The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100155 Message #2337491
Posted By: Naemanson
11-May-08 - 02:56 AM
Thread Name: Thinking about leaving Guam. Nah, bought a house!
Subject: RE: Thinking about leaving Guam. Nah, bought a hou
I'm back on line! The computer's fixed, we've finished moving into the new house, and we finally got the cable connected. We are in business again.
We really like this house. It's comfortable. The yard is large and that is rare in Guam. We are near the end of a dead end road, just beyond the end of the pavement. There is only one farmer who lives farther down from us. So it is quiet here.
There was a little trouble with the neighbor's dogs barking at us and annoying the cats but my slingshot soon ended that. Now the cats come and go as they please. The dogs spend their time on the other side of the houses. Neko finds endless pleasure in bringing lizards, geckos, and grasshoppers into the house so she can slowly murder them in air conditioned comfort. Wakana refuses to close the door firmly so the cats have found they only need to push on it and it opens for them. Sigh.
Neko is a very strange cat. She talks as she walks. She isn't asking for anything. She doesn't want to be held. There is no shortage of food in her life. She just meows continually... all night long... as she walks on us... when we're trying to sleep. I have thought of inviting the dogs back over for a game of tag with her. Neko doesn't want to sit with us on the couch, won't let us hold her for any length of time, and doesn't do any of the other things a cat likes to do with people. She loves to play with me but she plays too rough for me to risk my flesh and blood. I use a stick.
The Mama on the other hand follows Wakana around like a puppy. She goes out and comes in several times in the morning as we prepare for work but when we leave she insists on being outside for the day. She disappears into the brush and only comes out after the sun has set.
Neko runs in a panic to the door when she sees us getting ready to lock it. Being stuck outside for the day rates very low on her list of priorities.
I told Wakana that the cats treat her like a god. I don't rate with them. The best I can hope for is for them to see me as some kind of emergency backup god. I provide food when she isn't home and I open the doors for them. Other than that I am just in the way.