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January 5th, 2007

What greater gift than the love of a cat?  ~Charles Dickens


Sadie and Emma

Didn't get around to posting this last night, but Krista has posted the theme of "Sustenance" on CaC. The first thing that came to mind was a picture I took recently of my two kitty girls (we live in 4 cat household, one cat being origninally the fiansor's, two being originally mine and one is ours together.) Sadie and Emma have been my longest relationship (9 years!), they have moved with me from apartment to apartment, city, rural, and suburban homes. They have snuggled me when I was sad, cuddled under the covers on cold nights, made me laugh and coo. I have many a funny story about them and gosh darnit I love them to pieces. I knew the fiansor was a keeper when he immediately took a liking to my cats.

I adopted them from the same vet clinic in Boston about a year apart. Sadie was the runt of her litter, a little spit-fire cat who I found pushing her bigger brothers and sisters out of the way so she could get to the food. The first night I got her home, I was up all night barfing my brains out with food poisoning. So, I was awake to hear her first purr in my presence, the loudest purr I've ever heard! I wondered how such a monster purr could come out of such a little kitten! She has continued to keep me company, she is the biggest snuggler (she demands snuggles and won't take no for an answer), the biggest pig (she'll try to swipe your food) and the biggest love bug around. She's the only cat in the house who brings us presents nearly every day. Since she's an indoor cat and can't deliver them in the form of prey (mouse guts), she delivers them in the form of large cat toys (the biggest ones are usually her favorites) such as grey mousey, which is worn like a well-loved teddy bear complete with holes and stuffing coming out. And despite being the oldest, she still has as much spunk as the youngest cat and is his playmate. She can usually be found in the coziest spot possible, preferably on both the fiansor and I at the same time or doing a beached whale impression on the floor.

Emma is my little baby. She is the second oldest, but I still think of her as the baby. She looks a bit like an owl with her over-sized round eyes and she squeaks like a mouse in greeting. When I saw Emma she was alone, her brothers and sisters had been purchased and gosh darnit, I couldn't resist her, she was the most adorable thing ever. She's been a sweetheart from the start. I carried her home in my arms on the subway and despite standing up in a crowded subway train, she managed to fall fast asleep against my chest. She made fast friends with Sadie and they can often be found as one big ball of snuggled tiger fur.  Emma looks and acts like a princess, but she's the most fearsome hunter and the only one I've seen actually catch a mouse. She's a mommy's girl and runs to me when the youngest chases her and likes to sleep in the same spot every night near my head. She has big, big paws with an extra claw and she uses them like hands to pick things up. She loves all things salty and used to eat popcorn right from the bowl. I can't really let her eat people food though because she has a sensitive tummy and will barf it up. The fiansor says she's not the brightest cookie because one of her favorit things to do is sit and stare at one of our small surround sound speakers for long periods of time.

Can you tell I love them? I could go on and on. Sustenance for me is many things, good food, my family, the fiansor, art-making, trees, water, the starry sky, my bathrobe, warm bubble baths, etc...and up there on the list of things that sustain me would definitely be my gorgeous kitties.

It is impossible to keep a straight face in the presence of one or more kittens.  ~Cynthia E. Varnado

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.  ~Dereke Bruce

There are few things in life more heartwarming than to be welcomed by a cat.  ~Tay Hohoff

If cats could talk, they wouldn't.  ~Nan Porter

There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.  ~Albert Schweitzer

A catless writer is almost inconceivable.  It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.  ~Barbara Holland

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much. ~Mark Twain

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.  ~Ellen Perry Berkeley

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.  ~Pam Brown

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.  ~William Ralph Inge

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning.  He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. ~Helen Powers

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult.  It's not.  Mine had me trained in two days.  ~Bill Dana

A cat pours his body on the floor like water.  ~William Lyon Phelps

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.  ~Joseph Wood Krutch

 

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