Saturday, Apr. 28, 2012 - 6:07 p.m.
My Cat Remembers Things ************************* I sit here amazed as my cat goes back in time and has all afternoon presented in the form of a little play just for me, a pantomime of the things we used to do three and a half years ago when he was just a kitten. He pawed at a box he used to sleep in back then that I now keep paper in making sure i could see him doing this. Then he sang some weirdo throaty vocalizations ( I dare not say songs ) he used to as a kitten, I had completely forgotten about them- one was "catch me " the other was " I love this catnip" after I gave him some today playing along Seems hes putting on a nostalgia show just for me.. not all at once like a TV show but he'll come in here off and on all day and perform something that lets me know he has memories.. now heinsists I clear a chair for him that he has not sat on in three years andis now laying on it- he's much bigger than he was was when he used to lay on it.. he hangs over the sides Whats with this cat nostalgia display?? he has food so he's not acting out that he's hungry. I open the door for him but he doesn't want to go out I wonder deep down if he has not communed with the cats across the street who told him their human is dead as my old neibour Ted died a few days ago and did these orphan cats suggest he re enforces his bonds with his human- ( that would be me ) Did Taser put on a deliberate show of special moments in review to show me something he was feeling ? it was a little theatre here today I have never experienced that before Now he's curled up in a ball on a chair too small for him playing the nice cat sleeping, usually he disappears into adark closet to nap and i leave him alone.. and today he walks on me as he steps off the desk onto the floor- he hasn't done that since he was too small to jump straight down to the floor Indeed, I got a little emo show this afternoon -- one or two recreated events would be a co incidence,, but all of these acts in a row since noon ? its deliberate what ever it is,, when I saw him reach for my pencil as I was drawing with it he used to swat at my moving pencil when he was tiny - but hasn;t in a very long time I looked him in the eye- then he head butted me.. something is going on I have never seen this behavior before, even when he was hurt bad from the coyote attack in the winter and I was taking care of him. It's the Androcules factor.. go ahead tease me and call me a cat wacky, but I am seeing this today as acontinious demonstration of my four year old car Taser remembering how we used to be when he was small... more than three years ago... he's four years old now... odd but very nice Taser has been more chummy today than he has been for the whole pf last winter put together.. My cat is saying thank you in an all day salutation without prompting and hes well and fed this is a new one for me and its OK
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