Recently, I have been reflecting a lot on how absurd it is that we keep animals as pets. I don't mean to say that it is wrong, I am a strong advocate of having pets, and find it confusing when people don't have them. It is rather silly though. Especially as we have deemed certain animals, like dogs and cats, as acceptable to be in the house, and others, like raccoons and snakes, as varmints that should be chased away from the house.
Perhaps this is more telling to me as we have two pet snakes.
We also have three cats, in a rather small house. Not too small, but small enough that when I am home during the day, most of the time, all three cats are in the same room as I am. They spend about 92% of their day sleeping, and when they sleep, it looks like the most comfortable and restful sleep imaginable. On the days when I had multiple papers to work on during the day, I would sit there and see the cats all cozy, without a care in the world, and hate them. Stupid cats.
Most other times, they give me a lot of amusing things to watch. For instance, right now, Schroeder (the one who never makes any noise), has just jumped up on the window perch where Truman (the big one who has a really high meow) is sleeping. Schroeder sat on Truman's head, and hilarity ensued.
It's interesting that we have pets. As I say, I'm very pro-pet, but we end up having these relationships with animals that are very interesting, almost like they are people. I have been alone in the house since 6 this morning, yet I don't feel alone, and I have probably talked out loud in a conversational manner with one or more of the cats at least half a dozen times already.
But maybe I'm weird. We do have three cats and two snakes, after all.
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I love pets too. I think that they keep you sane; if you talked out loud in a conversational manner and you DIDN'T have cats, you'd look crazy. But it's totally normal to personify animals because they have personalities. Hooray for cats! And snakes. Do your snakes have personalities? And do you talk to them too? I bet Adrien does.
ReplyDeleteI do occasionally talk to the snakes, but only when I have them out. They are incredibly light on personality. Basically, when you have them out, they are either sitting still, like you are holding a small hose, or moving, looking for things to wrap around (like the back of chairs). That's when I usually talk to them, but it's only like, "Norton, what are you doing??"
ReplyDeleteI think somewhere I have pictures of you with cats in your pants. It sounds dirty, but it's not. It's just......weird.
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