Monday, May 30, 2016

Cats (pets): What are some of the craziest things you've seen a cat do?

I once had a cat (actually a tomcat) that must have been a dog in its previous life. It was a black tonkinese, looking approximately like this one:

The name was Jojo von Schattenbachtaal. Jo-jo for friends and family.

This cat grew much slower than normal stray cats i'm used to. Even its adult size was barely 2/3rd of the normal european cat. First somewhat unusual thing one would notice about this cat was that it was extremely talkative. As in 'does this cat ever stop talking and what is it that it wants to say?'. Second was that it used every opportunity to sit on my shoulder. Imagine cooking with a cat on your shoulder? Yeah.

Now, the really funny part was that the cat would follow us around like a dog. I took it out for a walk very often, just outside the house.

This meant: walk out the appartement, take elevator, walk through a a shopping mall full of people, cross a small pedestrian bridge and walk down the stairs to be on the danube river. There, I would usually sit down on the grass, and the cat would excercise going up and down the tree. Did I mention that Donau area is the favorite place for people to walk their kids and dogs? This never seemed to bother him much.

When we took this cat to the vet, I would stay outside to watch it go up and down the tree, and my wife would wait inside. The vet was pretty much puzzled, as in 'and how will you make it climb down now?'. The answer was surprisingly simple: whistle and the cat comes running...

At that time we also had a small child and a bike trailer like this one:

Needless to say: the moment we took the trailer out, the cat was in it. And so, the cat went with us for bycicle tours, picnics in the nature and so on.

Is this crazy? Not for a dog. But for a cat?



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