Day 27: The mystery of the missing blue cloth??!!

The Abominable Snowman, The Loch Ness Monster, etc. Among these storied mysteries of our lifetime emerges a brand new one! This is the story of the mysterious missing blue-cloth in our kitchen. Rising from its humble beginnings of wiping up table remains to the mystery that confounded us for a whole 2 weeks!



It all started pretty innocently enough. To the uninitiated, the blue-cloth mentioned is the reusable type that we usually use to wipe up table scraps, and clean kitchen surfaces. Then we will do a quick rinse wash in the sink, and leave it to dry on the countertop.

Beginning about one and half weeks ago, we lost our first blue cloth. First we attributed it to regular wear and tear, that we probably misplaced it somewhere. So, easily enough, we moved on and tore out another piece from our roll in storage. We noticed something was fishy went we lost the second blue cloth a week later! Thinking that in our old age, we might be getting a little senile already, we tore our another one.

Three days later... GONE. And it happened when we were in the house. Losing two of them in a week seemed unusual. Three of them, and when we were home was downright SPOOKY. Now, if this happened in the first few weeks that we moved in the house, we would have been packing up our bags, and selling the spooked place!

Worse, we were getting concerned...because the disappearances were ESCALATING. The next cloth was gone in 1 hour. It was between the time we finished cooking and happened halfway thru dinner!! Now this is just too much! What self-respecting spirit/force just makes cloths disappear?!?!?!

1 More day later...THIS HAPPENED...
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.HA! Caught him in the act.
I took this picture a little early cos a few seconds later, he had almost half the cloth in his mouth already! At first, the look on his face was a combination of shock and guilt as he froze in place immediately. Then almost in a fluid motion, he spit out the offending item with a *Blawh*, and just casually decided to walk away from the crime scene!!! If dogs could whistle, and stroll, that's what it looked like!

So for the past few weeks, Mr Batman here has consumed enough fiber to wipe clear our entire kitchen floor! We're still clueless about why the cloth is so delicious to him, but one thing is for sure. HE LOVES them. We have been on a constant vigil for the last few days, making sure he doesn't stand on 2 feet and swipe some more of them.

Don't worry though. He is fine. The stuff came out the other end of his body about a day after he eats them!!