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First, we have a winner. As you can see, Lily chose Pearl Hilden\u2019s entry in the caption contest. She seems to have chosen Pearl’s name paws down. Congratulations Pearl!!!!<\/p>\nFirst, we have a winner. As you can see, Lily chose Pearl Hilden\u2019s entry in the caption contest. She seems to have chosen Pearl’s name paws down. Congratulations Pearl!!!!<\/p>\n
Now to the topic for Tuesday. And oooooh, what a delicious subject it is. After writing yesterday\u2019s post\u2014celebrating cats who have passed\u2014and feeling a little blue afterward, I thought I\u2019d try to rebound with a fascinatingly enchanting topic. How do you feel about visits from your cats who have passed? Do you sense them around you? Have![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/LilyReallyclose-e1530613564449-225x300.jpg\")
you seen any of them\u2014a fleeting or lingering image? It has happened to me and I know I\u2019m not the only one. I\u2019ve talked to friends who describe having visits from a beloved cat who has crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. At the Cat Writers\u2019 Conference last month a group of us sat around discussing some of our experiences of this type.<\/p>\n
I remember, a couple of times, feeling a recently passed cat jump up onto the bed at night when there were no living cats in the house. I\u2019ve felt a cat rub against me, but look down and there is no cat. I see a cat out of the corner of my eye, only to look and realize no one is there.<\/p>\n
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But some of my most intriguing and beguiling \u201cother worldly\u201d experiences come in the form of a living cat. For example, Lily came to us as a tiny kitten and she brought with her some of the traits I loved about my cats who had, by then, passed. Almost immediately, she expressed the same sort of admiration and adoration for me that my beloved Himalayan, Katy, had. She kept me in her sight at all times. When she wasn\u2019t curled up in my lap or snoozing next to my foot as I typed, she was nearby staring at me. \u00a0And she has slept with me every night for all of her eight years.<\/p>\n
She also came to us with some of Dinah\u2019s traits, in that she couldn\u2019t seem to get enough to![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/lilywater-029-225x300.jpg\")
eat\u2014still can\u2019t. We named Dinah for her fascination with food. During her naming process, I one day sang out, \u201cSomeone\u2019s in the kitchen with Dinah\u2026\u201d because you couldn\u2019t go in there without her following after you in hopes of getting a handout.<\/p>\n
And Lily brought with her a fascination for water similar to the fixation with it that Winfield had.<\/p>\n
When it comes to her behavior and personality, she\u2019s a fine blend between the gentle sweetness of Katy and Winfield and the daring and silliness of Dinah.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s also a communicator when she has something important to say. But I think she gets that trait from us humans. We have some deep conversations with our cats around here.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d love to hear your stories of \u201cspirit\u201d cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First, we have a winner. As you can see, Lily chose Pearl Hilden\u2019s entry in the caption contest. She seems to have chosen Pearl’s name paws down. Congratulations Pearl!!!! Now to the topic for Tuesday. And oooooh, what a delicious … Continue reading