My cat’s behavior this morning, as per usual, revolved around food. Perhaps all of five times in her life, I have given her her breakfast. This usually when her personal chef is otherwise indisposed and cannot feed her. However, the chance is always awake in her mind that I might give her sup as well. So, since I am the first up in the household, and as I pass through the kitchen (stupidly forgetting to feed her along the way), and as I leave my door open, she likes to spend half an hour with me while I try to write by rubbing my leg and begging me for flesh.
I happily fill her bowl with kibble, but she knows there’s meat in the morning. From her perspective, I’m sure she is a very patient teacher, trying to encourage me in the proper etiquette, and I am sure that her actions have nothing to do with the fact that if I ever do feed her her happy belly chicken, or whatever nonsense is written on the tin, she has always been able to bully her personal chef into giving her a second helping afterwards.
That being said, she was rubbing my leg and I was, now and again, reaching down to scratch her head or back. Then, misjudging the precise angle of reentry, her next pass overshot my calf and she bonked her head against one of the protruding levers which helps me adjust my chair.
It was in sympathy that my hand reached down hoping to comfort her, and I suppose she did draw comfort, and perhaps a little blood, when she proceeded to bite me and run, galloping, out of my room. How exactly she would recount the episode, I am not sure. She is a rather self-conscious creature, prone to easy embarrassment, and I think she was just a little flustered. If she claims I cruelly moved my leg, that is a lie; it was perfectly still. If she says I laughed at her, I reply that I made no sounds other than those of sympathy. If she says that she was hurt and angry and that it was my fault for providing an easy scapegoat, I suppose I can’t argue with that.
At least there are no hard feelings on her part. She has already forgiven me for biting me.
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