Saturday, February 08, 2025

Lessons for humans. 2. Avoid self pity.


 Humans don't deal with personal disasters as well as we cats do. We cats don't waste time feeling sorry for ourselves. We learn to have fun, even if we have major problems.

Take Tanni, for instance. She was only a kitten when she lost a front leg in a car accident. You might think that she would become some sort of invalid.

Not Tanni. Within 24 hours she was leaping around and playing with cat toys, determined to have fun again. She even chased a bit of fluff on the veterinary floor when she came to after the amputation. No languishing around in the cat bed. 

Later when she went to her forever home, she showed her humans how she could climb up trees with only three legs and catch mice with only a single paw. Anything that a cat with four legs could do, she did with only three.

Lessons for humans. Make sure you have fun, even if you have the bad luck to be disabled.

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