He's Not Heavy; He's My Brother (Sort of)

This is what poor Cuddles has to put up with: an overbearing (literally) black cat sitting on her roof like some sort of vulture or evil Santa Claus, thinking about coming down the chimney. Luckily the cage lid holds. And luckily, Cuddles seems to have kept her appetite. Meanwhile, note that above the cage and to the right is a detail of Raychel Stine's The Confrontation(2007). Not only is Raychel an amazingly talented young painter, who burned up Dallas before going off to grad school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she's working up a storm; but she also has managed to make rats, ferrets, and dachshunds co-exist both in art and in life, no small feat. No wonder I put Cuddles' cage underneath her for inspiration.