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Cat midlife
Oct. 22nd, 2009 09:08 pmThe Ladycat is nearly eleven years old. When the kidlet got a new room this summer, the Ladycat claimed one pillow of the bed, and now she hardly ever leaves that spot except for food, water, the litter box, and the occasional tussle with the Boosh, who outweighs her by 50%.
I have a constant undertone of guilt because I don't really like the Ladycat very much. I'm crazy about the Boosh because he's a cat without dignity; he's happy and dumb and loves everybody. The Ladycat is Siamese, and like many of your highborn noblecats, she's difficult. Things are not as she would wish them to be. She is dissatisfied with the world. When you try to pet her, she ducks her head away from your big filthy peasant hands.
Today I said to the kidlet, "Do you think she's happy living in your room all the time? Do you think she likes the warmth and the peace and quiet and knowing that nobody but you is going to touch her? Or does she feel like the Boosh has trapped her in that little room and won't let her out?"
The kidlet sighed at my obtuseness. "It's her retirement."
I have a constant undertone of guilt because I don't really like the Ladycat very much. I'm crazy about the Boosh because he's a cat without dignity; he's happy and dumb and loves everybody. The Ladycat is Siamese, and like many of your highborn noblecats, she's difficult. Things are not as she would wish them to be. She is dissatisfied with the world. When you try to pet her, she ducks her head away from your big filthy peasant hands.
Today I said to the kidlet, "Do you think she's happy living in your room all the time? Do you think she likes the warmth and the peace and quiet and knowing that nobody but you is going to touch her? Or does she feel like the Boosh has trapped her in that little room and won't let her out?"
The kidlet sighed at my obtuseness. "It's her retirement."