I need my own space and have a limited tolerance for human company … Might I actually be a moggy?
Mon 11 Nov 2024 12.00 CEThe only time I have ever mentioned my bird-lover’s slight – slight! – ambivalence towards cats in a public forum, it brought me the angriest virtual postbag of my career, so I hesitate to even mention them again. Cats are great! I feed my neighbours’ cat! My niece is a cat! with a French veterinary psychiatrist in the New York Times.
“Covid was hard for cats,” he said. “Cats, the first day they would say: ‘Wow, interesting.’ The second day, they say: ‘OK.’ The third day, they say: ‘When are you going back to work? I’d like my space, please.’” People getting all up in their space is hardly new for cats, of course. There’s a lovely old Irish poem Pangur Bán that is basically a procrastinating monk sitting around in the ninth century, admiring his cat. “How happy we are, Alone together, scholar and cat,” WH Auden’s version of the text goes, but I bet the cat was thinking: “Christ, are youOh, I relate, hard.
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