StarCat wrote:Watch out for people that have a hatred for Cats. If you are a cat person and run into these types, its a black flag coming up that almost certainly involves the distant past as well as hyperdimensional confluences. Cats are magnificant spirit beings that do far more for mankind than he might imagine.
Have to agree with you about this one. In fact, I never really thought about that until you mentioned it here. Then I realized - my dad hates cats. I no longer have a relationship with him, for many reasons, but I realized that yeah, here's a guy who supposedly likes critters, but hates cats. I grew up in a semi-rural area of Connecticut which means there was a lot of exposure to critters of all types, and he was the sort of guy that went out of his way to rescue turtles that were plodding across busy roadways, baby possums whose mothers were hit by cars. We had a dog and he liked our dog. But there was a strange inconsistency when it came to cats. Hated them, and would have nothing to do with our pet cats growing up. Referred to them as "rodents." And of course, he knows cats aren't rodents, but it was to show his disdain for them. Yet when it came to actual rodents he had no predjudice - squirrels, bunnies, mice, etc. Yet he'd derogatorily refer to cats as rodents. It made absolutely no sense to me at the time as a kid, but now in looking back at it all, with what I know now about him, (MAJOR neg entity attachments going on, not all 'there" upstairs as a result of mucho tampering by who knows what, etc. and so on) it's quite fitting.
Anyway. Now I'm just feeling like "whew! I'm glad I'm away from him and have THAT out of my life!" o_0 At the end of my book that I wrote I get a little bit into what it was like in my family growing up; most of what went on is left out though, in fact probably about 90% of it. Some of which includes the subject of our pets. I just felt like I wasn't up to writing about it, but the treatment of our pets - specifically the cats and the way they were (unconsciously?) targetted by my parents - is the only thing that's left in life that haunts me to this day, because there's nothing I could do about any of it since I was a kid. Even now to this day I still have dreams about our pets from when I was a kid. BUT, I'll leave off with a happy tale of waking up this morning to my cute kitty crawling all over me, nudging me and purring, like "wake up! wake up!" Then finding one of my necklaces on the floor next to the bed and batting it and flinging it around the way a kitten would, even though she's not a kitten. I love when she does her "kitten flinging" thing.
It was all very cute and a nice way to wake up. It's hard to want to get up in the morning and go to work when she's crawling on me and cuddling up. I'd rather just hide under the covers from the world and snuggle with her.
"Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy shit ... what a ride!" - Anonymous
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