Cuddle Cats

Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life.

That’s it really.

My life is a little unsettled at the moment, but I always know that if I feel I overwhelmed I can just sit with a cat and calm down. I was raised with dogs and I love both.

Stupid humans

When I hear a human say that they hate cats it puts my teeth on edge. Immediately I know that this person and I don’t belong on the same planet.

People love telling cat parents this, as if it matters or is interesting. All it means is “I hate” and I chose a target. Much like skin colour, religion, race, gender bashing, violence.

Hate is always about the speaker. It doesn’t matter what you hate it’s that you hate. You’re exactly what the world does not need.

Cats and dogs

Often have deeply loving relationships. I had a friend whose cat sat on the dog’s grave at the bottom of the garden for an entire week. It was pouring with rain a lot of the time. She didn’t eat. She wouldn’t come in. The looks she gave my friend it was a wonder she wasn’t spontaneously interred next to the dog.

When she did come in she didn’t interact with Sheila for another week. When their second dog died, she mounted a re run.

Some cats fear dogs, some dogs bark at cats. Most live together very happily.

The only truly racist, prejudiced, beings on the planet are human. Yet we think we’re the most intelligent. It really isn’t true.

Intelligent humans?

The cats can run rings round us. Their levels of communication are extraordinary. One flick of the tail can crucify us with guilt! How could we not have remembered that this week that cat doesn’t like this food?

Or that they drink from the black and cream bowls upstairs not downstairs?

If you’re struggling though they’re something else again. Cuddles, gentle head bops, snuggling up on the bed, a gentle kiss and a look that says “I know and I’m here”.

For forty two years I would not have been sane without them. My heart has been broken so many times and each time they stitched it back together stronger. When no one else wanted to sit with me, be with me, they did.

I can’t say the same about humans.

Our family dogs were exactly the same. Dearly loved. Knew when you were upset. And a darn site more intelligent than us.

Brett, our Golden Retriever, decided that he liked Fridays when mum came home for lunch and stayed. So on a Monday he would go and fetch her slippers, sit under the table and knock her shoes off, then try to hook her slippers over her feet. More than once she had to chase him to get her shoe back.

Animals are a lifelong saving grace for so many, and if you’re capable of loving an animal as dearly as any human, then you’re your heart is surely in the right place, bring what is needed in this world. Love, decency, and respect for all life.

Choose love always – whenever you can.

Best love

Amorah – Deb

I choose to be a loving light