It is a small experiment in creativity, you choose a word, search a free resource site for the image or photograph that results in a list, and then write a short narrative about it.
The word chosen was: Cat
I have hair all over the place.
Well, I'm a mammal that lives on the surface of the Earth, so having fur is very normal, just ... It's not my hair!
These days I have had to take care of a neighbor's #pet, she is quite indifferent to everything, like all the cats I know. There is not much I have to do for him, from the beginning his personality was never very sociable. At least he is not the kind of honeyed #cat that insistently mounts people, nor is he the kind that is aggressive and attacks for no known reason or motive.
It is simply a calm, elegant and very helpful cat, but it does shed fur everywhere. It is not so much as to believe that it is some disease or the symptom of something bad, but I am not used to being covered with other people's hair and even less with someone else's fur that is of another species.
I don't hate pets, but I really don't really know how to take care of them. I am a city man and my contact with nature is limited to visits to botanical parks and the occasional zoo, but since I was a child, I had never been in charge of caring for another living being, be it a plant or an animal.
At home we did not have time for these things or at least that is how I have interpreted it over the years. There might be another reason for not having pets, but I never found out, after all, I'm not allergic and no one at home was.
I learned that I was not allergic during my teenage years, it was from a medical check-up that I had the most comprehensive tests I can remember and one of them was about allergies. It turned out that I am quite resistant and do not suffer from any common allergies.
I will not say that I dislike this cat, at least it is not like others that I have known that it stays with you as if it were some kind of psychopath waiting to attack you. If he is not muted or makes hellish noises all night long.
If I put it in a nutshell, he is good company, but I have a hard time getting used to his loose fur and how my clothes and body seem to have some kind of static electric charge that attracts all his loose hair and sticks to me.
For reasons of taking care of him, the neighbor gave me the key to his apartment and this is where I meet him, it is the best, after all this place is prepared for his life and it is the space that he knows. He surely misses his human, he kept his company and I suspect he doesn't like to lose members of his pack.
I am an acquaintance, so he does not treat me like a stranger, but it is not that he is affectionate. If that distant and haughty cat became honeyed, I would be a little scared and worry about explaining to the neighbor what happened to his cat.
From time to time I take him to my apartment, I keep all the escape routes that I know of closed to avoid accidents, on those occasions it is simply so that I am not alone and it only happens when I have work pending and I cannot spend much time in the apartment from the neighbor, be it preparing her food, changing the water in her dispenser, cleaning her litter box or something else like that.
If you wonder why I am taking so much trouble and some idea of romance with my neighbor comes to mind, then let me clarify that this is not the case. She is a lady old enough to be my grandmother and that is not my type of dream partner.
It may be simply a matter of helping a neighbor, because she insisted on paying me to be the caretaker, but with the mentality that she has of old prices, since the payment is more symbolic than anything else, I did not argue and I did not ask for anything, I just wanted to help and I did.
Now I have a silent and arrogant grazing cat for daily company, not bad, after all, with the recent events several of my neighbors have been admitted to health centers and others, like me, are kept closed and distant for the most part weather.
We are waiting for the whole situation to pass and we can get out again, but we know that things have changed and will never be the way they were before.
Meanwhile, I have a cat for company and I am getting used to his fur, he does not shed so much hair and I think that in the beginning I gave too much importance to that detail.
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