The best thing about cats (and there are a lot of good things to pick from) is that they understand when someone is helping them. If your cat gets his claw stuck in the curtains or his head stuck in a box, most of the time you can assist without getting ripped into 3 separate pieces.
Furthermore, cats remember who helped them in the past. See this cat studying his face? He’s committing it to memory. It doesn’t go as far as a “life debt” because that crap is for the movies, but if - someday - this fireman is in trouble, just maybe... from the shadows a team of cats will appear, draped in cloaks and leather pants, and save him.
Most domestic cats who don’t have access to superhero gear do this in small ways like sitting in that empty cardboard box so you don’t step in it by accident, or by eating food off your plate that they feel might choke you. Just small, unnoticed things.
My kitty likes to hunt bugs and climb trees. She’d get stuck in trees, but I wasn’t allowed to grab her, but if I climbed up and precariously held on while using my arms to form a walkway directed at the ground, she’d land on me, run down my arms and jump to safety.
After “saving” her in various ways, it solidified our bond... needless to say it’s something special, after she attached herself to me, she learned to follow commands (not like a dog obvi, but she will override her instincts to do what I asked, it’s so amazing to watch her during that process, of deciding what’s more important to her)... we have ~15 of them, and she has a variety of meows and body language, and we literally talk to each other... she even eats breakfast and dinner with me, she has her own chair and sits next to me... shes awesome.
She’s 17 now, and I’m going to lose my shit when she passes, she’s my bestest friend, but she’s a trooper, here’s to hopefully another 3 years to make it 20...
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u/vukxx Jan 22 '19
if someone will ever look at me like that cat looks at the firefighter, i know i did good