{"id":8309,"date":"2008-08-07T23:28:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T03:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8309"},"modified":"2010-07-21T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:47:16","slug":"probably-the-best-thing-about-hanging-out-with-a-cat-on-a-daily-basis-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=8309","title":{"rendered":"Probably the best thing about hanging out with a cat on a daily basis is:"},"content":{"rendered":"

that she is NEVER not being wholly<\/em> herself. Every moment is 100% true. Her annoyance is obvious, when it comes. Her impatience. Her adrenaline. Her laziness. Whoever she is in any given moment, she IS that with every fiber of her soul. There is no pretense. She just IS. She stretches, she rips my Netflix envelopes to shreds, she purrs like a locomotive when I walk in the door, she flips out when I bust out the cans from the cupboard (she now knows what that means), she lies on the windowsill staring out at the world, she has fits of insanity where her own tail occurs to her as a demonic force with a mind of its own, she growls in a low alarming way when she sees a stray cat stroll through our backyard, she glances up at me, as if to say, “is it okay? Is everything okay?”<\/p>\n

Yes, Hope dear, everything is okay.<\/p>\n

Hope was abandoned in a box on the doorstep of the Petco in Union Square. Someone didn’t want to deal with the responsibility of ownership and so they plopped her down on the sidewalk, knowing that Kitty Kind, the adoption agency that runs out of Petco, would deal with her. But the thought of it makes me see red. She sat in that box the entire night, until a Petco employee showed up the next morning to unlock the door. She must have been terrified.<\/p>\n

She appears to be adjusting nicely to a regular life, and she trusts me enough to lie on her back in the middle of my floor, exposing her white belly to me and to all the world, and in that moment – she is wholly being herself as well.<\/p>\n

It’s awesome.<\/p>\n

Welcome home, little furrball.<\/p>\n

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