I Love That Cat

He’s young and playful and also demanding. To imagine that I found him? He parades around and makes himself known! To look at me and go meow, as if I’m supposed to understand his request? But, as time has passed, I have become more aware of what he ask. There is the defiant stand in front of me and meow with aggression. He is demanding playtime! And I’ll grab a string, or wrap my arm in a jacket and wrestle with him. He digs in his back claws and bites ferociously!!! I will toss him and spin him and get him all worked up! It Is at these points that I forget his claws’ are still sharp on the hind legs. And he draws blood, and I make sure to wrap my arm better the next time.

Then there are those meows when he is hungry; it’s almost a whiny pleading type. Coming from a cat~ it sounds beautiful. And I say "I know what you want" then I have to tell him as I prepare to get that canned food down, hold on, wait a second, this is what you want "isn’t it?" He of course then rubs his head on my lower leg. He walks, and trips in front of me. Then I lay the food down to the ground on the kitchen floor. He’s purring and digging into that soft moist canned food. I give him a little massage on the back of the neck, so he understands who I am. I must say: If karma plays anything in life, I would like to think that the pets we own, are’ what we will come back as.

I could think of nothing greater than to comeback as a cat- with an owner like me. I pet him regularly, and I feed him the best cat food. I keep his litter box clean, and he has freedom to run wherever he wishes in the apartment. I would love to come back as my cat. He’s allowed to sleep all day long, his worries are nothing except his own playful mind, and he feels safe and secure when I’m home. To know I have this much of an influence on such a delicate and beautiful creature, I am more than pleased to be his master. I believe also that cats have a healing property. That when we touch them, some of our pain is transmuted through the action. My cat has two Egyptian looking stripes flowing- one from each side of his eyes. I consider him a most sacred animal that was created in the upper continent of Africa.

I believe my cat can even ward off evil spirits. There are times in the hallway he will look to the ceiling between the doors and meow, a very urgent meow. For a while I thought it was nothing until one morning I awoke from a nightmare and thought I saw something in the ceiling above the doorway. It spooked me enough to make me start using a night light. However, I am in no fear. For this cat demands on protecting me. Then he will chase away the spirits, who try to destroy my hope. It’s the most comforting feeling that when I’m sleeping, he plops down, and I have this warm weight bungalow between my legs, as I sleep in the fetal position… He’s a constant reminder that’ I am not alone. If I had a choice about what I would like to come back as In my next life, I would come back as my cat and constantly annoy me! AH Yes…

Thomas A. SUTOR

P.O. Box 2343

Lompoc CA 93438

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