—We were seperated one time when I left her with my cousin for 6 months (business venture to Chicago) and for 3 hours she sat with her back to show her dissaproval with my abandoning her (even though I talked to her on the phone just about every night I was away). You’re lucky to have had someone home to spend those last minutes with your ‘owner’, this entire household is gone between 6am & 6pm and I dread the thought of coming home to my companion…

—I hope I can find this place again when she does slip away. Most people don’t think that men are supposed to like cats (with my allergies and asthma what’s not to like ). Besides, they’re just not supposed to stick around that long and you can’t help but become attached after just 1 year, let alone 14. The only reason I can think they have/did was because they had found something they couldn’t find anywhere else… communication. {ENABLE STORYMODE - CYCLE=0 - FONT=SHORT}

…I’m pretty good of a story-teller, but understand, it has been well over 20 years since I have read the story and I couldn’t tell you what the Titel of the book was. Basically, it was a compilation of myths and legends about cats and contained a chinese legend of where the cat originated from. It goes something* like this:

—The cat was a powerful warrior, intelligent beyond any other creature in the universes, cocky, quick and easily frustrated as well as entertained. The cat was a traveler of space and one day on a long journey, it became bored. Having the ability to “ooze” through objects, it began to step through items inside the ship. Through the flight seat, the control panel, through the wall between sleeping quarters and the control room. Quickly running out of challenges, this became boring to the cat, so it sought other activities.

—All the while the cat was trying to pass time, in its mind stuck the one thing it was determined to do. The thought ringed through its mind from the time it started the ‘oozing’ game.

—”I bet I could walk right through that wall if I wanted to” (looking at the exterior wall).

—So, finally, it did. Stepped right through the exterior wall of the ship and out into space, where it floated until it was pulled in by the Earth’s gravity.

—Cat lives here with us now, trying to pass the time. Waiting for others to come retrieve it from this foreign world and take it back to it’s home. Fed up with failed attempts to try and communicate with teh lesser species (us), it lays around and waits.

—Ours obviously could communicate with us. Mine tells me so much and some of it is so serious I just can’t imagine, but I sympathise with her. 18 yrs old and sometimes she can’t see well enough to get up on the couch, but when she misses, she acts like she was just planning on bouncing off the couch and running around the room.

—Check out , this story, which I found while tsearching for the title of the book which contained the legend I pretty much destroyed telling you.

—Take care and maybe see ya `round here again.

-Thomas

Think I’ll go give Rocky a cuddle.