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What do you think your cat dreams about? What would make her happy? Sure, she lives a charmed life. Without you she\u2019d be on the streets, still at the shelter, with someone who wouldn\u2019t appreciate her idiosyncrasies, in a dangerous household, or, heaven forbid, dead by now, right? I\u2019ll bet you just had a choking-up moment thinking about that.<\/p>\n
(This is a picture of my mother’s cat, Smokey, using a patch of alysum as a pillow while he dreams–probably of chasing lizards and mice.)<\/p>\n
Lily, for example, may not have had the opportunity to be diagnosed with kidney disease at![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/october2010-012-240x300.jpg\")
a young age. Who would expect that? And I\u2019m pretty sure that if our team of veterinarians hadn\u2019t caught the illness when they did, she would either be seriously ill by now or worse. As it is, she thrives and she\u2019s adored and safe. (Choking up here.)<\/p>\n
But what does Lily want that she doesn\u2019t have\u2014that is if cats had the capacity to dream or to wish on a falling star or to yearn? Knowing Lily as I do and if she had the capacity, she\u2019d dream of more catnip, more food more often, and, bring on the water\u2014![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/lilysophie-017-225x300.jpg\")
maybe a water fountain in each room. She would also wish for me to always be in the home\u2014never venturing out\u2014just in case she wants something to eat or a lap to curl up in. She would also wish that there is no such thing as thunder. She\u2019s okay with fireworks, but thunder puts her under\u2014the covers that is.<\/p>\n
Our tortie, Sophie, might dream of an hour or a week outside in a grassy field. She often begs for grass. We have trouble explaining to her that we no longer have a lawn\u2014we\u2019re in drought here. We will occasionally bring her a piece of devils grass (weed) that has popped up in the yard and we buy the cats grass in those little boxes sometimes.<\/p>\n
She\u2019d love it if I\u2019d open a nursery in the living room\u2014bring in all kinds of plants for her to ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/gorgebirdbath-225x300.jpg\")
chew on. As it is, I grow African violets in the garden window and she leaves those along\u2014I guess she doesn\u2019t like the fuzzy leaves. I have an indoor orchid and she avoids that (whew!), but the philodendron someone gave me as a gift\u2014oh my, she\u2019s constantly pruning that thing\u2014but never when we\u2019re around. Yeah, she knows the rules, so breaks them when we turn our back.<\/p>\n
Some cats openly yearn to go outside, like Rags in my Klepto Cat Mysteries. Others might wish their humans would remove the furniture coverings so they can dig their claws into the delicious fabric\u2014it feels oh, so good.<\/p>\n
Okay your turn. Go ask your cat what he or she dreams of and let\u2019s tell the world about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What do you think your cat dreams about? What would make her happy? Sure, she lives a charmed life. Without you she\u2019d be on the streets, still at the shelter, with someone who wouldn\u2019t appreciate her idiosyncrasies, in a dangerous … Continue reading