My tabby cat is very intelligent (1)
Seeing that everyone says that tabby cats are fierce and naughty, I suddenly feel that although my cat is also like this, it is “controllable” in comparison. The rest should be “nature is hard to change”.
Tabby cats are really smart. I don’t know if it has something to do with the fact that they are selected by nature, but it does feel that they are more intelligent than purebred cats.
My tabby cat should be 6 years old this year, at most 7 years old. At the beginning, my mother saw a vendor selling kittens when she was hiking to the temple at the end of 2014. My mother is very good at choosing animals based on appearance. She didn’t choose any of the kittens at that time.
Only one kitten kept clinging to my mother when it saw her. Specifically, it followed her and was the only one among all the cats to run in front of her to rub against her, etc. to attract her attention. People around my mother, including my mother-in-law, advised her not to choose this cat because this was the only kitten in the litter born by the same mother cat that looked listless and sick. But my mother finally followed her heart and felt that she had a connection with him, so she chose him.
Then I took him home to see a veterinarian and found out that he was born with anemia and malnutrition. My mother was stunned at the time. It was the first time she heard that animals could be like this. So in the end, my mother spent a lot of money to save his life, even though he only cost 10 yuan. In the past few years, I have spent a lot of money on him on and off, all related to health. Maybe he knew that my mother was the one who could save him. But I bought him because my family had a rat infestation, and since I had him, there has been no such problem.
Until now, he has experienced many life-and-death moments. The most thrilling one was that he had feline infectious peritonitis. I know that at this point, everyone may say that since he has feline infectious peritonitis, there should be no chance of survival, right? Yes! We thought so at the time. Regardless of the information on the Internet, the doctor’s diagnosis, or the degree of his own symptoms, we were all desperate for a time. During that period, the family was always in a low pressure.
After I returned to Italy for school, I also cried. In the later period, he was as thin as skin and bones and couldn’t eat. Although my mother still used a spoon to force him to eat all kinds of medicines and foods prescribed by doctors, the doctor said that he could only leave it to fate. He had already been given IV drips. But he was getting thinner day by day, and his eyes started to become cloudy and ulcerated. He seemed to be “enlightened” during that period.
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