Jax in the Box
That cat did not come back the very next day. In fact, Jax went out and has been away since Saturday.
While we assure my sister that her beloved feline goddess (right) will reappear in her own time, it is painful to worry about a lost pet.
We are afforded the luxury of treating our pets like children rather than assets or sources of income. They are family members who never get kicked out of the nest. I don’t even mind when my cat, Mooshka (below) sleeps by my head and slaps me in the face, oops, I mean, caresses my face with her tail.
The sublime book & movie, The Golden Compass, depict humans with daemons (animal familiars) who are attached to us & feel our pain – not quite like Pres. Clinton but you get the idea. When I first saw the movie (then read the book) I said, this is how life should be – everyone has an animal attached at all times.
Many animal experts and psychics, (you know I’ve got to mention them – check out intuitive Danielle MacKinnon in Portsmouth, NH,
http://www.daniellemackinnon.com/radio.html) talk about pets as buffers to pain & illness. Our animals, they say, are on the front lines of their owners’ emotions, absorbing stress, fear, love, etc.
Mooshka stops to smell the tulips.
Some animal experts suggest that our pets may even take on illnesses in defense of their humans. On Hayhouse Radio – the best self-empowerment source in the world – www.hayhouseradio.com – an animal expert referred to pets as “our emotional wastebaskets.” While not the most majestic moniker, it does help us look at our pets as reflections of ourselves and our emotional & physical health.
While dining at the home of friends, I sat with their bird, Pedro, on my shoulder. He was an excellent and attentive date until he started squawking whenever I spoke excitedly. I wasn’t mad, meerly enthusiastic, which registered with Pedro even when I whispered!
Stay tuned for more comments on our extraordinary relationships w/animals, including N’kisi the psychic parrot – http://www.sciencenewsblog.com/cgi-bin/snblog.pl?snblog=121051
and dogs that have been trained to wake diabetics whose blood sugar drops while they sleep.
Until then, we’ll be hoping for Jax’s safe return home.
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