Usually, one hears that from a toddler. It is usually met with great fanfare on behalf of the parents.<\/p>\n
In this case, it is an occasion for some angst.<\/p>\n
For the last 9 years, we have had a cat. Roscoe P. Coltrain is his name. He had many quirks. So many that we used to say “He’s retarded, but he is ours…”<\/p>\n
One quirk was he likes to drag socks, sweaters, t-shirts, uhh, unmentionables, out of the laundry basket. He liked to drag them into various parts of the house and curl up in them, purrrring <\/strong><\/em>loudly.<\/p>\n Another quirk:<\/p>\n When we first got him, his food and water lived in the bathroom. Whenever someone went into the bathroom, he would run in and eat and PURRRRR <\/em><\/strong>really loudly.<\/p>\n Houses change, things get moved. His food and water are now in the downstairs bathroom, that doesn’t get a lot of use. At least not by humans.<\/p>\n But he still always followed people into the bathroom. It didn’t matter where he was in the house. He would hear you and come trotting in.<\/p>\n He would do it in the middle of the night, middle of the day. It didn’t matter.<\/p>\n When he had been outside, and we let him back in, I would swear he would look at me as if to say “I hope you didn’t go to the bathroom without me…”<\/p>\n He liked to roll around on the rug and have his head rubbed. His purrring <\/strong><\/em>was audible in the bedroom next door on a quiet night.<\/p>\n He and our other cat, Maia, went to a new home yesterday. (It would have been impractical to take them to Cairo).<\/p>\n While we know <\/em>that they are going to a good home, and we know <\/em>that they may not have even survived the quarantine and travel stress and we know <\/em>that this is for the best….<\/p>\n Still.<\/p>\n This morning I went to the bathroom all by myself….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Usually, one hears that from a toddler. It is usually met with great fanfare on behalf of the parents. In this case, it is an occasion for some angst. For the last 9 years, we have had a cat. Roscoe P. Coltrain is his name. He had many quirks. So many that we used to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maudlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cairochronicles.com\/jack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}