Today's Bad Luck

I must check the bushes, for I am sure that one of Nick the Cat's relations is lurking nearby, due to the sudden upswing in bad luck. Really, it's too horrible to be believed. First, Cousin Don H. had the absolute, unmitigated nerve to die, and worse, to leave a nice fat obituary in the paper, just ready for the human to find and stick on that awful tree. And, even worse, when she was poking around, looking for more relation names for what I thought was the relatively safe task of package labeling, the human believes she might have stumbled onto yet another relation twist. I know I saw branches on that tree twitching. Not a good sign. It will surely start to grow next, and what if nuts start to drop from it?