My cats lick me quite often. They are obviously sending a thinly veiled message: “if you forget to feed us, you’ll be our next meal.”
They can do whatever they want after I’m dead. Heck, it could save my family the cost of a casket. But, I’m a sound sleeper. Coupled with the numbness of diabetic neuropathy, I’m afraid I may wake up one morning nibbled away up to my kneecaps.
Rocky, on the right, is our old big boy. The other two are a brother-sister duo we adopted a couple of years ago: Irving, the little panther, and Opehlia, the average-sized tigress.
I see now that I am short of my quota. At 1600 square feet, I guess I’m supposed to have three more cats. But that would throw off the balance in our household: the cat to human ratio is 1:1, as is the gender ratio.
There are three cats in my house and for the love of everything that is holy in the world and beyond, I can’t find a single reason to like them. Nothing in my life would be worse if they didn’t exist. Sure, my wife and kids love them, but me, nope.
I have to love my cats. Nobody save my granddaughter even likes them. They are special, overbred, high-toned beautiful animals. I am so enamoured of them i constantly find myself at odds with normal behavior. I convince myself they love me back. On good days they are a joy to interact with. But, bad days, omg bad days, what can i say? I will be their servant until I, or they buy the farm.