A while back, I found a dead but otherwise unmutilated squirrel in the middle of my living room floor. I was going to write a little story about it, framing it as a murder mystery, but the real life mystery was solved soon enough (the dog did it*) and I couldn't get the story to turn out to my satisfaction.
These were illustrations I started drawing for it. I started out with the theory that the dog brought in a live but stunned squirrel and the cats finished it off, so the cats were initially drawn as the bad guys, with Sadie as a lovable but very dumb brute.
* There was a nest of half-grown squirrels in one of the trees that all decided to start running around on the ground before they were fast enough or smart enough to evade a dog. Sadie got two more of them before the last one wised up and stopped coming into the yard.
The cat drawings are fantastic; you're giving that Lackadaisy chick a run for her money.
Did you finish the drawings of Sadie as Lenny?
Nah, it didn't turn out quite as I'd like.