When I moved to Hawaii in 2012, the last nation of critters I thought would be teaching me anything in the tropics were cats. But they are now and forever, so they probably know a thing or two about being. Or being here. Or being here now. Whatever it is. If all cats everywhere could write one […]
Our kitty pal Elvis has left the building. He passed away a few weeks ago. The other two cats are fine. They learned to adapt to Hawaii. They learned not to slap at wasps and carry centipedes around in their mouths. They probably learned it by watching Elvis foolishly think he could conquer the critters […]
Cats. I’ve written a bit about them in these webpages. About how observing our house cats’ everyday behavior can illuminate something of human behavior, which, if you’re keeping score at home, indicates a global, if not universal, consciousness. Mainly, I’ve concentrated on how Carol’s and my three cat buddies have spontaneously changed their behaviors in […]
When we imagine how we’d react in the face of the unknown, unless we joke around and say we’d piss our pants and run away, we tend to envision a controlled scenario in which we behave normally, whatever that means for us. We imagine how we’d react, oblivious to the possibility that such a moment […]
Animals have amazing poker faces. Well, a lot of them do—the ones whose mouths remain in a steady position no matter their mood. Not monkeys or apes, and not us. But cats? If we were to judge by the look on their face, searching our memory banks for similes, oh, cats would beat us in […]
My immediate family consists of one human and three cats. Of the three cats, Elvis is the most adventurous. Observing the ways in which he adventures is a real lesson from nature. In this essay, let’s take a look at what happens when Elvis decides to sneak out of the house and Oscar, not so […]
Gracie is a small black cat with expressive green eyes. She’s the thinking cat’s cat. She has two huge adopted brothers and because of her size, has always been treated like the alpha panther by humans who want the bigger boys to know not to get too rough with her. When Gracie is hungry she […]
There is a cat in the kitchen and her name is Gracie. When she wants something, she tells us. When we ignore her, she tells us louder. When we ignore that, she either runs around leaping off of furniture like a maniac or if we are sitting on the couch, jumps on the back and […]
We have three house cats: Elvis, Gracie, and Oscar. Of the three, only Elvis loves to play alone. He plays with people and the other cats, too, but the other cats don’t play alone. Watching Elvis play, it is clear that he has imagination. He tosses his stuffed mouse in the air, loses it behind […]