Our own little Tom and Jerry episode......

Our kids have recently started watching the old Tom and Jerry cartoons and they have fallen in love with it.  I remember watching them as a child and didn't realize how mean the cat and mouse were to each other.  But the kids started watching the cartoon at the perfect time because it was right at the time when Whiskers came into our lives.  And the kids could not understand why Jake and Rex did not like Whiskers.  I explained that it was just their natural instinct.  Just like on Tom and Jerry, the cat and mouse do not get along and cats and dogs do not get along.  Soon they started to understand that Jake and Rex would probably always bark at Whiskers and chase him away, and Whiskers is always going to try to fight back by pawing at them.  What I forgot about entirely, was that cats also have an instinctual desire for.................FISH!

Note:  that our aquarium needed a glass top.  I ordered one from online and it was not the right size.  I thought I could get away with not having a top......needless to say I was on the phone with the glass company immediately and we now have a glass top perfectly placed over the fish.  And (just for the record) we do feed Whiskers.....so I don't know why he is salivating at our fish.  And the poor fish simply think he's coming to feed them so they swim right up to his paw  :)