What does it mean “30 Years of observation”?
My lovely wife, Leebee, and I have been cat friends for almost 40 years total. Thirty years ago I became tied to a wheelchair and that’s when my observations of our four indoor cats began. I began to notice their individual peculiarities, but also their similarities, in the way they interacted with the variables in their environment. I was fascinated by how such different personalities could be so instinctively the same.
For example: While playing with the same bungee style toy. one of my guys would jump and pounce, the other would lie down and swat. Both would spend hours playing with that toy and always the same way. The instinctive similarity…the desire to hunt and play. The unique dissimilarity…how they did it. Their preference was key. They did it their way. I couldn’t change it no matter what.
Lesson: We, as humans cannot impose our will on them. We need to let them do their thing. We gain their love and devotion if we’d learn this simple fact.
Cater to their instincts (which are pretty much the same) but realize they are unique little creations from God!