The Wisdom & Beauties of Cats

Awe, the furry padded fluffy white paws, those sparkly round eyes, pointed ears and whiskers. My adorable loveable animal companion friend. Someone who greets and talks to me and we share same comfort of the couch, blankets and lives together. I guess she is an important part of my life as I am to hers. She allowed me the opportunity to see, know and  learn more about animals behaviours as seen through her. My first cat friend. Ms. Flo. I have encountered cats before but not anything like this.

I have heard that cats are independent creatures of the night. They are mysterious and anti-social creature of one. It's true, but not the whole truth. Flo doesn't get along with cats or dogs well but then who know what her story was. She was found in an abandon field. Was she lost? Or abandon by her owner? Someone dropped her off because of behaviour problems? Or she was too much inconvenience, responsibility? We do not know exactly about her history but that is history. We all have stories, some dull, some exciting, some fearful, some sad but all, beautiful chapters and stories of our lives. Her past brought her to this present. And this present was past along to me. I discovered that cats can also can be very affectionate, loyal, playfully smart and loving as like all living animals.

The many flops on the floor displaying the belly side of her shows her trust in her environment. A loving need to clean my arms and hands displays such a warm cup of love. A very sweet gesture of motherly quality. who knows, perhaps she is my mother in past lives or vica versa. We never know what happens in the working of karma.  I guess we are both learning to take care of each other. I wanted to share some cat experiences because I believe that they, liked us are full of wisdom and just because they don't speak the same language as us does not mean they are not intelligent and spunky special in their own ways.

Flo was a smarty pants today. I got her some new vegan cat kibble food (Ami cat) and to my surprise, she crunched it down with no hesitation. Me very surprised. So she liked it and more than her old kibble (Evolution). She is such a fussy and funny cat. I placed two bowls of different kind of kibbles to see what she would do. Her head swung back and forth processing which to eat? Just too comic for a cat to do that! Then later, I mixed the two dry kibbles together hoping she would eat both but guess what she did. She picked and ate ONLY the new cat food. A smarty pants or what?

Cats love fresh air and love to cool themselves off. This is also Ms. Flo's highlight of the day. Our usual routine before she heads outside is that I put her "L" walking jacket on her. Sometimes, I take her for a walk or other times, she just sits outside our screen door for a length of time depending on the temperatures. The "L" jacket on prevents choking her neck when she is on a leash, a safety device for me and her just in case she darts into dangerous paths. She is fussy at times. Anyways, if she doesn't like it, she ignores my actions by walking in a circle away from me and then this morning, Ms. Smarty pants did that plus intentionally lay down so I could not click her jacket together from under her. I let her do her thing and sometimes, she lets me do my thing of putting the jacket on her. Anyways, If she wants to go bad enough, she will definately tell me by meowing in front of me..hehe

My last example was a week ago when I discovered that the carpet underneath her litter box was folded over. I noticed it but pay no attention to it thinking, it must have folded over by accident. Well, one time when I was cleaning her litter, I noticed it again. When I unfolded it, guess what I saw? Yep, it was poop. Ryan and I looked at each other and we both announced that we both "did not do it." Folded the carpet over that is. So who did? The cat? Mrs. Smarty pants did that! I guess, that shows me that I did not do a quick enough job on cleaning her box because she poop outside her box. I must have to admit, that is pretty clever of her to do that. I wouldn't want to go in a toilet that was not flushed either. Who said that animals are not intelligent. They are smarter than you think.. \(=^.^=)~