My cats are the best listeners!
IT'S SO QUIET IN HERE.
Having my children grown up and out on their own makes for some quiet times! My girls use to always be my audience when I needed their opinions and wanted to read back my books or other writing to them.
Toulouse
ALL I HEAR IS PURRING.
However, I still have a selective audience---my three cats! They will sit around on my bed and listen intently as I read to them, acting like kids during a bedtime story!
Toulouse and Gus
Gus and Toulouse, our Maine Coons, stretch out at the bottom of the bed, as Calee, our almost 20-year-old, sits by my side glaring up at me with her big green eyes. Sparkee was our other cat that would curl up next to me. She was 18 and the dearest little thing who would always sit there with her legs crossed like quite the lady. I miss her. All our cats we've had over the decades were rescue kitties. :)!
So, why not treat them like children? --- They are absolutely part of the fam!
Toulouse and Gus
Toulouse and Gus
Sparkee
Calee and Sparkee
Sparkee and Calee
LOVE IS INSPIRATION.
Inspiration often comes from loved ones and animals. Their influence on us is captured in our hearts and released in all kinds of thoughts and wonderful stories.
Do you read to your cats, dogs or other animals? Do you read to your children? Reading grows our mind and enhances our intellect. Writing brings out our creativity and feeds on our experiences.
We can write to our heart's content here for all the world to read!
Although I am not able to read this to you, thank you for taking it upon yourself to enjoy!
Erin :)!
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Anyway, you got me talking about kitties! They are just so hard to resist! I usually have two on or near me at a time. I am glad you have kitties to love you and listen to you too Erin!
Calee, the small black Calico, (20 years old this September) is the one that I give the capsules to that I bought from you.
They love sitting in the windows getting fresh air and on their window perch, now that the weather is nice again! My babies!
I have thousands of cat photos on my phone! (I think more than my daughters!)
Yes, we sure do love our kitties! That is so cute. None of mine would go near a drip!
I miss reading to my kids, the youngest is 17 and she loves to read. She is more excited to receive a gift card from Barnes and Noble than anything else.
Which is rare with today's youth, a lot of them would rather have money, cloths or games. Not her, give her a good book and she's happy. Which is a good thing.
Great post Erin, Have an awesome day!
My cat, Sparkee passed a year ago at age 18 also. We have both given our cats and children lots of love and directed them sweetly through life. --- Something to truly be proud of!
After it's posted she loves to read the comments!!
She loves feeling like a creator plus she will be going to a fine arts school next year.
Tried and True
Elaine
To have birds answer me intelligently or ask "are you cold?" If I said Brrrr or say" I love you mom", and laugh when I laughed and knew when I wasn't feeling well and softly ask "you ok?" and always with a cheery,"good morning mom" and a "goodnight sleepy with angels" and even knew to sing "Halleluliah" with wings up in the air and head bobbing and swaying from one foot to the other is a beautiful sight indeed. They would call the cats by name and the silly cats would come to the cage awaiting some prize only to get a cheery "hello" and a giggle as if to say fooled you again,lol. If the dog happened to bark Ptree (the female) would ask the dog "you want a scratch or "needed to go out" or "are you thirsty" "are you hungry" , then call out "mom dog" is truly an amazing experience like non other!
Sadly they died one after the other and a piece of my heart died with them as Ptree and Yoshi were my feathered babies that listened to me sing off key, or read my morning devotion and even give me a WooHoo if I let out a Yaaay to the smallest of things like getting a jar lid to pop and open...lol. I dearly miss my feathered support team ;(
Suzanne
