The Dragon Li cat at my sister’s mother-in-law’s house gave birth to five kittens. Two were given away, and three were left. It was the first time for this cat to have kittens. Even though two months had passed, it was still nursing the three kittens. My sister’s mother-in-law felt sorry for the mother cat, and moreover, the three kittens were so noisy. One day, she said to her husband, “Hurry up and find a place to send these three away.”
From that day on, the mother cat hid the three kittens, and my sister’s mother-in-law couldn’t find them anywhere. On the weekend, my sister and her two children went back to their hometown. My eldest nephew wanted to play with the kittens, so my sister’s mother-in-law told him the whole story. Amazingly, my nephew downloaded a “human-cat language translator” on his phone and said to the mother cat, “Bring the kittens out quickly.
We want to play with them.” Whether the mother cat understood human language or the translated cat language, it actually brought the three kittens back home! Coincidentally, the family had fried fish, and the two children fed the four cats until they were full. Then the kittens went to nurse from the mother cat again.
The Original Answer
They are very intelligent. Grandma raised a big Dragon Li cat for many years. One day, Grandma was stewing meat at home at noon. The smell was so delicious. The big Dragon Li cat squatted at Grandma’s feet, meowing and patting Grandma’s leg from time to time. Grandma stamped her foot and said, “Go away. I haven’t seen you catch a single mouse, yet you always think about eating meat.” Hearing this, the big Dragon Li cat turned its head, jumped over the threshold, and left.
By the time the meat was cooked, the big Dragon Li cat jumped back over the threshold with a big mouse in its mouth and dropped the dead mouse at Grandma’s feet with a “thud”, and then meowed. Grandma looked down, stared at the big Dragon Li cat in surprise, and exclaimed “Oh my…” Before she could even start praising, the cat gave Grandma a disdainful look and walked away with measured steps.
My family also raised a Dragon Li cat once. It was a small stray cat outside my father’s workplace. My father often fed it. One day after work, as soon as my father pushed his motorcycle out of the workplace gate, the small Dragon Li cat jumped onto my father’s shoulder with a whoosh.
For the more than ten-kilometer journey, it just quietly squatted on my father’s shoulder and followed us home. When my father strolled around the village, it would follow. But while my father walked on the ground, it walked on the rooftops. Whenever my father stopped, it would appear on the nearby wall. After I moved out to live on my own, I always wanted to raise a Dragon Li cat too, but I was always afraid that I wouldn’t take good care of it and let the cat down.
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