Klarinet Archive - Posting 000053.txt from 1999/11

From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Cats <g>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 21:44:39 -0500

> Jim,
> One thing about cats, they never grow up - they are already more
> mature than
> any of us stupid humans. On the other hand, your chat noir's trick sounds
> suspiciously like what my 3 year old daughter likes to do with our toilet
> paper. And she likes the clarinet also!
> Patty Smith

Cats are naturally empathic and they can't hide their feelings. I got the
first of my two cats some months before I picked up the screech-stick again
(sorry, Shadow!), and at first she expressed her dismay by hiding under
furniture or running into the next room. As I got slightly better at tone
production, she came out of hiding and sat there listening, or at worst
ignoring me. This horror act began again when I brought home the HUGE
screech-stick last February; and again, she no longer reacts.

The second cat has only been here a few months, so he's been spared the
worst of it.

On a more serious note...Pushkin, the older cat (she is now 6), the orange
one you will see on my website, is a great people-cat, the kind that is more
and more being brought into hospices as a companion for the aging or
terminally ill. During the winter of 1997, as my throttling-up divorce was
taking its financial and emotional toll on me, I'd come home in a hideous
mood, get vaguely drunk, and collapse in a chair in front of the computer
(where I'm sitting now). Pushkin would trot over and jump into my lap,
insist on being petted because somehow that "dumb" animal knew that stroking
her was good for both of us. They can "read" pain and they know how to
provide a special kind of therapy.

Yes, like 2-year-olds who never grow up, they understand things
instinctively.

They also make unerring music critics:-).

Ken
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Kenneth Wolman "From The Meadowlands" -
http://www.rio-cardoner.com
"When you stop falling, you will be in Heaven. When you stop getting up,
you will
be in Hell." -- Michael Torkington

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