I ’m go to go ahead and use of my personal quota ( 1 ) of cat posts . First off , this post is much indebted to Higgins ' classicborrowed cat post . second , I ’m not a cat person . Cats are far too human , i.e. moody , for me to pursue them in increase to human companions . khat sense this about me , and thus we put up each other ; perhaps occasionally ( some stormy night after a glass too many of Chambord ) , you ’ll find us curled up on the lounge together : me shamed , insomniac , the cat much roll its center . So that ’s my deal with cats .
That enunciate , last spring my roommate and I offered to take in , for a brief though unspecified amount of fourth dimension , the very personable cat of some friends who were moving cross - country . It ’s not that we never heard from them again , exactly , but countenance ’s just say they were veritably reabsorb into the happy , protean world of pre - cat - possession .
I see them once , months later , in their new city , and when I broached the " so um when are you extend to be pick up your cat ? " question , one of them went silent and begin strumming his guitar , and the other hyperventilated through go - back tears . We just need what ’s best for … [redacted ] . They wanted what ’s best for the cat .
He tolerates and even baby most efforts to absorb him in folly , but what he loves most of all is a good combat session with a NAIL FILE . Yes , a nail file . The bigger the easily . He greets nail register the mode humans greet a skillful rich IRS repayment . He can not get enough of the affair – he’d at once like to be filed by it , demolish it , make dearest to it , devour it , and in any other direction experience & exploit its essence . So that ’s my cat Wiley Post . And now , ineluctably , I ’m conk out to ask you fine people : is he deranged ? is he peculiar ? was he a nail technician in a preceding life ? Do your cats shun all the respectable toys of the manufactured - just - for - cats world and ghost over human vanity tool ? ( And alternately , you know , have hoi polloi ever left you – as in , really left you – with their pet ? )
