Posted by on Sep 27, 2017 | 20 comments

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Oh, boy, mama and I just finished a wonderful book called The Inner Life of Cats by Thomas McNamee, which left mama in tears and me, well, blinking slow signals to mama about how much I love her and papa.

A lovely book, covering all you would ever need to know about how to have your kitty become a loving and responsive member of your family.  I think I must have been very lucky when small, because when I found mama and papa that day in the garden as I searched for food, I felt that I was truly home and would be looked after and fed and talked to and played with and I never looked back.  I had been living in the wood storage bin outside my house, and I have never really figured out how I came to be there other than that some summer rental family dropped me off when they left after their vacation.  Then again, perhaps a family who could not keep me any longer just put me out and hoped I would be found.  It was very strange.

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At this age, I was NOT used to anthros snapping pics of me.  Here I am on the first day of being in my new home.

A little scared, I’m sure, but my fur was nice, even if I had lost some teeth, and I had been sort of…er…fixed, but not all the way so that was done again and I lolled on the couch with good behaviour until my wound healed.

But this in-depth book on kitties was very, very moving.  The way we animals are treated sometimes was a part mama couldn’t read so we fast forwarded to the next part.  Still, so much amazing information about us kitties was even a surprise to ME!  And I put my little paw over on mama’s hand quite often when we sleep next to one another.   I wonder if I can use my tail to talk in my sleep…Isabel does (the author’s cat after Augusta)?  That was such a sweet  chapter…

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(Best to get me before breakfast or dinner when I’m really in the mood to throttle something.)

I do need to play more, however, and with a bit of arthritis starting up, I don’t wish to climb as often as I did on The Rock (which I loved!).  Maybe I’ll try again just to see how I fare.  But thank you so much, Dr. McNamee, for your insightful and touching research on one of the world’s great wonders: KITTIES.  Okay, okay, doggies, too, and parrots and hamsters and turtles and whatever…

Rock climbers RULE! Here I am ladying it over the world below, haha. Get it?  LORDING?  Okay, bad joke.

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Just don’t let your pet python lie down next to you over a period of a few days.  Especially when he’s (she’s?) hungry…Remember?  He’s measuring you………