Having a cat has taught me a lot

I’m a new shovel officer who has been raising cats for five months, and I haven’t rich experience in raising cats, but I have learned a lot from raising cats. But it’s not about cats …

Let’s start with a story from my childhood.

When I was very young, my parents once went to Shanghai on business, leaving me to live in my grandmother’s house. At that time, there were no smart phones, no videos, and the only way to talk was the yellow landline.

One day, I received a phone call from Shanghai, and I forgot the content of the chat. I even forgot whether my mother asked me if I missed her or my grandparents taught me to say so. I cried and said, I miss my mother.

Like most of the time, this was a trivial moment in my childhood, but it seemed to be of great significance to my parents. Later, my mother told me that I was so sad that I missed her that day. I planned to come back for a few days, but after the phone call, they bought tickets to go home and hurried back.

I never understood it, laughing and teasing. I said, at that time, I said that I missed you less than you thought, and I was quickly attracted by other things. You forgot that when you came back, I didn’t even know my dad, so I hid in your arms and peeked at him.

So I have always regarded this incident as a common memory, just like I kicked stones all the way to school in the third grade of primary school.

This feeling lasted until after the Double Eleven. I installed the camera I just bought. I am happy to say that I can see what my cotton baby is doing at home when I go out later.

It happened that I had something to go out the next day. When I opened the door, Cotton was playing in the cat bag. It didn’t seem to care about my leaving, so I turned on the camera when I closed the door. I saw Cotton coming out of the cat bag shortly after I left and going to the toilet after running around for a while.

Everything seems to be normal, and it seems that cotton is as usual when I am not at home. I think so.

After another hour, I thought that the camera has a call function, which can talk with my family through the mobile app. It’s impossible to talk to cotton, but I can call her name and see how she reacts. So I opened the app and turned the camera to find the position of cotton. Maybe the sound of camera rotation was heard by cotton. I saw her get out from under the sofa and stare at the camera.

Then I shouted “cotton ~”

At first, the cotton cried twice in disbelief, and then suddenly rushed to the door and shouted for a long time.

Cotton usually yells, when I shut her out when I go to the toilet in the morning, when she waits for me to make her cat rice at the kitchen door, and when she tells me to shovel after going to the toilet.

But no cry was as loud and persistent as that day, and no cry was more anxious than today. Even her howling at night when she was in heat was not as exaggerated as that day.

I suddenly understood.

I’ve learned that the hairy child who usually hits me or even bites me when she’s surprised and at first glance is really dependent on me. When I get up, she keeps stepping on me and burying her head in my neck, not because she wants to eat, but because she loves me.

I understand why my parents, who finally had the opportunity to go to other provinces, hurried home because of my words, but the feelings that I never understood when I was a child suddenly dawned today. I was like my mother at the other end of the phone when I was in the distance, and my heart had already returned home.

Although I know that everything is in vain, I still say, “Cotton will wait for her mother at home, and her mother will go home to accompany her at night.”

Later, I watched the playback of the monitoring. Cotton sat on the ground for a long time after the call.

I will never use this call function again. I feel distressed and guilty. I am so happy that I don’t want to do it again.

Thank you, cotton, for the trust and dependence from your little cat.

Thank you, mom and dad, for bringing me into this world and teaching me to love and be loved.

They all say, “You never know your parents’ kindness until you raise your children.”

I think it is also known to have a cat.

This is what I learned from raising cats.

I drove very fast home that day.