Lev Detkin she loved - he always brought pieces of chicken or trimming sausages from the house, and sometimes even bought pieces for her stern with food. His brothers and sisters liked the cat less: the younger Detkin struggled to grab her by the tail, the eldest - wrap in a wool handkerchief and sing a lullaby. Levka, according to the cat, was the best and harmless in the family, but he also called her a terrible name "Duskin". "I'm Isolde!" - More than once explained the cat in their own language. But no one who did not understand, did not hear and did not pay due honors of her royal person. Meanwhile, he had a peer of this house and the most important local old-timer.
Dusia-Isolde was born in the summer when there was a wasteland at the site of the courtyard and a multicolored multi-storey complex "the heart" in the city of Pushkin. Her red mother's mother-in-law was taken to the city, and the knotted brood of the kittens landed from the car along the road, in the first deserted place. The tasty brothers and sisters were lucky - they disassembled the kids in the cat. Herus herself, the only three-color in the entire family, remained on the wasteland. People often then said that such as it is called turtle and bring happiness. But so far I have not watched a lot of luck in your life. True, there was one point: when she had already frozen and gathered to die with hunger, the workers appeared on the wasteland, put the time and began to feed the duskey Shaverm and Belyasha. Well, and then the construction was boiled, and among the workers of Luda had a lot of generous and dignity.
When the house began to profit, a cat appeared new friends. Many of the apartment owners fed Dosus, played with her. And even stuck fur rug on one of the black stairs, so that she hides in bad weather. But most of all in the world duskey dreamed of real love. To see her any person and not just fed, but took to him to live. So far, those who want to gain happiness is absolutely nothing. Snooch is silence several times rubbed back about the red swing, around which the people were now crowded. She heard people said: Magic swings, they fulfill wishes.
People and did not guessed that the duskey was a modern and educated cat. She removed his knowledge from a small drawer, which showed human life. The cat got acquainted with him at the time of the workers, when the construction was just beginning. Then he saw the same box with moving pictures in a duty booth of the duty officer, sitting in the barrier of the parking lot. She often began to boo around and watch out what was happening on the screen.
The box showed everything: how people live inside their apartments, as they communicate with each other, what they eat for lunch and even as they sleep together. And one day, the incredible was treated - such a huge puddle that it was not visible to her, and somewhere far behind the sparkling ripples the sun was sump. It was called the puddler's word "sea". For some reason, near the puddles, for some reason, they were sitting on the brown people and smiled from happiness to the ears.
From the drawer Dusya learned an interesting idea for himself. She learned that many girls and girls lead a diary - this is such a notebook, where everything about love and relationships with guys are written. Since the passions in the life of the cat has not yet happened ("imagined" in her courtyard, together with the owners of the grooms, Dusia mercilessly chasingly), she decided to write about people from the courtyard. Yes, and the cat's notebooks were also not, she just twisted her own thoughts on a small machine lost in summer some kind of man. It was called the technique with a complex word "voice recorder".
... a girl in a golden jacket and in his boots at high heels did not love silence. That all the time tormented to remove it from the road and sieves: "Do not confuse under your feet!" In his diary, the cat noted: "Nina. Looking and imagined. Cats does not like. " A few days later added: "With love, she is generally tight. It would still be so harmful. "
Dosus brought a huge collar on a girl's jacket horror. It was from the animal fur, a color similar to her own skirt. And what if it is also a cat, only a big, which was killed for the sake of human whim? On the keys from the car at Nina, someone's tail chatted. And when the girl went into the courtyard in new shoes, confused with brightly red fur, the soul of the cat could not stand.
Dusya realized that the neighbor was unloved by it - the hunter. She kills animals on the streets of the city, and then orders clothes and footwear from fur of their trophies. The red top of the Nina's boot reminded the dust orange color of her cat's mother, and the poor fellow almost cried. For the killed fellow women, a black and white-red cat decided to take revenge. She knew the girl's apartment and, quietly enchanting in the entrance, was sharpening a new braided rug at the threshold of Nina. And then, sneaking, jumped and hung on the door, covered with something very durable. The cat strongly tried and left a noticeable walkway with claws on the upholstery.
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