Murray Mandryk: Scott Cat had cheese for all in Mouseland this year

Meek or fierce, poor or wealthy, raw-boned skinny or plump like a body-shamed Christmas goose, quickly each Mouseland critter that gathered below their chief’s balcony this snowy Christmas Eve would get their cheese.

Carefully measured in allotments of 500 mouse {dollars}, every received the identical quantity — simply sufficient to make the poorest of critters really feel wealthy, however not so meagre that the fattest of Mouseland cats might merely ignore it.

But what fats cat has ever handed up any quantity of free stuff tossed out by somebody in authorities?

Scott Cat grinned from cat whisker to cat whisker, happy along with his magnanimous generosity as if that cheese he was tossing was his personal and never already collected from the poor critters struggling to warmth their dens or gentle their lamps.

Flash again to final year’s Christmas Eve  when all method of Mouseland critter have been protesting below his balcony  — some honking like deranged loons for locking down Mouseland to cease the illness whereas others have been shrieking at him like night time bats for not doing extra.

Many demanding he do extra have been mice, though mice have been indignant at most every part the cat authorities did. Mostly, they have been simply indignant as a result of it absolutely felt the cat authorities can be there without end. Poor Carla Mouse, the newest mouse chief some noticed because the mousiest of the mice.

So they protested, for what else might poor mice might do?  After all, generally being seen to be protesting was extra essential to a mouse than no matter situation it was they have been protesting about.

Mouseland now brimmed with all kinds of other critters. There have been geese and chickens and gophers who tilled the soil and fiercely grumbled probably the most concerning the white fluffy Persian cat named Justin who was taxing their gas, taking their weapons and — maybe worst of all — audaciously testing their water.

There have been bunnies who wore their hugs and coyotes and weasels who consistently lobbied authorities for extra cheese for fats cats. There have been turkeys and cows and donkeys nonetheless stubbornly braying about their freedoms and rights to horse vaccinations.

Critters from all over God’s inexperienced Earth that had discovered a brand new residence in Mouseland. There have been even sightings of Loch Ness monsters who have been as fictitious as this kingdom.

If you stretched your creativeness to level that Scott Cat might the place he might see a nation inside a nation, you might need even seen dinosaurs strolling amidst the opposite critters this year.

There had all the time been plenty of hissing cats in Mouseland, so named by an old church mouse named Tommy.  Tommy Mouse found there have been simply sufficient mice in Mouseland to kind authorities if the white cats and the black cats stored preventing amongst themselves.

However, about 25 years in the past, the white cats (such as they were) and black cats got together to kind the surprisingly named Mouseland Party. Then the black cats drove all the white cats out of the get together.

Only two white cats remained in Mouseland, though most believed they have been actually simply confused mice.

But this Christmas Eve, Scott Cat smiled at his bounty. The crowd cheered as he flung them one other block of cheese.

Mandryk is the political columnist for the Regina Leader-Post and the Saskatoon StarPhoenix.

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