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        I                                                      perplexed  with the situation,  she meowed at me
            was awakened by the cheerful chirping of a
                                                               and I was in for a shock when I realised that I could
            multitude  of  birds  and  shrill  crowing  of  the
            cock. It was a nice morning. Sunlight streamed
        through the open windows and there was a glow in       understand the  cat  language  without  hesitating.
                                                               Without further do, I started a conversation with
        the room.  The windows overlooked  a lovely  and       my owner. I communicated  with my owner and
        picturesque scenery. I felt different while trying to   explained the puzzling situation to her.
        get out of the bed. It seemed that my hands and legs
        were  shortened and  I couldn’t  walk  with  both  of         After the long but meaningful  talk, our
        my legs normally and I kept tripping myself while      stomachs growled in protest reminding  us that it
        doing so. After some struggling with the condition,    was time for breakfast. Eventually, it took us a long
        I decided to just use my hands and my legs to walk.    time trying to get downstairs as the bedroom was
                                                               at the second floor. After the long but ‘adventurous’
                I  turned  around  to  see  my  pet  cat,  Fluffy,   walk, we finally decided to have a simple breakfast
        but to my horror, I saw  myself sleeping soundly       as my owner didn’t know how to cook. I had milk
        beside me. I then rushed to the mirror that was        while she had bread with peanut butter. While I was
        located to the back of the cupboard door and I was     enjoying the milk, I saw my owner struggling on how
        flabbergasted to see an orange, furry-kind of animal,   to hold the bread without dropping it. I ‘meowed’
        like a cat, standing in front of me. I then realised that   to my owner that using both hands to support the
        I couldn’t speak the human language anymore and        bread would be the best way of preventing the bread
        some ‘meows’ were coming out from my mouth.            falling. I chuckled and realised that my priority is to
        To my astonishment, I realised that I had switched     help my owner to ‘survive’ this situation.
        places with my pet cat, Fluffy.












                                                                      After having our breakfast, it was time for
                                                               our morning jog. My owner fumbled with the keys
                                                               while trying to find the correct one to open the house
                                                               gate. I helped her by organising the keys and told
                                                               her the keys’ uses. We then finally had a 40-minute
                I decided to go closer to my ‘owner’ and       jog at the park a stone’s throw away from our house
        licked her face, trying to wake her up but to no avail.   and had a lot of breathes of fresh air and we could
        After continuously trying, I finally decided to muster   hear the crickets cricketing, birds tweeting and some
        up my courage and made some annoying sounds to         owners along with their pets were also jogging too.
        wake her up. In a minute of two, my owner gently
        opened her eyes and looked at me with an angry                The  radiant  sun hung high  in  the  sapphire
        face, or rather a grumpy face. My owner was also       blue sky. It was fiery and strong. It was the afternoon

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