Cat evolution

[klwilliams]

When Chaz and the boys moved in, almost every morning around five or six Mac would come into the hallway (a space about three feet on a side) right outside our door and sing to us. This was a happy, cheerful warble, it didn't last long, so I didn't fuss at him.

After living here a while, Mac decided that he really liked the way I scritched him. I would let him get up on my computer desk and I would actually rub his chin and forehead, and he loved it. One day in the middle of this I needed him to move, so I picked him up and set him on my lap. I continued to scritch him with one hand while I did something computer-ish with the other. That night after dinner, as Chaz and I sat on the couch watching TV, Mac jumped up and curled up on my lap, so I started scritching him.

This evening (and sometimes morning) practice of Mac getting scritched on my lap has gone on for a while. Then last year, a couple of times close together, I picked Mac up and took him with me across to the clubhouse to talk to Chaz, because (as with toddlers) it was easier to do that than to fight with him to get him to stay inside. Mac loved this. About this time the morning song changed. Instead of a warble it became the song that cats sing when they've caught something, and he'd sing it with a toy mousie in his mouth. When I'd get up, there'd be a mousie in the hallway.

The latest? I've been taking him outside on a harness. He's quite well behaved, and walks around the garden eating Bermuda grass quite politely. When he gets scared (not that he's ever *scared*, mind you) he'll hiss, which means I take him inside. He's been extremely well-behaved lately, and hardly ever even gets near Barry. I also have four toy mousies in the hallway. Last night, though, he left me a chicken leg (which he somehow got out of our trash) and a dead beetle. No song, though. And today he's been lying flat like a tire that's lost it's air. (It's been very hot for three days.) I wonder what kind of melody we'll hear tonight?

Comments

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Mac is grooming you as a companion. Bit by bit. Or warble by warble.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

It's clearly true wuv

[lifeofglamour.livejournal.com]

What kind of melody did you get this morning? Don't leave us hanging!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

None this morning. He sang to me yesterday afternoon when I was in my office (which is also right off the tiny hallway, now filled with four mousies), though. Today he was very insistent that he wanted to go outside, so I took him out to some Bermuda grass and he's now sleeping it off on his special blanket. (Not to confused with his other special blanket, which is on top of his special pillow.)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Oh yes he has you well and truly trained now. This is lovely to read.