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Man has done something to his Picture Box, the one where he sits and taps away at things. If he doesn't do anything to it for a while then pictures come up one after another. Quite a lot of them are of us when we were kittens, but there's a few showing us as we are now. I know it's us because I recognise Shadow; and she says she recognises me. I think it must be from when he points his little silver box at us and the light goes on, but I don't actually know. Humans are so clever.

What I do know is that Shadow sits and watches it for hours. I asked her why and she said it makes her feel safe to see all the pictures of us. Also there are absolutely no pictures of dogs. Not like on the Big Moving Picture Box, where dogs suddenly appear for no reason and start barking at us. Shadow says when the dogs come on you can touch the black thing with your paw and the dogs go away again. I wish there was a thing you could push to make dogs on the road go away.

Oh, Belladonna has told us that the Big Moving Picture Box is called a TV and it is very important in our humans and we shouldn't sit right in front of it.

Shadow used to chase the humans and animals on it but Belladonna told her not to be a foolish kitten. They're not real, you can't touch them, and you're just embarrassing yourself! So Shadow has stopped doing it.