One of the deepest memories I’ve formed living in this area is the amount of cats and dogs that have been coming to my house. We’ve gotten visited by at least 3-4 cats, and one consistent dog (my neighbour’s). I really enjoyed it, and I think it makes me think a lot about taking care of the animals around me, the environment around me. Literally, because they will jump into all the things that I have.
This is a usual constant scene in our place. The dog that’s closer to me is the one that usually runs over, or opens my gate on her own. She’ll run around, trying to figure out where we are and get her belly rubs, or head pets. After about 5 minutes of this, we’ll walk her back to my neighbour’s and say bye.
This little cat was the one that really broke my heart. I saw it stuck on the ledge, and I was wondering why it was there. I spent the morning trying to call out to it, and trying to get it to come into my house, but it didn’t want to.
Clarice had to get out on the ledge to carry it back home. And it stayed with us for the whole day. But it was at night that we found out that Clarice really could not handle a cat in the room. She had such a bad allergy and we had to put the cat to sleep outside our house. The trouble was that the dog next door would bark at it, and it kept getting scared and jumping back out onto the ledge again.
It stayed with us for all of another day. I’m allergic to dogs, so I’ve never had another animal nuzzle me because of that fear, but the cat nuzzled me and demanded to sleep in my arms. I had no allergies, so it was totally fine for me.
But man, letting the cat go at night, I cried so much. I really felt so bad for letting it just go out into the night, and I couldn’t take care of it.
Right now, we think that the cat was picked up by the neighbors on the first floor. And good for them, because at least they could take care of it without any worries.
We also learnt how to welcome cats into our house, and bring them down to feed them, so that they don’t come back just for food and get in trouble with the dog next door. It’s tough, really tough, but we’re hoping to own our own pets when we move into our new apartment. That’s due to be ready mid year, and we just hope to get a place this year anyway.