— She stretches as she walks. She never stops moving, but her whole body gets long and stretchy, and one leg stretches out in the back, “toes” splayed out, then the other leg.<\/p>\n
— She lies in bed, facing away from me, in a classic passive-aggressive cat pose. When I get up to move or whatever, she looks over her shoulder at me. It’s so adorable.<\/p>\n
— When I start to pet her and she is all relaxed, it is like I can almost see her thinking. “Hmm. I like this. I am feeling comfortable right now. That touch feels really good. I’m not sure how much further I should allow her to go. I am concerned about my dignity. I need to keep a LITTLE bit of myself to myself.” But then she throws caution to the wind, and rolls over on her back, legs spread open, arms up in the air, giving me full access to her belly. It’s hilarious. It never comes right away – she has to talk herself into it.<\/p>\n
— When she greets me at the door. Sometimes she seems to pretend that she’s ‘over’ me, and will start to give herself a random bath at those door-greeting moments, as though to let me know, “I’m not REALLY that happy to see you.” But her purrs tell another story.<\/p>\n
— How she sits at the window, ears alert, staring out at the world. I glance into my main room and see her little hunched-up back at my windowsill and laugh out loud.<\/p>\n
— We are now at the point in our relationship where she drapes herself around my head as I sleep. I wake up smothered in fur.<\/p>\n
I post this today explicitly for the gentleman who was nice enough to email me and tell me it was “stupid” how much I “anthropomorphized” Hope. It “annoys” him.<\/p>\n
You know what’s really stupid, sir? Taking the time to email some woman you don’t know and be a whiny bitch about how she writes about her cat! Or – not even the email part – but to actually waste the emotional energy to be “annoyed” at someone else’s posts about her pet. That’s what’s truly stupid!<\/p>\n
Amazing!<\/p>\n
So of course I need to write posts where I anthropomorphize her even MORE. I’m contrary that way!<\/p>\n
HOPE IS HUMAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
— She stretches as she walks. She never stops moving, but her whole body gets long and stretchy, and one leg stretches out in the back, “toes” splayed out, then the other leg. — She lies in bed, facing away … Continue reading