Thursday, February 21, 2008

The Essence of Being Feline

What does it mean to be a cat?


I ask myself this all the time. It's a difficult question. Many people define cats by what they are not:

Cats don't fetch.
Cats aren't loyal.
Cats aren't happy.

And I guess some people say that cats are:

Independent
Aloof
Evil

I am Cameo and I just am. I can fetch (especially when Kogepan runs away). I can be loyal. I can also be aloof. And I can be evil. In fact, the other night, I kept knocking over the trashcan at 3 in the morning. And why? Because I felt like it! And when I got kicked out of the bedroom, I showed my dissatisfaction by scratching under the door all night. See, cats cannot be defined essentially. Every cat is as unique from every other cat as the group of cats is from dogs or people or birds. And that's why I love being Cameo.