如果有前世的话，那我大概可能会是一只猫。因为不论在什么国家和地方，我一直可以用猫的语言和他们对话。虽然我不知道自己在说什么，但猫咪们肯定明白我在说什么，因为他们听到后，除了很少几只外，都会一边儿回答一边儿走过来使劲儿蹭蹭我的腿表示友好。我觉得那很少的几只应该是特聪明的猫，明白在说猫话的人并不一定懂猫话。
下面是从美坛转来我写过的一个英文帖子，比较详细地介绍了我家健康愉快帅气大花猫Maowi的故事，和不在意读英文也喜欢猫咪的朋友们分享。谢谢阅读。
躲着“避难箱”里的帅猫哥Maowi
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Prelude
I must have been a cat in one of my previous lives, if there is any ;-). I can talk to cats in the sounds of cat language without knowing the meaning. But the cats must know and like what I am saying since they always respond to me repeatedly and are friendly. My family (actually my brother) in Beijing used to have an outdoor cat when we were young, and the cat kept following me around all the time when I was at home, and once even showed up on the 2nd floor balcony of my friend's apartment about 1km away, when I visited her there.
Maowi the 3H - Healthy, Happy and Handsome - Gentleboy
In March of 2011, my son took 3 month old Maowi, alone and abandoned, off the street outside his dormitory and took him to the local SPCA, fixed him and formally adopted him, despite my protest remotely. Two months later, we met Maowi when my son came home for (grad) school summer break. When we picked them up at the airport, my son dropped Maowi onto my lap without warning. This dearest little thing, he just looked at me with his big and bright eyes, then sat on my lap, not moving much and not even making a sound. I was instantly melted by him.
About two months later, my son went back to school and decided to take Maowi with him. At 4am that morning, I got up and took Maowi to his litter box so he wouldn't be bothered by his business on the planes (note I don't force him to do his business often, but when I do, with good reasons, he always does it for me, still the same today). After he finished, I bent down and started to cry, he raised up and kissed my nose, as saying "don't worry Mom''.
In Dec 2011, we decided to buy a condo for our two "sons", especially for the hairy one as he is an indoor cat and needs space for running. It was at the very bottom of the housing market there, and we bought a foreclosure but nice 2bed 1.5bath condo for a very good price. You can call it luck, but I am 100% sure it was all Maowi's doing.
Note we did use the condo ourselves as the vacation base for 3 winters and enjoyed it very much. There is also a funny story wrt Maowi: we couldn't find our annual US park pass in the first winter when we were down there, and were wondering if or not to buy a new one. But the very next day, when we came back from a shopping trip, the pass was sitting right on the middle of the carpet in our bedroom. I asked my son, he had no idea why and how as he didn't goto the room at all. So only possibility was that Maowi must have heard our disucssion and found the pass for us.
Next summer, my son's study and research work got intense, plus he loves high altitude climbing (extreme and very dangerous to my taste), and often needed to be away for days, so he bought Maowi back to us. Maowi became a US and Canada dual citizen.
We have been keeping Maowi indoor/deck for two main reasons: to prevent his killing and prevent him being killed. But he did try to sneak out and was successful a few times. The very first time when he ran away one evening, after being home for just a few days, I was really worried and couldn't sleep. Sure enough he was back at 2AM, with some fish scales on his body and smelling very fishy. For the next two days, he just ate and slept (and did business) without saying a word. So it must have been a very frightening experience for him. BTW, Maowi is a very logical and stubborn cat, when he runs away, he always comes back to the same door where he sneaked out and waits for hours, before looking around for another entrance.
Maowi loves to play with squirrels and birds, as it doesn't matter how gentle he is, he is still a cat with a killer instinct. He will imitate bird sounds every time when he sees a bird outside the window, regardless if the bird can hear him or not. One time, he killed a small bird on our deck and took it to the deck door to show me. I screamed loud automatically without thinking, and it must have scared Maowi to death, as he refused to eat any food for two or three days afterwards. Poor bird and poor Maowi, and very silly me.
ps. Photos of young Maowi and the condo we bought for two "sons" are in my 今年1月放在房/地坛 的《远程买房记》中文帖子，see link below
I must have been a cat in one of my previous lives, if there is any ;-). I can talk to cats in the sounds of cat language without knowing the meaning. But the cats must know and like what I am saying since they always respond to me repeatedly and are friendly. My family (actually my brother) in Beijing used to have an outdoor cat when we were young, and the cat kept following me around all the time when I was at home, and once even showed up on the 2nd floor balcony of my friend's apartment about 1km away, when I visited her there.
Maowi the 3H - Healthy, Happy and Handsome - Gentleboy
In March of 2011, my son took 3 month old Maowi, alone and abandoned, off the street outside his dormitory and took him to the local SPCA, fixed him and formally adopted him, despite my protest remotely. Two months later, we met Maowi when my son came home for (grad) school summer break. When we picked them up at the airport, my son dropped Maowi onto my lap without warning. This dearest little thing, he just looked at me with his big and bright eyes, then sat on my lap, not moving much and not even making a sound. I was instantly melted by him.
About two months later, my son went back to school and decided to take Maowi with him. At 4am that morning, I got up and took Maowi to his litter box so he wouldn't be bothered by his business on the planes (note I don't force him to do his business often, but when I do, with good reasons, he always does it for me, still the same today). After he finished, I bent down and started to cry, he raised up and kissed my nose, as saying "don't worry Mom''.
In Dec 2011, we decided to buy a condo for our two "sons", especially for the hairy one as he is an indoor cat and needs space for running. It was at the very bottom of the housing market there, and we bought a foreclosure but nice 2bed 1.5bath condo for a very good price. You can call it luck, but I am 100% sure it was all Maowi's doing.
Note we did use the condo ourselves as the vacation base for 3 winters and enjoyed it very much. There is also a funny story wrt Maowi: we couldn't find our annual US park pass in the first winter when we were down there, and were wondering if or not to buy a new one. But the very next day, when we came back from a shopping trip, the pass was sitting right on the middle of the carpet in our bedroom. I asked my son, he had no idea why and how as he didn't goto the room at all. So only possibility was that Maowi must have heard our disucssion and found the pass for us.
Next summer, my son's study and research work got intense, plus he loves high altitude climbing (extreme and very dangerous to my taste), and often needed to be away for days, so he bought Maowi back to us. Maowi became a US and Canada dual citizen.
We have been keeping Maowi indoor/deck for two main reasons: to prevent his killing and prevent him being killed. But he did try to sneak out and was successful a few times. The very first time when he ran away one evening, after being home for just a few days, I was really worried and couldn't sleep. Sure enough he was back at 2AM, with some fish scales on his body and smelling very fishy. For the next two days, he just ate and slept (and did business) without saying a word. So it must have been a very frightening experience for him. BTW, Maowi is a very logical and stubborn cat, when he runs away, he always comes back to the same door where he sneaked out and waits for hours, before looking around for another entrance.
Maowi loves to play with squirrels and birds, as it doesn't matter how gentle he is, he is still a cat with a killer instinct. He will imitate bird sounds every time when he sees a bird outside the window, regardless if the bird can hear him or not. One time, he killed a small bird on our deck and took it to the deck door to show me. I screamed loud automatically without thinking, and it must have scared Maowi to death, as he refused to eat any food for two or three days afterwards. Poor bird and poor Maowi, and very silly me.
ps. Photos of young Maowi and the condo we bought for two "sons" are in my 今年1月放在房/地坛 的《远程买房记》中文帖子，see link below
