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Historical May 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
How do you train a cat? You don’t—the cat will train you in the niceties of being a cat-housekeeper. Cats are fastidious.
They take readily to litter boxes.
However, if these are not regularly cleaned, the cat will make truly appalling messes on your $1,200 couch to remind you. Cats like schedules. You may get up at 6:30 Monday to Friday, stumble toward cereal and juice, and feed kitty. You may think that allows you to sleep in on Saturday or Sunday.
Oh, No…Kitty is there prancy—dancing on your recumbent carcass at 6:30 A.M.! (So you groggily get the Kitty-Bits.) But also—you drive up home, a multitude of motors buzzing by; you can’t tell one from the other.
But they know: “Hello, Dad! Glad you’re here.
We came to meet you!” “Supper?” Self serving opportunists…you think.
Until you settle to read, and one comes to knead your lap and make a warm book-rest.
And then you learn what love is—a really cold night, with spouse and plethora of cats, all piled on one bed together, some kneading, some snoring, all huggling.
And you learn: You don’t train cats You don’t train husbands or wives. Cats are like family.
They see you for what you are: providers of food, warmth, cleanliness.
No wonder we are scared of cats!
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, May 1990.
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