Cat Love
Nobody loves you and nobody can love you. It’s simply not the case that somebody else can slather love on and around you like butter, and you are incased in it. However, you can love and feel love about another and they can feel the same around the topic of you. So when I say I love you (and I do by the way) what I am really saying is that I feel love around you, I am filled with love because of you and I am in love, my own love, due...
Roxie and Ted discuss whether to go out
Ted: I’m going out (goes out) Roxie: I could go out. I might go out. I went out just yesterday. I note that Teddy went out. Wait I have to lick my paw (licks). Roxie: Where was I? Oh, I’m sitting here right by the window, looking out. (sees human walking by) Roxie: Hey, human, could I go out? (meows). Roxie: Okay, so the human has opened the door. Yes, I was thinking of going out. But then, I’m still up here on the window sill. That...
Roxie
Our cats arrived pre-named, and so we had little to say about that. I didn’t feel bound to the previous monikers, but was outvoted early. To me names that would be more appropriate for Roxie and Ted would be something that implied explorer or lightning bolt on the Ted side, and “the inspector” or “sniffer” for Roxie. We have acquired a sort of push through screen door so that the door can be open to let fresh air but no bugs in. It is...
Teddy
For a somewhat PETA-flavored person, having a pet is a complicated topic. Its not hard to come up with flaws in the model. Pets of course eat meat as a habit. That has to come from somewhere. And if they are cats, they are born predators – of mortal danger to anything smaller than they are that moves – flies, moths, baby rabbits, and birds. You can put a bell on them but a stalking cat hardly moves a whisker, not to mention a bell....
The Day After
Today the cats wander the house wishing for different weather they ask us to open the door now and then maybe thinking that one more time when we do somehow it will be better little do they know that it is the day after Christmas and it is the law that little or nothing can happen today
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