Furry friend lovers
Today, I am feeling a little bit tender, not physically, but emotionally. The cause? The loss of a dear friend, feline, not human.
Now, there will be those who say, ‘get over it, it’s only a cat,’ and maybe they are right, but I don’t think so.
As humans, we are all born with the ability to love and hate. What we choose to do is up to us. For many of us, we choose to love unconditionally, whether that love is for a fellow human or another species sharing this planet with us.
When it comes to animals, we all have our favourites; for some it’s cats, and for others, dogs, quite a few like scaly things or creepy crawlies. It doesn’t really matter, it shows we have compassion, an empathy for another living creature. I worry when a person has no time for animals at all. That is a person who I will shy away from. They lack something very basic in their make-up.
The cat in question came from a rescue centre in Scotland. I first saw her at a place near Glasgow, then, because she had not been adopted from there, she was moved to another, closer to where I lived. I felt this was fate.
Within minutes of her coming home, she attacked me. Not the sort aggression you get from a frightened animal, but an all-out hatred. Over the next two years, she continued to hate me with a passion. I suspect she had been mistreated by a man and she didn’t trust any male of the species homo sapiens.
It took a lot of time and patience to win her over, but win her over I did. She would come to me at night, loving, purring and rubbing her head against mine. She showed me that animals can love as equally as any human, and she had come to realise the love I had given her was unconditional.
My love will always be for animals and humanity alike and I will never understand man’s cruelty, be that with a fellow human or another inhabitant of planet Earth. Perhaps the ones who care not for their fellow man chose the path of hatred for all things living and perhaps that is why I don’t trust them one bit.
Nisha 20??-2017
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