Thank you! I wasn't trying for a sonnet this time, so I had a bit more freedom to tell the story :) Maybe I'll some day write a prose version!

Oops! Bad kitty! Ratties love wires and have chewed several over the years so I know the feeling. Hope it's fixed now. Sorry for not replying to these earlier. It's been a bad week one way and the other and I've been less active online.