If you could make your pet understand one thing, what would it be?
If it’s just one then I would want to know more than anything that they know they’re loved.
I tell them all the time and I treat them the way I would wish to be treated. As does Tony.
In a multicat household you will get issues sometimes, but you have to understand that they’re not being naughty, they’re distressed about something. You can’t judge beings who can’t speak for showing you they need help.
You really need to understand that with pets.
You also need to understand that they don’t know that carpet, furniture, wallpaper, etc., are important. They have no idea about money. You bought them into your world and it’s a world they can never understand.
As such you need unconditional love for them. One of the most wonderful things I discovered through them is that I’m capable of that. That has extended to the people I know and come in contact with.
Things I would like to understand are:
- What food do you actually like?
- Why do you need to test the air when it’s cold, insist on going out, then need to come back in urgently the instant I sit down?
- Why ladies do you upend your water bowl so regularly and why Mimsy do you need to scoop your food into your water then make a mess trying to get it back out again?
- Hito, why do you have to sit and stare at me for ages, then I go and check that you have food, then you eat two mouthfuls, come back and stare at me again?
- Marcus why do you have authorised cuddling spots, when you could sit on our laps on the sofa all night. Why are your authorised times just before bed when I would cuddle you all day, any time, and am available to do so.
- Nero, why aren’t your siblings as uncomplicated as you?
But I never forget the question that needs no answer, what would I do without them? They have been my saving grace, all 14 of them. When you’re childless, which you thought was by choice but turned out you’re lucky you didn’t want children because you can’t have them anyway, you do need something more important than you.
You also need something that makes you smile, and they do that every day.
Gotta go, Mimsy is now examining the bath again, and that didn’t end well the last time she did it. Lily jumped up beside her and knocked her in.
Love Deb xx
Deb Hawken - Amorah 