{"id":1420,"date":"2016-08-04T05:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1420"},"modified":"2016-08-04T05:11:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:11:15","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-cats-who-visit-from-the-other-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1420","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013Cats Who Visit From the Other Side"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week, we talked about cloning as an option to enjoy your pet longer\u2014well, an option for those with lots of money to spare. Today, I\u2019d like to share some thoughts about another phenomenon\u2014one not backed up by science (that I know of).<\/p>\n

Have you ever invited a cat into your home, only to notice that he or she has similar traits to a former cat? Sure, cats are cats, and they certainly share catlike traits. But until Lily, I\u2019d never had a cat come into my life with so many rather unusual traits similar to cats we\u2019d known and loved before.<\/p>\n

Lily came to us not too long after we\u2019d lost Katy, a wonderful Himalayan at 18 years and Winfield, a handsome white odd-eye cat who developed an incurable cancer when he was 14. I was thrilled to welcome the tiny snippet of a tabby into our lives\u2014so different from Katy and Winfield. Or was she?<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for us to notice Lily displaying habits similar to those of both Katy and\"lily-001\" Winfield. To this day, she likes to sit touching me with a paw, or lay across my foot, or up against my leg like Katy did. She tucks me into bed at night. Like Katy did every day of her life. She waits for me to head toward the bedroom, then follows me around as I do my evening ritual and jumps up into bed with me. Once I\u2019m settled, Like Katy did, she might leave and hang out someplace else for a while before coming to bed for the night. Lily also came to us with another of Katy’s traits. She’ll sit and stare into my eyes for the longest time, as if she\u2019s looking into my soul.<\/p>\n

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And she is a little Winfield-like, as well. She loves water. It is because of Winfield that we switched to heavy pottery water bowls. He liked to play in the water and was always spilling it. Like Winfield, she doesn\u2019t mind getting wet and boy does she like drinking water\u2014almost as if it were an obsession. And here\u2019s another similarity to Winfield. I can pick up Lily and move her without disturbing her. Winfield was like that. Where most cats will leap out of your arms or at least squirm so you have to change your grip when you lift them, Lily (like Winfield) will stay in her comfy position as I use both hands to carefully lift her to move her off my lap or from one chair to another, for example.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s uncanny how similar Lily is in some ways to Katy and Winfield. It\u2019s as if she is a reincarnation of both cats. However, she isn\u2019t Katy or Winfield. She has also come with many of her own quirks and idiosyncrasies, which have endeared her to us in very special ways. Although she came bringing wonderful memories of the two cats we\u2019d recently lost, she is definitely her own cat and for that we are most grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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