What goes through the minds of cats? Tom and Cheryl's house guests, Hunter and Berkely, are challenging the social framework of the roost. Dusty and Pepper do not seem to like Hunter. They hiss at him, but he just ignores them and goes where he wants. I wonder, do cats have fantasy like thoughts? Dusty will track Hunter all over the house. Does Hunter turn and communicate the message: "You stay the hell away from me, ya hear?"
The Alpha cat is the cat that automatically seeks the highest spot in the house, and demands to be fed first. Butter used to have that "top cat" title. Here we see that he would like to go up the stairs, but Hunter is perched at the top. Dusty, Butter's bud, waits patiently below.
When you have younger cats in a house with older cats, as the other cats grow and mature, their own alpha tendencies come into play. Gradually they challenge the alpha attempting to take over. The Alpha cat will engage any other cat that challenges, even kittens. Kittens learn early from the mom cat and litter mates how to wrestle and roll together, rabbit -kicking each other as instinct kicks into gear and the survival mode engages.
You should never step in between two cats that are fighting. They are not focused on you. "DAH"!
As I said in my previous post Each thought there was one cat too many, Berkely is a "Mellow Yellow". I honestly don't know if she is a she. But I wonder if Berkely is composing a ballad in her head. A gun fight in the O.K. Corral type tune. Now I am not anticipating anything like the 30-second showdown that left three cowboys dead, Virgil and Morgan Earp wounded. But I imagine Berkely thinking of Hunter as her hero, the "tall stranger" of the West:
- The eyes of the tall stranger narrowed
- He grinned like the devil possessed
- "I never fight till the sun's going down
- And my back is facing the West"
Butter is Dusty's hero, and Butter isn't looking like a "tall stranger". Butter is looking a little slow on the draw. Is Dusty composing more of a dirge in her head, a sad song of woe?
- There was a gunfight out in the moonlight
- To settle the matters at hand
- So pick me up stranger,
- pick me up softly
- I don't know the shape that I'm in
If I find the singing minstrels, I may have to put them on retainer. I got something cooking I may be able to pitchl to Disney/Pixar, the heck with YouTube!
I've planted my first few seeds of lettuce. I know we will have a few last blows of winter, but I am looking forward to the days when I won't have to scrounge through rubble to find nature's colors.
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