The Way of Cats

No one wants to be known as “The Crazy Cat Person.” Personally, I prefer the term “Cat Appreciator.”

Apparently, the rest of the world thinks one cat is okay. Stray comes by, brother moves to Prague; you know, these things happen. One cat implies that the person didn’t do it on purpose. But two cats… that sounds more deliberate. That bears watching.

More than two cats? It’s over. We are Officially Crazy.

I don’t know how Cat Appreciators got mixed up in the public mind with Crazy Cat Persons. We both feed cats, but any resemblance ends there. Cat Appreciators take their cats to the vet, and play with them, and love them, and don’t have more than we can do that for. Crazy Cat Persons don’t do that, and go waaaaay into the double digits, or beyond, into numbers that cannot be properly cared for. They are, in fact, victims of serious mental disorders.

Cat Appreciators have discovered, somewhere along the way, that cats are actually amenable to our wishes, highly companionable, and extraordinarily affectionate. Along with being both amusing and much smarter than the rest of the world realizes.

Cat Appreciators know that we might have this many anyway. But of lot of us have so many because the rest of the world has so few.

Which is a shame. If only more people knew what we knew… they’d be Cat Appreciators, too. Cats can be friendly, but the deepest parts of their hearts are available only to those who understand and treasure them. We know, despite what an often indifferent world might think, that cats are very special.

And that some people just don’t know what they are missing.

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