Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 06, 2015

That’s the name of my calendar: “What Cats Teach Us.”

You can’t ever actually own a cat. You can feed it two or three times a day … and it might tolerate you. But you can’t own a cat.

The dog looks around the house, thinks, “the Master feeds me, pets me, gives me a warm place to sleep, takes me for walks… he must be some kind of a god!”

The cat looks around the house, thinks, “the Staff feeds me, pets me (when I let them), gives me a warm place to sleep, plays with me (when I let them)… I must be some kind of a god!”

It’s true, you don’t actually own a cat….You partner with them, and yes, as equals…They do eliminate rodents from the area….They’re fun to play with and show affection in their own way….My two sister cats grew up in a field for a while. They always go to bathroom out doors….I never have to clean the kitty litter even in the dead of winter…….

As is our Charlie Brown (orange tabby) as he is diabetic and when he is hungry in the morning, you know it, although he always waits for one of us to stir. Lucy, the other orange tabby is a sweetie and the poster kitty for attention deficit hyperactive kitty disorder. Overall, they bring a lot of love and joy to our lives (we don’t have a Linus because both of them have the personality trait of their Peanut’s counterparts, and a friend had a wonderful Linus a while back and we just couldn’t take his name).

And yet no one has picked up on “Sensei”? = Mollie

<————- My Hoover agrees. He KNOWS ……… everything.

That would be fun—set up a maze of empty boxes and watch the cats bound back and forth.