Helping Like Cats
Apr. 28th, 2011 09:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteThere are many challenges that come with keeping cats as pets - or, as they would prefer it to be phrased, letting cats keep you as a pet. There are the furry tumbleweeds around the house, the claws in sensitive places, the hour or so of incessant yowling before dinnertime, and a host of other "helpful" behaviors that I could keep listing.
But there are some benefits, too. Like when you wake up at 4am from the worst nightmare you can ever remember having, and you're half-curled into a fetal position crying with choking, howling, pre-lingual body-convulsing sobs, and he comes trotting immediately - but with that nonchalance that only cats can master - into the room, hops calmly onto the bed, curls up against your side, and starts kneading against you and purring. And he won't stop, no matter the shaking and the noise, until you're able to calm down and breathe again, and stays with you until you can fall back asleep.
Yeah, I think I'll keep him. He's earned the right to shed on my costumes and claw my sofa.
But there are some benefits, too. Like when you wake up at 4am from the worst nightmare you can ever remember having, and you're half-curled into a fetal position crying with choking, howling, pre-lingual body-convulsing sobs, and he comes trotting immediately - but with that nonchalance that only cats can master - into the room, hops calmly onto the bed, curls up against your side, and starts kneading against you and purring. And he won't stop, no matter the shaking and the noise, until you're able to calm down and breathe again, and stays with you until you can fall back asleep.
Yeah, I think I'll keep him. He's earned the right to shed on my costumes and claw my sofa.
