Our house has been filled with the howls of the younger of our two old cats, Cassie. She found her long-lost ball that she loves to hunt and juggle. She holds the ball in her jaws and sounds off at the top of her lungs. What an inspiration!
It has been a year since I wrote the above, and Cassie has now passed on. She was 16. Her spirit is still with us, though, and so is her ball.
1. Cassie kills a rat and brings it in under the dining room table, in 2014. 2. Cassie and her pillow, Gwen, in 2016. 3. Cassie's ball, today.
Oh Clear, we have a cat in our family who steals socks out of the laundry, and walks around the house (head held high!) yowling loudly out the sides of his mouth. He'll go to every room and do this, it is a hoot!
I'm glad your cat has rediscovered her joy, even in the form of a rubber ball! I wonder if our cats are related, though this just may be a thing that some really cool cats do.
That sounds a lot like Cassie! She is a Maine coon mix of some kind, rescued from somewhere in Central California, but small, not large.
When she goes out in the back yard (we trained both cats to stay inside the 7-foot fence, and Cassie can only scale about 3' anyway), she roams around her territory "roaring". Being a rather small cat, the roar is rather high-pitched.
When she was young, she would regularly dip a front paw in her water bowl, look up, and "sing". Now she howls, with the ball in her mouth. She's the spirited one. The other one, Bella, is the smart one. She opens doors, and reads minds (sometimes correctly).
Our cat who has the thing for socks, when he was young he would stalk water and milk glasses. Woe be to anyone who would set a cup of milk down and walk away for a moment! Cato would just hook his paw up and pull the glass right off a table, then run away! He's a mackerel tabby with white feet and a little tux look. Thankfully he's gotten past the spilling of milk, that was awful! And Cato is quite to opener of doors as well.
Our smallest (she's 4 I think now), Lizzie, is all black except her right rear foot has a few toe-tips that are white. I consider her our 'LARPer'. She appears to spend about half of her waking hours in the sincere belief that she is some sort of sleek, larger rain forest cat. She acts panther-ish. She's quite the shouter as well, but she's more of a proclaimer of her existence than she is a parading victor.
We have four total, three of whom were Humane Society kittens.
As for the reading minds thing, I have had a couple of cats over my lifetime so far who have made me wonder. A lot.
Oh Clear, we have a cat in our family who steals socks out of the laundry, and walks around the house (head held high!) yowling loudly out the sides of his mouth. He'll go to every room and do this, it is a hoot!
I'm glad your cat has rediscovered her joy, even in the form of a rubber ball! I wonder if our cats are related, though this just may be a thing that some really cool cats do.
That sounds a lot like Cassie! She is a Maine coon mix of some kind, rescued from somewhere in Central California, but small, not large.
When she goes out in the back yard (we trained both cats to stay inside the 7-foot fence, and Cassie can only scale about 3' anyway), she roams around her territory "roaring". Being a rather small cat, the roar is rather high-pitched.
When she was young, she would regularly dip a front paw in her water bowl, look up, and "sing". Now she howls, with the ball in her mouth. She's the spirited one. The other one, Bella, is the smart one. She opens doors, and reads minds (sometimes correctly).
Our cat who has the thing for socks, when he was young he would stalk water and milk glasses. Woe be to anyone who would set a cup of milk down and walk away for a moment! Cato would just hook his paw up and pull the glass right off a table, then run away! He's a mackerel tabby with white feet and a little tux look. Thankfully he's gotten past the spilling of milk, that was awful! And Cato is quite to opener of doors as well.
Our smallest (she's 4 I think now), Lizzie, is all black except her right rear foot has a few toe-tips that are white. I consider her our 'LARPer'. She appears to spend about half of her waking hours in the sincere belief that she is some sort of sleek, larger rain forest cat. She acts panther-ish. She's quite the shouter as well, but she's more of a proclaimer of her existence than she is a parading victor.
We have four total, three of whom were Humane Society kittens.
As for the reading minds thing, I have had a couple of cats over my lifetime so far who have made me wonder. A lot.
I've learned a lot from these cats.
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We have from ours, as well.