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Stephen Brivati 講師のコラム

A Beloved Pet (Maybe)

今週のテーマ: 私の愛するペットについて

2021年8月17日 | 1 コメント

The world is basically divided into ‘cat-people’ and ‘dog-people.’ I am a cat lover. If we look on youtube it seems that most of the videos are about cats with dogs coming in second.(Just my opinion) 

Since I was a child my family has owned cats. They have all been interesting and memorable in their own funny little ways, but the most interesting was my last cat. I say last cat because now that I am living in an apartment I am not allowed to have a pet. Anyway, my last cat was called Po. He was a very interesting character. To tell the truth, I don’t think he liked me very much. But he was dearly beloved by almost all the people in the neighbourhood that we lived in. Actually, that was a really old, traditional neighborhood consisting of only eight houses. Po was always very fat because he travelled around these houses getting three meals every day. At that time I was living in a very old house that did not have air-conditioning. You can imagine that it got extremely hot in summer which Po hated. So, in the heat of summer, Po would go around early in the morning to the nearest house in the neighbourhood which had good air-conditioning and knock on the door. Then he would spend all day sleeping at that house. As you can see from this one example he had absolutely zero interest in me. Po liked to fight. He would fight anything including other cats that infringed on his territory, birds such as crows and the baby boars that occasionally wandered down around the area my house was situated him. As a result of all this fighting he was often injured and that really defined my relationship with him. Basically I was just the person who took him to the vet to get his injuries treated, especially as he got older.

However, for some strange reason, I still miss him even though he has passed on and been living in cat paradise for the last four year

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