It’s raining cats and dogs around our house.
If you want to live in a world where strange sounds emanate from parts of your house that you’re sure are unoccupied, here’s how to do it: Get a cat.
I’ve become accustomed to things crashing in the middle of the night. Our house is small, so this can be a loud auditory experience. Until recently, I would leap up, alarmed, and grab a lamp to smash into the head of a potential burglar. Just kidding. Actually I would leap up, alarmed, and go into my son Cheetah Boy’s room and makeNowadays, however, I just think, “The stupid cat just broke something again,” and I turn over and go back to sleep.
We got Cairo from the pound about a month ago, because I’ve been yearning to have another cat for years. He had been owned by an older woman who died, and her daughter surrendered him to the shelter because she’s allergic, we were told. So he was never on the street at all, and had a loving home until the end. That’s probably why the vet told us that he’s the healthiest cat for his age he’d ever seen.
I’m giving lots of extra love to the dog, because he’s used to affection and in fact has explained to me numerous times that he’s a “companion dog” and therefore he’s doing his job by sitting on my lap. I don’t want to exacerbate the skirmishes by allowing him to feel neglected.
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