NaturallyResilient

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I am devoting Wednesdays to stories of animals and in my case most of them will be cat stories as cats have been a staple in my life for a number of years. I love dogs, had a great one when I was growing up, but cats are easier to keep. You can leave them with plenty of food and water and litter and go off for the weekend. A dog would eat all the food, knock over the water bowl and cry because their pack has left and all that within the first 2 hours of you leaving.

The hard part is deciding what story to tell first. Well here goes.

I had a very large black and white cat named Barney. This cat was an 18 pounder in his own right. He was not fat, just big. Barney loved people. He was a dog in cat clothing. He had to go greet all that came to the door.

At one point we were living at the back of 68 acres we had purchased. In the process of subdividing this property we were having a road put in. One day one of the workers came to the house to use our phone. This phone was located on a desk right next to the four-foot tall cat scratch post. As the worker sat down to make his call, Barney came in to see who was here. As this contractor was talking, Barney jumped to the top of the cat scratch post right in this man’s face. There was a loud scream. I could just imagine the person on the other end asking, “what’s wrong, what happened”. Then this worker haltingly said “They have a cat as big as a bobcat”. Barney was unperturbed with the screaming man and followed him to the door when he left.