{"id":2756,"date":"2015-09-11T23:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=2756"},"modified":"2015-09-11T23:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:00:51","slug":"about-my-crazy-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2015\/09\/about-my-crazy-cat.html","title":{"rendered":"About my crazy cat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

For many years we had a cat, Nicky, who was abandoned by our neighbor at the apartment complex we lived in as newlyweds, when she was evicted. \u00a0We had him declawed (not knowing about any raging debates about the issue), and kept him inside \u2014 except that he loved to escape the house, when we chased after him. \u00a0 We tried various strategies to keep him indoors but were never entirely successful. \u00a0What\u2019s more, when we were in Germany, we were the the odd ones, as cats were let out, as a rule, but, of course, with him being declawed that wasn\u2019t an option even if we had decided to now allow it. \u00a0Then, when we were at the airport on the return flight to the US, we learned that we had failed to prepare the proper paperwork for him to come along with us (information was nowhere to be found online, and there was no apparent way to ask a live person), so he stayed behind and my father-in-law found him a new home.<\/p>\n

When we returned from Germany, my youngest was only two months old, so getting another cat was out of the question. \u00a0When he turned two, we acquired Tiger, and, when he ran out of the house several times not long after we brought him home, we gave up the fight, left his claws on, and decided that he\u2019s an indoor\/outdoor cat. \u00a0When he\u2019s in the house, he loves to sit on laps and be petted, but he\u2019ll run our when the door is opened, and come back later after having who knows what kind of adventures, waiting at the window (or, yes, scratching up the screen) to be let in.<\/p>\n

And even when he\u2019s out of the house, he\u2019s still our cat. \u00a0He\u2019s been known to follow us to the playground a block and a half away, and has waited for us to come out of church a block away. \u00a0My husband has reported that, on at least one occasion, he\u2019s seen Tiger looking through the window during a Boy Scout meeting at church.<\/p>\n

But today? \u00a0Today takes the cake.<\/p>\n

One Friday a month, we participate in a group called CFM, Christian Family Movement; it\u2019s our parish\u2019s equivalent of the Small Faith-sharing Groups that other parishes have, but for couples, and hosted at alternating couples\u2019 homes. \u00a0Tonight, the host couple\u2019s home was 2 1\/2 blocks south of \u00a0us, on the same street, and Tiger seemed to follow us in that direction but then, we thought, stopped at the end of the block.<\/p>\n

But as the meeting was coming to an end, after we\u2019d finished the discussion questions and moved on to socializing, and couples started to leave, someone said, \u201cthere\u2019s a cat on the front walk!\u201d \u00a0The host couple said, \u201cthat\u2019s never happened before!\u201d and \u201che\u2019s been at the back door, too!\u201d \u00a0 And sure, enough, it was Tiger, waiting for us to come home. \u00a0 As soon as we left, he walked ahead of us, and waited, until we arrived home, and we let him in.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s my story for tonight.<\/p>\n

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