Sassy

Describe a family member.

We have one very determined girl in our family. She is the youngest, the sassiest, and definitely the most determined. She is also the smallest.

A couple of weeks ago she needed to go to the vets for her yearly check up, her first. She is child number 14!

We have been taking cats to the vets since 1984, and never failed to get a cat in a basket, even when they clearly weren’t keen. Amie used to scream all the way to the vets, and I do mean scream not miaow. Like a banshee. Our house move up here was a 2 1/2 hour drive. She did not stop.

But Miss Lily took the biscuit as we English say.

We popped her sister in the basket and she settled down, I picked up Lily to put her in with her, she went in and then there was a black and white eruption and a streak flew past us.

She went down to the lounge and we followed, I suggested that Tony got the small basket thinking we could pop her in more easily and slam the door faster.

We ‘popped’ her in and she exited like a champagne cork under pressure, flew around the room at a speed that would put a formula one driver to shame, and eventually ran straight into the lounge doors bruising her little nose. Fortunately she only ran a couple of feet so it wasn’t too bad.

That’s when I rang the vet and told them that Miss Lily would not be attending today. I realised we had to back off otherwise she would develop a real thing about it that could lead to problems later on.

Now we have to find a safe way to transport Miss Lily, we will start with acclimatising her to a basket by just leaving one in the lounge with a bed and treats in it.

Sigh.

Respect for all living things

I wonder how many people might read this and say “it’s not family it’s an animal”?

I enjoy The Orphan X books by Gregg Hurwitz, they’re violent but they also explore a great deal about relationships, and the Good and bad that can exist side-by-side in a human. He has a saying:

“How you do anything is how you do everything”

In other words always work to the highest standards and don’t compromise. I would say for the purposes of this point:

How you treat anything is how you treat everything.

The Woke/Whatever divide

I understand who the woke are, caring people with respect for all living things including the planet. Even the Stratosphere!

I do not understand what our detractors are. Why they find genuine caring, consideration, and respect to be a problem.

Do they want their children treated the way they treat others? Does a troll of a parent get really outraged, angry, and upset if someone picks on their child and upsets them? I don’t know.

The Whatever’s would probably be outraged that to us a cat is family. To us they’re living beings with rights. We made the choice that they would live with us so we treat them with respect and make their needs important. Because:

How we do everything is a reflection of who we are

We don’t want to be any other way.

Immediately I’m trolled on social media I block that person. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them. I’m sure they will have a good side with those they love and like, but their casual treatment of a total stranger, without so much as asking why you feel that way, makes no sense.

We learn by discussion we are divided by spite.

Two recent trolling episodes have been supporting Sir Gareth Southgate’s knighthood. Firstly, there has to be a significant element of charity work for any celebrity to get a gong, as we call them. Secondly, he is our most successful manager of the England Football team since Sir Alf Ramsay in 1966. He got them to four finals during his tenure.

The second was similar, supporting Harry Kane, also of the England team, our highest goal scorer by a New York Mile. According to the trolls he is still not good enough.

The times we sit there and scream “for goodness sake get the ball to Kane, he’s right in front of the goal waiting” are without number. But he gets the blame for not scoring more. Give him the ball and he will almost certainly score.

Those two episodes are a significant warning along the lines of:

How you treat anyone is likely to be the way you treat everyone.

Decent people be warned. If you meet us we will treat you as we treat our cats. With the utmost respect for the differences that make us unique.

Love as much as you can wherever you can, it’s the anti-war, anti-violence, anti-cruelty, anti trolling, emotion. There is nothing more important in this world. Nothing more needed.

Best love

Amorah – Deb

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