When I accidentally scrolled across a photo of a highland cat in my WeChat Moments, my heart was instantly struck. Its cute appearance was just like a little prince in a fairy tale, making it irresistible to me. It was already midnight at that time. Afraid of being preempted by others, I hurriedly sent a message to ask about the price. Actually, I didn’t have a particularly clear plan to raise a cat before that, but at that moment, fate came so miraculously.
After bringing it home, it was very timid at first. Its small body huddled in the corner, and its cute appearance could simply melt one’s heart. My friends, seeing how meticulously I took care of it, all smiled and said they could imagine how I would be when I had a child in the future. In order to make this little guy live comfortably, I studied hard online about how to take care of a cat. When I saw that other cats on Douyin had cat scratching boards, cat climbing frames, and small fish toys, I immediately bought them for it, thinking that my “son” should not envy others. As a result, there are toys for it everywhere in the house, and soon it got used to the new environment and began to show its lively side.
Who would have thought that as it grew up slowly, everything changed. The originally well – behaved cat gradually revealed its naughty nature. It is full of energy every day, as if it has endless energy. The sofa has become its “claw – training ground”, with scratch marks all over it; the bed has also not been spared. It often jumps around wantonly on it, making the bed sheets a mess; what’s more annoying is that it will jump onto the table during meals and try to snatch food. In order to correct these behaviors of it, I tried every means.
I consulted my friend who raised a Persian cat, tried spraying it with water, hoping to make it afraid and correct its behavior; I also gently knocked its head, trying to make it understand that this was wrong; I even talked to it as if I were communicating with a person, but all these efforts had little effect. If I disciplined it a little more severely, it would run away cursing first, and then hide in the dark. As soon as I appeared, it would rush out and bite my leg, or jump onto me from the bed. At first, its teeth were not very sharp, just gently nibbling, but when it was about four or five months old, its claws became sharp and its teeth were also very sharp. It bit without any sense of proportion, and I was even bitten and had to get five shots of rabies vaccine.
I read online that cats might behave like this because they have too much energy and want to play with their owners. As long as their energy is exhausted, it will be okay. So, every day I would play with it with a cat teaser until it was so tired that it was out of breath and fell asleep in a place. But unexpectedly, as soon as it woke up, it regained its vitality and continued to pounce on people to play. When my friends came to my house and saw it like this, they all said they were afraid of it. What’s more exasperating is that sometimes it would show a contemptuous expression towards me, as if to say that I couldn’t do anything about it. Now, I have to be careful to protect myself every day when I get home. Looking at those cute and obedient kittens on the App, I am full of envy in my heart. I can’t help but ask myself why my cat is so fierce. However, it doesn’t only have the naughty side. When it is tired from playing, it will obediently come to me and act coquettishly, rubbing against me. At that moment, it turns back into that cute little thing. But once it has rested and wants to play, it starts a new round of “attacks” again. I often wonder if only my cat is like this. It is like a little trouble that makes people love and hate at the same time. Although it has brought a lot of troubles, it has also unknowingly become an indispensable part of my life. Those days of outwitting it are also full of special fun. I know that in the future days, there will be more stories about it, and I will continue to accompany it, grow together, and face these “growing pains” together.
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