"I'd love to know what they think a vacuum cleaner is!"

He he he. Think of this. Cats have 5 times better hearing than humans. That means your cats hear that loud noise 5 times louder. To them it sounds like the loudest police siren!

Cats know everything about whats on the floor. And they know, that when the vacuum cleaner catches something, that that thing is NEVER seen again. Never. It goes in the tube, and it never comes back.

A cruel and arbitrary military police force, randomly arresting and taking into custody anything it catches, forever.

And the worst thing. They know YOU are working with this terrible enemy. You are helping it. They see you pushing it. They know what you are doing. You are collaborating with the enemy. Sometimes you even point them out to this terrible thing and it chases them.

But they know another thing. After that terrible noisy cat catching police force leaves town, you will make a fuss of them and love them again.

Just gotta be quick, find that hiding place, and wait till the cat cops leave town.

Checker reminds me of TS Eliot's poem, "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Here's an adapted quote:

"His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,
And when you reach the scene of crime—Checker's not there!
You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air—
But I tell you once and once again, Checker's not there!"