A Cat I Know
May. 18th, 2026 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We were looking after a cat last week - as we do from time to time. This commits us to a couple of visits a day, hanging out a bit and making sure the food and water bowls are topped up.
Ruby is a man's cat. She likes her male owner better than her female owner and me more than Ailz.
She is getting louder with age- just as our own Marlowe is. Cats don't talk to one another but work out along the way that humans aren't very good at telepathy and mainly communicate by making noises. It's a pity cats don't have prettier voices. Why can't a cat be more like a bird? I don't mean like a gull, of course; gulls and cats sound very alike; I mean, for instance, a blackbird....
The highlight of Ruby's day in to go out into the enclosed back garden and drink rain water out of a big plant pot......
Ruby is a man's cat. She likes her male owner better than her female owner and me more than Ailz.
She is getting louder with age- just as our own Marlowe is. Cats don't talk to one another but work out along the way that humans aren't very good at telepathy and mainly communicate by making noises. It's a pity cats don't have prettier voices. Why can't a cat be more like a bird? I don't mean like a gull, of course; gulls and cats sound very alike; I mean, for instance, a blackbird....
The highlight of Ruby's day in to go out into the enclosed back garden and drink rain water out of a big plant pot......
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