Once upon a time I was a bonsai enthusiast. But after a dehumidifier accident killed all my overwintering trees, I decided to start a new gardening hobby, only with rosebushes.
As it turned out, I can learn to constrain living things. But I am temperamentally more suited to encourage them to reach their full potential.
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Bonsai are all about shaping their growth, so they can adjust to their limited boundaries. Roses are all about supporting their growth, so they can produce their biggest, lushest, blooms.
For cats, we must be a rose gardener, not a bonsai gardener.
Why do I consider this so important? Because choosing the wrong nurturing path is a great mistake. It starts off on the wrong foot, and marches straight on into disaster.
The “true cat” is not a measure of what the cat might be now. It’s seeing the potential cat they could be with support and love. It’s letting them relax enough for us to see their best side. It’s us relaxing around them that lets them see our best side.
This is how we become close to our cat.
We must let the cat bloom.
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