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Letter: expanding cyber acquaintance with Blue the Cat Sharon Whitehurst I enjoy each opportunity to expand a cyber acquaintance with Blue the Cat. A well fed feline doesn't seem to mind a few encounters with weather which will send me scuttling hastily indoors. Over the decades of sharing our home environs with cats, I've noticed an intriguing behavior pattern re nasty weather. The cat is going to go out! Having sampled the cold/snow/rain, said cat will demand to come back inside and we, the humble servants, hasten to do his bidding. The best chair or the quilt spread over the bed is the place of choice for grooming soggy fur, drying wet and muddy paws. Once warmed, the cat inevitably requests to go outside again. Teetering on the doorstep while cold drafts swirl about the ankles of the attending human, CAT beseeches us to change the weather. Surely we beings who provide food and the comforts of home should have it in our power to raise the temperature, calm the wind and call a halt to falling sleet or snow. We always provide a variety of inviting 'nests' to shelter our outdoor cats from cold and storms. Willis, that grandest of feline overseers, takes full advantage. We are atuned to his desire to have his blanket draped canvas chair turned to catch the rare sunbeams that glance into the half open door of the shed. His food tray is replenished so that should he need a midnight snack there is no need to cross the chilly yard for a nibble from the bowl on the porch. For all our solicitous care it is still not uncommon to open the door on a cold morning and find an assortment of 'barn cats' occupying a snow-dusted bench, whiskers and eyebrows bristling with frost. The indoor cats, pampered darlings, step daintily into the cold, shaking disgruntled paws at the first touch of snow while Willis and Co, wrapped in their 'fur-abouts' look on with the smug aplomb of hardier souls. This story was posted on 2018-12-07 10:43:07
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