Conrad and the Cuckoo Clock

I had my Cuckoo Clock repaired, and it did not work on the wall where it used to work. My clock repair man told me to move it to another wall.

I moved the Cuckoo Clock to another wall, and it would work for 11 or 26 hours and then stop. There was no rhyme or reason for my clock’s erratic behavior. I checked to make sure the watch was level, which it was. One day my clock stopped after two hours; I was highly frustrated with my Cuckoo Clock.

Conrad, my youngest house cat, loves watching birds eat out of my bird feeders. He loves to play with cat toy birds that sing or make a noise.

Conrad could not reach my Cuckoo Clock, which used to hang on the wall. The new location for my Cuckoo Clock was next to the bookcase in my dining room. I was reading a book one day in my living room when I saw Conrad jump on top of the bookcase and stop the pendulum of the Cuckoo Clock with his paw so the pendulum would not hit him in the head as he tried to remove the singing bird from my Cuckoo Clock. I told Conrad to stop and jump down from the bookcase, which he did.

Conrad is very clever. He waits until I am outdoors before he stops the clock. Conrad has finally lost his fascination with the wooden bird in the Cuckoo Clock, and the bird can come out directly to announce the hour and the half-hour without worrying about Conrad dismantling him.

I told my clock repair man to ask people if they have a cat before he repairs their Cuckoo Clock. He got a chuckle when I said to him that Conrad was the cat burglar; my Cuckoo Clock is glad it can still announce the hour and the half-hour without Conrad’s help.

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