These posts tend to be heavy, so I thought I’d throw one in that is
light, on the imitation that our cats show. That started when my partner’s
daughter was living here with her dog, Sebastian. Seb had the habit of using
his cold, wet snoz (nose, for those of
you unfamiliar with 60s Queensland and Victorian school yard slang ... although I've seen that elsewhere) to get
attention. Now, all three cats we have do exactly the same – and a very
disconcerting experience it can be, I tell you.
But it doesn’t stop there.
I like drinking coffee. So does Saffron.
Well, he doesn’t drink the coffee directly, he licks out the cup after
I’ve finished it - if I let him: he’s limited to 2 cups a day, as even that has
cut his daily nap time down to 20 hours or so.
Something else I do - or try to - is walking, for better health and
fitness. For a whole range of reasons, including shelter from the weather, the
convenience of being at home (particularly
if I experience any of the effects of diabetes), I walk at home. I often
joke that going from the front door to the back door 3 million times is a 2 km
walk … Luna shares this theory, but she’s a bit smaller, so she does her 3
million laps from head to foot of the bed … every night, when I’m trying to get
to sleep.
Finally, there is Willow. Well, Willow has started doing this strange
yowling – it’s the sort of painful sound that usually means “Mum I can’t see
you and I desperately need a pat” (or
some form of reassurance), but what we’ve found is that he makes this
yowling when he has an empty cardboard toilet paper roll in his mouth. The
empty rolls been disappearing from the basked we put them in before recycling
them, and reappearing on our bed (where
the cats tend to deposit their toys for ready access in case they want to play).
And the realisation is … he is imitating our attempts to care for others. But
where we would heal someone, for instance, he liberates the empty cardboard
toilet paper rolls, and takes them to be free in his home –the bed.
Ah, the joys of pets - provided one is caring and responsible.
PS – our experiences with our
pets is another book I am working on, and I also expect to finish that one in a
couple of decades or so.
[2] Please see here, here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")
[3] I apologise for the formatting: it seems Blogger is
no longer as WYSIWYG as it used to be, and there are a lot of unwanted
changes to layout made upon publishing, so I often have to edit it immediately
after publishing to get the format as close to what I want as possible.
Love, light, hugs and blessings
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix
Lux … aka Morinehtar … would-be drýicgan or maga
... )
My "blogiography" (list of all posts and guide as to how to best use this
site) is here, and my glossary/index is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue
(see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "Pagans for Peace" project (and join me
for a few minutes at some time between 8 and 11 PM on Sunday, wherever you are,
to meditate-clear for peace), and here
for my bindrune kit-bag. I also strongly recommend
learning how to flame, ground
and shield, do alternate
nostril breathing, work
with colour, and see also here and be
flexible.
Tags: about me, cats, humour,
First published: Wodansdagr, 6th May, 2015
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's
and other minor matters): Wednesday, 6th May, 2015
