My Cat Just Demonstrated an Interesting Facility of His Memory

When it comes to an animal's cognitive ability, and even my Cat's, call me a skeptic. Not because I doubt. Maybe because I underestimate. But, most simply because I don't Know. The Cat is a smart The Cat, and I know this better than anyone else in the world. That established, I still don't understand some of his choices; and, as an philosophical human being (depending on how many I've had), I don't even know when he has choices. Or If he has choices. As evidence to the contrary, he is choosey about when he does and doesn't want to sit on the bottom shelf of the fridge, often to obnoxious ends; Let's accept that he makes willful choices.

Which brings me around to my original intention. He has a lot of quirks, and currently the most pertinent is his affinity for plastic. Wrap, bags, packaging: If it's clear plastic, he loves it. Verano and I entertain ourselves with theories. The top one is that if he eats enough of the stuff, the clear plastic, he believes he will also become invisible. This is very useful when you are a Russian Spy, like he is. Otherwise it's adorable, and that's currently the capacity his quirk seems to serve in.

Lately, I've been keeping a mouthguard in it's original plastic wrap in one of our milk crates in the bathroom. When I go into the bathroom he comes with me, and investigates the very plastic wrap. He leaves it alone when the house is empty: It's only when somebody is in the bathroom that he's all right with inspecting it.

This afternoon I put it up, because I fear that he's going to chew on it one afternoon when the house is empty and choke while neither Verano nor I can do anything about it. That didn't stop him from checking out the action when I got home tonight. Only thing is, it wasn't where it usually is.

Seeing a cat confused about something that should be, is a cute thing indeed. It can make your night.

Conclusion: Right now he is in his chair, and things are largely as they should be. He is smiling. Verano is in Los Angeles, which is off, but he understands why. He's very comfortable in his chair. That, above all else, makes things okay.

Get a cat and make it happy.