Cat love
A few minutes ago I heard weird sounds from Dante’s basket. Sounded like something in between coughing and throwing up. Dante’s basket is on top of my wardrobe, and Brutus was sitting in his box beneath the wardrobe, looking up. I got slightly scared and was just about to climb up to check on him when Dante raised his head, looked around a bit, and then jumped down from the wardrobe and walked out of my room. Brutus ran over to him and started cleaning him. I kept an eye on them for a minute because Dante kept making those noises, but he’s stopped now. I suppose he just got hair in his throat or something. Anyway, the point I wanted to make is that my cats love each other and I really love seeing it. They’re definitely inseparable brothers.
I love Dante and Brutus so much, I don’t know what I’d do without them. Emil says even if he suddenly turned allergic to cats he’d never ask me to get rid of them, because he believes I need them. I believe so too. We got them when I was really depressed a few years ago, because I needed to feel that something or someone needs me. Cats are perfect therapy, I know I’m not the only one who has experience of that.
The discussion about if Emil could ever ask me to get rid of the cats started after he told me the story about the two cats his mother had when she met his father. Emil’s father has been married once before and has two children from that relationship. When he met Emil’s mother his former wife would refuse to let the children visit him if he had cats in the house, because she found cats “dirty”. So to let him see them, Emil’s mother put her cats to sleep. She tried hard to find someone else to take care of them, but she couldn’t. Partly because of this, she never really liked those children. (There are other reasons too, but that’s another story.)
This story makes me so mad. If she’d taken it to court I’m sure she wouldn’t had needed to kill the cats, because it really isn’t reasonable in any way that a father can’t see his children because his new wife has cats. No one was allergic or anything, it was really just that their mother found them “dirty”. I don’t know what more to say about it, but I know that there’s no way Brutus and Dante are getting killed off because of any man. Either you take me and my cats, or you take nothing. I’m really glad that Emil understands that. Not that he has anything against cats, but he knows that no matter what happened I wouldn’t get rid of them for him, and he understands why.