Life in the Fast Lane: Two Tom Cats Strike it Lucky!

Author: Sondra Burchfield ISBN (softcover) ISBN (eBook) 36 pages This book is a humorous account of a retired couple.
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So we started leaving out leftovers.

I adopted a stray cat. I had no idea what I was letting myself in for

Was the cat watching us, waiting in a hiding place somewhere for its bowl to be replenished? It certainly felt that way. Then, on a supermarket shopping trip, we took a decisive step and bought a pack of cat food. Did this make us pet owners? Of a cat that never came within 20 metres of us? Of an animal that — for all we knew — could also be getting fed and watered by half a dozen other people?

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Over the following four weeks, the process continued, until we were permitted to approach as close as two metres. At this distance, and after scores more bowls of cat food and leftovers, we started to feel a little proprietorial.


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Should we name it? How could we name it without knowing its sex? Why does sex even matter when naming a cat?

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Should we get it sterilised? Did we even have that right? If an impartial observer had been around to witness what followed, we might have been taken in for questioning. For the next five days, from our usual exclusion range of between two and five metres, my wife and I would follow the cat around, exhorting it to lift its tail and give us a peek at its genitals.

They looked different every day. We could have saved ourselves a lot of up-tail action. The internet also revealed a lot more about cat care in the 21st century.

I grew up in a house with three cats, and I recall mainly purring, mewing, cuddles and the odd scratch. My mother may have been doing all the worming, delousing and general maintenance while I was asleep, but somehow I doubt it. The cats just got on with life. See all free Kindle reading apps.

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