Last year, around April, we picked up a Dragon Li cat. It was so small at that time. On a rainy night, it was meowing pitifully in a corner. My husband and I squatted there patiently, waiting for it to trust us and be willing to follow us before we brought it home.
When it came back, it wasn’t shy at all. After we gave it a bit of milk and a ham sausage, it gobbled them up. We took it to the hospital for an injection, and the doctor said it was in excellent health.
We let it roam freely at home. We didn’t want to keep it in a cage. Once, it ran out by itself for a whole day and night, but came back on the second day. Its nose was skinned, and it must have fought with other cats. Since then, it has never gone out again.
One day when I came back from work, I saw blood spots all over the floor, stools, and coffee table in the house. It took me a long time to find that one of its toes was broken. It looked really painful. The little paw pad seemed to have a layer of skin peeled off. It was like this underneath:
It looked so painful. It was already evening, and I checked that all the nearby pet hospitals were closed. I planned to put a Band – Aid on it, but then I found it couldn’t stick, and it was super funny.
I could only drop a few drops of iodine on it. I thought it would be more settled, but as soon as I let go, it was still jumping from the arm of the sofa directly to the ground and then onto the dining table as before. When its toe hurt, it would shake it a couple of times. I thought it was okay, and later I didn’t go to the pet hospital. Every day, it was as lively as ever, jumping around and vigorously scratching the cat litter. In a few days, it was completely healed.
Moreover, the cat food it usually eats is the very cheap kind sold in the supermarket. Once I bought more expensive cat food, but it didn’t like it. Occasionally, when it stole and ate vegetables from the kitchen, it would have diarrhea. After that, it would continue to eat cat food. Sometimes when I felt it was over – full, I would rub its belly, and now it knows it feels good and lies still on my lap.
It likes to eat roasted peanuts. It would steal and eat the roasted peanuts we bought. It chewed raw meat once and was fine. It wasn’t interested in the cooked fish in the kitchen during the Chinese New Year or the live fish we bought and put in water. It didn’t even smell them. It likes to drink water from the faucet or the water in our cups. It never drinks the water in its own bowl.
It’s extremely timid. When guests came to our home during the Chinese New Year and there were a lot of people, it would huddle behind the bedroom curtain and not come out. Even if the bedroom door was closed, it was still very alert.
To sum up: The Dragon Li cat is as easy to raise as the Chinese rural dog, but it’s also extremely hard on fabric sofas and curtains. The corner of our sofa has been shredded bit by bit. Fortunately, the curtain we bought was linen. After it got snagged, it didn’t look too bad after pulling it a bit (but after it got fat, it didn’t climb on the curtain much anymore).
Well, now I’m going to show off my cat:
Okay, here are a few more pictures. Who can blame me for loving to show off my cat (from a “motherly” heart)?
This is the most normal front – face photo. It feels like it could be used for an ID photo.
I really love seeing it tuck its little paws like this in winter.
Since we don’t restrict it much, during the day, it really likes to burrow into the quilt and sleep. It even snores.
This Chinese New Year, we went out to play for four days, leaving it alone at home. When we came back, on the surface, it still had an expression of dissatisfaction with everything, but actually, it became extremely clingy. It followed me everywhere. At night, it insisted on sleeping on top of the quilt, right between the two of us, pressing down on the quilt. It has gotten so fat that I can’t pull the quilt.
We usually leave a gap in the bedroom door when we sleep at night to let it in or out. But every morning, it will squat not far from the door, watching us. When I sit up, it will slowly walk to the bedside, look up at me, and then meow to “seduce” me into pouring food for it.
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