outdoor training centre where felines not only undertook rigorous physical training, but also planned strategies to make humans more environmentally aware.
My nephew Otto, who was visiting from Queensland at the time, was in great physical shape and had no trouble springing around. I had a hard time keeping up with him. Otto even had another name in his role as an agent for the Feline Wildlife Warriors. I was startled when Freya referred to him as Shadow. Only the felines in their secret service branch have special names.
The first video shows the medal presentation. Otto won a special award for his work in Queensland. He told us that his pawrent is very proud of him.
After our physical activities, we spent considerable time planning future efforts. Cat leaders had gathered for the planning, some travelling long distances. I was impressed by their dedication.
I haven’t had much of a chance to talk about our conservation efforts for a while. Losing Freya was a big blow to all of us. Mitzi says we must hold the line and work even harder.
In the next post, we are back to the Poodle Ball.
These videos were generated by AI using the author’s text.
