happylife

I am a cat

"I am a cat" is the title of a Japanese very famous novel written by Soseki Natsume one hundred years ago. It is a story describing the students' daily life from the point of a cat's view. It is so popular that most Japanese know the starting part of the novel, "I am a cat. I don't have my name yet. I have no idea about where I was born. I just remember it was a dark place." The author's face is printed on the 1,000 yen bill. Anyway, I sometimes think about a cat's view. What are they usually thinking about and how are they thinking about their owner? Lots of owners regard them as their family member, however, most cats don't seem to be thinking in the same way. They are always selfish and on their own pace; they play, eat and sleep whenever they like to do so and ignore their keeper's face different from dogs. This is my friends' cat and he was put in the cage to be carried, in accordance with my friends' moving. You can see how he hates his present situation. His face was full of hatred and he was crying for a long time even after released in the new place. He might look poor, though I think he is the happiest cat as far as I know; he can play in the nature field and sleep in a warm house with enough meal. He is like a nobleman as his owners call him.

A mounted police officer

When I was walking around Downtown yesterday, I came across a mounted police officer on a side street near Davie. We can often see them around Stanley Park or when some events are held in Downtown, but it's rare to see them on a back street on a weekday. The officer was a young lady who rode her horse extremely slowly. Every one on the street, including me, was stopping and watching what she was doing. Suddenly, she or her horse turned back and started walking back to the main street. We noticed that she was just practicing horse riding. The footsteps of her horse were so easygoing and peaceful that we couldn't help smiling at her. What a difference from overbearing police cars!

To play with Ikura

Ikura means a salmon roe in Japanese. The red point this cat is grazing at is not of course an Ikura but a light from a laser pointer. The keepers just called it Ikura and enjoyed it with their cats. Most cats love to chase this red Ikura and it is very funny to see them. If we draw a circle, they keep running after it until their heads get spinning. If we draw a vertical line on the wall, they stand on their two legs to reach the red point. I don't know any other toys which attract cats so much. I found that they are not tricked by this toy because they looked at me demanding more lights when I turned off the light. Cats are smarter than I had estimated.

To keep a cat

Many of my friends have a cat in their home. I like to play with a cat when I visit them, but I have no intention to keep one of them by myself. Actually my apartment prohibits any pets, but it is not the main reason. If I wanted to do it, I will do anything to do it. I doubt whether they really deserve all kinds of my efforts to keep them. Once I had it, I would have to feed them every day, clean the room more often, pay a lot of medical costs without insurance and they wouldn't work for me at all. Plus, they would limit my life a lot; I can't travel for a long time, I can't live in my favorite room if it has no-pet conditions. All I can get from them is healing. Is it a so precious thing? Some one might say, a cat is a family, but I can't understand the feeling. I think a cat is a cat and not more than that. They might want to love human before doting on the pet.