Sunday, 12 January 2014

The sometimes cat…

I’ve lost count how many times I’ve stepped over the sometimes cat, only to realise that he or she wasn’t there.

The sometimes cat – it seems to take on the form of the last cat in the house. It used to be black until Tia came along. I kept seeing Tia long after she was dead - but never that black cat again.

The black cat must have been the previous sometimes cat. I’ve no idea when he or she lived in our house; it stood empty for three years before I even moved in. There were other cats briefly between the black cat and Tia, but I never saw them. I don’t think that they stayed long enough for the sometimes cat to absorb their cattiness.

After Tia, a champagne blue Burmese, Misty was grey and Luna is white. I’ve seen them all at one time or another, even though they weren’t there.

The sometimes cat can hardly be a shadow. Who’s ever heard of a grey shadow asleep by the bathroom door, or a dead Burmese sitting at the top of the stairs watching? I’ve almost tripped over Luna, our current cat, half a dozen times only to see her across the half-landing looking across at me - or if not me then watching something else.

The sometimes cat, a bit of a mystery. But, just because it isn’t there, doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

10 comments:

  1. Vicky Sutcliffe on FB
    We have a sometimes dog..... Sasha... Lotty....daisy.....rebel......

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    1. Andrew Height
      It's not as unusual as many people might think. Friendly familiars often stay around long after they've stopped breathing.

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  2. Maggie Patzuk on FB
    They are always with us!

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  3. Vicky Brickhill on FB
    We have a sometimes cat and dog. Tom sees them the most. Normally on the landing, just out of the corner of his eye.

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  4. Sharon Taylor on FB
    weird because today I heard a miaow and when I looked my cat was not in the house but down the garden, the ghosts of pusscats past x

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  5. Sharon Hutt on FB
    I had a dog that became a sometimes dog. Out of the corner of my eye I would often see him in his favourite spot at the top of the stairs. My parents moved from the house when he lived a few years ago, and I often wonder if the new inhabitants ever see something in the corner of their eye that isn't really there.

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  6. Andrew Height
    It's usually the corner of my eye too, although a couple of times its been in full view. i once saw Tia run through a door. A closed door.

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  7. Sharon Hutt on FB
    I think I posted a while ago that a black dog bounded through my hedge and I had to jump back so as not to be knocked over. Except there was no black dog.

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  8. Tricia Kitt on FB
    I have a sometimes cat too...

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  9. Sarah Farmer on FB
    What's he trying to tell you I wonder?

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