{"id":232,"date":"2008-04-28T19:24:49","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T19:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-04-28T19:24:49","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T19:24:49","slug":"morbid-kitty-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/morbid-kitty-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Kitty Appreciation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/ubuntucat.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/the-cat.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ubuntucat.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/04\/the-cat.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"132\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-229\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Our cat probably has at least another decade left in him. He won&#8217;t be dying any time soon. Nevertheless, I keep thinking about what I&#8217;ll miss about him when he dies. I think I&#8217;m trying to cushion the blow as much as possible, because I know I&#8217;ll be absolutely devastated when he goes. <\/p>\n<p> When I was younger and had less sentient pets (hermit crabs, for example), I couldn&#8217;t understand why people were so upset when their dogs or cats died. Well, even though he hasn&#8217;t died yet, I now know why I&#8217;ll be upset when he does finally kick the kitty litter. First of all, we have a relationship. Yes, one can imagine a relationship with one&#8217;s hermit crabs, but really how much affection is shown (Oh, it poked one claw out of the shell today&mdash;that must be an expression of love!)? Secondly, dogs and cats just live longer. Indoor cats can live up to 20 years. That&#8217;s a <i>long<\/i> time to be spending with another being. <\/p>\n<p> Well, it&#8217;s entirely possible my wife and I would eventually get another kitty, but here are some things I think might never be replaced: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He does &#8220;the monkey hug,&#8221; where he&#8217;ll wrap one front paw around my neck when I hold him.\n<li>He lets me clip his nails holding him upside down, and he actually appears to enjoy it, sometimes purring and kneading while I do it.\n<li>He will let out a few meows when I first put him in, but he doesn&#8217;t seem to mind baths (he just walks around the tub while I shampoo him).\n<li>He lets us manhandle him more than any other cat I&#8217;ve ever seen. We can pick him up in pretty much any position, hold him upside down, put his paws over his face to play peek-a-boo. Yes, we are cruel, but in a playful, nice way. Not enough for people to sic the SFSPCA on us.\n<li>He moos. Yup. Like a cow. Sure, he also meows, but most of the time he sounds like a cow mooing.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cat probably has at least another decade left in him. He won&#8217;t be dying any time soon. Nevertheless, I keep thinking about what I&#8217;ll miss about him when he dies. I think I&#8217;m trying to cushion the blow as much as possible, because I know I&#8217;ll be absolutely devastated when he goes. When I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/morbid-kitty-appreciation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Morbid Kitty Appreciation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-cats","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}