When my dad was a child, his family also raised a tabby cat

When my dad was a child, his family also raised a tabby cat. It was very smart and well-behaved. My dad said that when he was a child, his family also raised a tabby cat. It was very smart and well-behaved. Usually, it was fed with some leftovers and cold rice or even pot water, and it ate happily.

Later, the family was in trouble, and even people starved to death. It couldn’t afford to keep it, so it thought of sending it away.

The first time, my grandfather took it to a village 30 miles away and released it. It ran back three days later. It was covered in dust and jumped onto the water tank when it entered the door, and drank half a bucket of water.

The second time, my grandfather put it in a cloth bag and took the production team’s car to the town more than 70 miles away to release it. Half a month later, it limped and appeared at the door of my grandfather’s house again.

My grandmother felt very distressed, but there was no way. Because of the lack of food, the people at home were swollen, so she continued to find a way to send the cat away.

One day, a man came to the door of the house. He came from another place and carried a load.

My grandma asked him if he wanted a cat. We had a cat at home but we couldn’t afford it. If

he wanted one, we could give it to him for free, as long as he treated the cat well. The man hesitated a little and said

that the cat would come back even if he took it away. My grandma took out a flour bag, put the cat in it, and then swung the bag by the mouth, turning it dozens of times, and put it on the man’s shoulder pole. At the end, she said, “Mimi, don’t come back this time, just save your life.”

After that, the cat never came back.

A unified reply to the different voices in the comment area.

1. This story is true. I heard it from my father’s oral account and told it several times at home. 2. It

was really difficult at that time. The one who starved to death was my father’s youngest cousin, who was 4 years old at the time.

3. The tabby cats raised in rural areas do not rely entirely on self-predation, although they have strong survival ability in the wild. In the past, rural areas generally used a separate bowl as a cat food bowl. Some were placed under the kang cabinet, and some were placed in the corner of the room. The food in it was basically leftovers. In the special era, not only was food scarce, but mice and sparrows were also rare, and it was difficult to hunt them in the wild.

4. Why did the family go to great lengths to send a cat? In the eyes of the older generation of country people, cats, dogs, cows, donkeys, etc. are important means of production, and are important helpers in rural life. There is a kind of pity from the heart. In my hometown, excessive use of livestock will be cricketed behind the neighbors. When my father was young, he was ignorant. Once he used willow branches to beat the oxen hard, and he was hung on the beams by my grandfather and beaten.

Therefore, properly resettling the meritorious officials in the family during difficult times is a basic benevolence and righteousness in the eyes of the elderly, which is a simple emotion. In addition, in my hometown in the early years, there was a saying that “people who eat cat meat cannot cross the Naihe Bridge after death”, so at that time, farmers would peel tree bark, eat soil, and even look for corn kernels in livestock feces, but rarely eat cat meat. I don’t know how many years this tradition has been passed down.

As far as I can remember, my family and the surrounding neighbors basically have cats and dogs, but I have never heard of eating cat meat together. Whether a cat loses its life due to illness or accident, the general treatment is to dig a pit and bury it directly. It can be said that if someone eats cat meat together, in the eyes of the locals, they will think that this person is not only at the end of his rope, but also not up to standard, has no bottom line, and will be looked down upon. This is very different from the customs and cultures of other regions.

5. Put the cat in a flour bag. I don’t know if this is stuffy, because after all, I am not a cat, but it certainly has no effect on the cat’s health. In the past, when sending cats out in my hometown, people would do this for fear that the cats would remember the way, and the cats would be lively and jumping when they arrived. The physical fitness of the tabby cat can be seen.