NaturallyResilient

About

One day my husband and I went to a crafts fair on the square in Georgetown Texas where we lived. The local animal shelter was there and we fell for a sweet Siamese that they had named Lily. We decided to take her home and soon renamed her L.C. which stands for Loud Cat or Lousy Cat or Lazy Cat or whatever for the mood we were in.

Being a Siamese she was a talker, almost constantly vocalizing. I was on the phone once with a vet friend and L.C. was talking away in the background. My friend asked what was wrong with the cat as she could hear her constant yowling. I told her that was L.C. our Siamese and she being a vet understood. Siamese can be very talkative.

We had another cat, Barney, whom L.C. fell in love with right away. L.C. was a light weight, probable the smallest cat I have ever raised. She weighed in at about 7 pounds where Barney was the biggest cat I ever had and came in at 18 pounds and that was all bone and muscle not fat. This was a Mutt and Jeff relationship.

Barney was a big brother to L.C. Barney would be asleep in a corner and L.C. would come in and curl up on top of him and fall asleep! Barney would wake up and look at me like “what do I do now?” L.C. loved following Barney and our other cat Daneel around, yowling the whole time. I could just imagine her saying; “what are you doing? Where are you going? Can I help?” I am surprised that the other two never tried running her off when they went hunting and she came along. I know that her constant chatter alerted any prey to their whereabouts.

L.C. knew how to work Barney. I never quit understood the dynamics going on between Barney and Daneel until L.C. entered the picture. Daneel loved to be petted. He would get ecstatic and besides himself when being petted and Barney would come over and whack him. It was like Barney was saying “Get a grip on yourself”. Well L.C. loved to be petted too and would get all excited and ecstatic also but she did something Daneel didn’t, every once in a while she would jump up and run over to Barney and lick him on the head a few times then run back for more petting. Barney never came and whacked her like he did to Daneel. That was when I decided it was a jealousy thing with Barney; he did not like being ignored!

Cats and other pets are funny creatures that can give a lot of insight to our own human nature.