Booster Seat Violation!
This time Otter Keeper has gone too far…
Well I really don’t even know where to begin this time. Now, as you know, I really love going in the car. Me and Otter Keeper go to lots of nice places. Inside cars you have amazing sofas that are just perfect for otter bouncing. There’s also lots of buttons to press and sometimes even music! Being in a car is really quite exciting for an otter, as you can see.
But the other day Otter Keeper sat me down. He told me he had something to explain to me. I don’t really like it when tries to ‘explain things’ to me because I don’t always understand what he’s talking about. I didn’t really this time either but it was something to do with being well behaved in the car and a new seat he had bought. I told him I understood, because to be honest, seats are quite a boring thing to talk to Otter Keeper about. I also wanted to get on with the game of hide and seek I had promised to play with Teddy that evening. So I went off to the other room, thinking that was the end of it. It wasn’t.
The next day Otter Keeper said we were going in the car. It was then that he introduced me to the new ‘booster seat’. Otter Keeper told me it was a special seat for otters that stop them causing a nuisance whilst in the car. Ummm…. What?
The booster seat is the worst thing ever !
I HATE the Booster seat!
Otter Keeper straps me into it and then I can’t move! I can’t even reach my ball or my books or any other other car toys for that matter! Why would he do this? it just makes no sense? I think maybe Kate (the neighbour) has something to do with it, I saw Otter Keeper talking to her in the garden the other day….
Otter keeper must change his ways or I’m going to get very cross. I think I might start a petition against the booster seat, or maybe even against Otter Keeper himself If he doesn’t behave. He actually said I’m very lucky to have my own special seat for the car. Honestly I just don’t know what is wrong with him. Is he mad?
Oh Otter, I was in a car accident a couple of weeks ago – when a wicked LORRY bashed into the front of my car. I was strapped into my seat and it SAVED MY LIFE. So be a good otter and sit nicely in your seat. After all, you are higher up now so you can see out of the windows. What you need is for Otter Keeper to give you a bag by your seat so you can reach your book or ball.
Otter, the seat maybe can be like a trap, but it would save your life in a car accident, so think about it. Take care, ok?
Greetings from Mexico
🙂
Dear Otter, I have to put my siamese cats in a carrier when we travel, otherwise they climb all over the car while I’m trying to drive, which isn’t easy in California even without their help. They love to sit in the carrier (they think it’s a cave or something) when it’s in the house, but yowl like there’s no tomorrow when I shut the door on them. (Brain of cat = size of walnut.) I am sorry Otter Keeper put you a booster seat – but it looks sort of cool, like what the astronauts sit in to fly to the moon. And it is a special Otter seat – it’s much different from what my cats ride in (yowling like I’ve been sticking them with pins instead of sitting in the front seat driving the car). And it looks like you could snuggle up with a blanket and a cup of Otter chow (no coffee, though) and be perfectly happy on a long drive. I would be, anyway. I’d kind of like a booster seat, myself.
Dear Otter,
Otter Keeper just needs to get you a pouch that attaches to the seat to hold your books and toys. And they make trays that attach to the seat, too.
I know you are annoyed, but I think Otter Keeper just wants to be sure you’ll be safe in case there’s an accident or something.
Dear Jimmy Lee,
Otter can’t be but seduced and convinced by your lovely explanations and I hope it will easier now for her to accept booster seat. You say brain of a cat has the size of walnut but your cats would perhaps enjoy travelling by car if Otter would lend you her “Cats” book for them. It seems to be very nice and they probably wouldn’t even notice that they’re in a carrier while they’d look at it and think they were at cinema … and forget to yowl. A whistling otter could be really annoying but I don’t dare to think how annoying could be the yowling of several siamese cats. You wouldn’t hear even sirenes of police cars if they make a chorus.
You need to be as big as a capybara like I am. Then there won’t be a booster seat big enough for you and you could just bite anyone who tried to strap you in anyway. I go everywhere in the car with my owner but never, never, ever go in a booster seat.
I do understand otter i wouldn’t like being in a booster seat there’s no need for it
Poor fellow! I can’t trust my eyes! That’s you Otter!? And Keeper did that!!!??? Shame on him! – I’m… – I can’t find my words. He DARED !!! I’m…- It’s a CRIME, you know, to steal one’s freedom even it’s just freedom of an otter nobody cares.
