On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:59:00 +0100, Mick Finnlay
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Mick.F...@yopmail.com> wrote:
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>She disappeared one day without trace and the whole neighbourhood was
>saddened. There was a suspicion though that she had been abducted by a
>couple that had just gone and moved house. Go figure.
Found one the other day. Noticing a hint of movement through and upon
looking out from the window blinds, I eyed a cat next to the front of
the house where I'd set a chair. Opening the door, the cat took an
immediate interest in listening to me, a total stranger, venture a
neighborly hello. Perhaps a few years old, its healthy appearance in
any event perhaps one younger than older, this particular yellowish
feline had hardly doings, at all, with a usual circuitous reticence
invested in its relative bloodlines among irregularities encountered
by a cast to a cat's morning walks. At the time in the mood for
slices of cheese, I thought to bring a slice to this unannounced
guest, so unassumingly taken to measuring me intently at my doorstep.
A most solicitous eventuality, presumptuously upon my part, whereupon
to see revealed the cat's calculated intent and greater design, in
form hardly to whiff past the proffered cheese in my hand, and assay
sassily past into an immediacy with its head to venture past the
screen door, beckoning a formal invitation to continue and be allowed
to instigate itself furthermost within my humble abode.
A neighborly cat, indeed, I knew then as much. Someone, nearby, had
put a lot of love into this cat for it so fearlessly to step through
an instinctive shyness animals, not even certainly for all pets,
innately possess. And with that respect duly in mind, I felt it would
be a personal transgression to let it presume so much as to place
another paw forwardly, in advance into my home, before shutting the
door in its sweet furry face.
Needless to say, the plaintive mewings upon my doorstep it then
assumed as supplicant to my better nature neither would assuage to
sway an underlying precept, I knew, that, foremost, had brought it to
this stage of evocative kindliness realized, indeed;- that by another,
a nearer owner, being whom likely raised this cat from a kitten
expressly to be so amicably vocal before a resoluteness I had
expressed.