Since I saw you, I have been searching in Keeper’s books to find a way to free you from this odious booster seat. It seems to be very complicated but I found something you have in Britain and that’s called “habeas corpus”. (It’s Latin and it means that your body belongs to yourself and I suppose it would give me the right to make a tongue piercing next Christmas whatever Keeper may say against it. You already know it, I love Latin because of Asterix although I’m not sure to understand it clearly). I understand all I need and that’s useful for life. So back to your own case now (I love digressions too!). You just need to say “habeas corpus” to Keeper and he’ll understand because it’s a way to let him know that you have means to defend yourself against those who try to throw into jail other people although they did nothing wrong and if Keeper doesn’t understand, tell him you’ll call a lawyer who’ll explain it to him and you’ll go to the court and claim for your rights.
Before I saw you, I didn’t even know booster seats exist and I didn’t know they were for children. Humans are crazy to strap their children in so strange seats but let them do it if they want to torture their own descendance but they can’t do the same with us because we’re animals and we’re free, free to live with Keepers or not, free to step into their cars or not, free or not to…hmm…I don’t know what else but…What I’m sure is that I’m free because I’m an otter and a French otter and that means I’m more free than others. ” Liberté !…”
I just need to find my flag to support your cause and I’ll launch an “appel” for next saturday via internet : “All otters of France unite and steal booster seats to burn them at the column of the Bastille…Otters of our country, the glorious day has come, let’s burn the signs of our slavery. Let’s celebrate the freedom of our fellow otters fighting for our rights !!!” I don’t know whether you’ll recognize it : I adapted our National anthem and I tried to whistle and even to sing it with my new text and I’m quite satisfied. Keeper says I’m not but I’m sure : I have a real musical talent. I must just train it like I do now. Perhaps I should wait till next July 14th because otters will need some time to read my anouncement and to find booster seats and lots of them probably are not as privileged as we’re and have no internet.
It’s too humiliating to be treated as a child, it’s unbearable and it’s very important to seek help on the web. You were absolutely right to send that repulsive and shocking document round the world to alert otterfriends about that attack against our dignity. And, last but not least : seat chosen by Keeper is ugly. What a ridiculous design ! It’s for babies or fools but not for clever beings like us. He could at least make appropriate illustrations on the material than buy that stupid thing which lacks of class cruelly. He has so much imagination and he found nothing else than a childish seat that’s nothing you can dream on and he dares to call this a surprise. You must have a very serious conversation with him and obtain a reconsideration of the booster seat model : it’s the minimum he can do for you. If he refuses to be conciliant, you have no other choice than to organize your personal strike in front of the car or at least make a sit-in. French people are very clever in organizing such kind of events, so I could help you with logistics and, of course, don’t forget to send your petition to the International Otter Survival Fund. I’m sure they’ll support you! Of course I’ll sign it. (I had to ask Keeper what a petition is and I’m very proud now to have a new word to use against her when we play scrabble together).
I’m a little bit scared when you say you love to bounce on car seats. I love car seats (and those of your Keeper’s car look really great)especially when I can lay down on them with my blanket but bouncing on them – Hmm…!- I don’t know. I fear to knock my head against ceiling and faint and I don’t like so much to be in a vehicle, neither car nor train, because I feel like throwing up on longer travels. So Keeper has to give me some drugs against travelsickness which make me sleep almost till destination and have sweatest dreams I can’t imagine having in a booster seat. I’d just have nightmares !!!
While translating my words, Keeper sometimes had a strange smile on her lips and, as I asked her why, she just kept on smiling and said at the end that she has no intention to cut off my rights of free individual expression because she is too scared by the fact I could launch a petition against her. I’m a bit in trouble now !!! ??? I must speak to her tomorrow because I love her and I don’t like when she’s so ambiguous…
I love Otter! You need to post more often than every couple months!
I love Otter, too! I am still catching up with all the great Otter stories – I see the picture of Otter in that contraption of a booster seat – I know it makes you unhappy – but Otter Keeper has to keep you safe! If something bad were to happen to Otter, like get hurt in the car — I can’t even think about it. I was in a terrible car accident which was caused by someone not following the rules – I was seriously injured – Otter Keeper can not allow that to happen to you! By now, I’m sure Otter Keeper figured out a way to make you happy in the booster seat and be able to reach your favorite toys! Let us know how things are going!