@xyzoe
My cat Dusty looked exactly like Laurel. He made it to about 18 years old.
Funny/sad story:
My wife had a paraffin wax machine plugged in on the floor by a table. He stepped on it and either got startled by the other cats or tried to use it as a launching point to get up on the table. We run into the room and the wax had splashed, and the lid was off and our Dusty had a back leg coated in hot wax. There was nothing we could do at that point so we took him to the vet, they shaved the bottom part of his back leg. He had a bit of light burns to his skin, but nothing serious. We felt like bad parents though.
We brought him home and he was so self conscious about his bare leg. He refused to play or engage with the other cats, and just curled up in his bed with his tail perfectly covering his leg. You wouldnât even know it was shaved. But when he had to get up to eat⌠all you could see was a big, fat, round cat with a peg leg. Just like a pirate, I swear. âAhoy, Dusty! Shiver me timbers!â Then heâd meow indignantly. âYe be a scourge of the Seven Seas! Arrrrr!â
His fur eventually grew back and youâd never know. Itâs amazing how complex animal behaviour can be. He definitely exhibited vanity, embarrassment⌠we already know cats are capable of vengeance and supremacy, but that was truly a new one for me.
Theyâre also capable of love⌠but I swear itâs more about an ends to a means than the unconditional kind. They are so manipulative.
Your reaction to Dustyâs accident reminds me of an episode of my favorite anime. The anime in question is Ojamajo Doremi, and the episode in question focuses on the relationship between Reika Tamaki, the showâs resident rich bitch classmate, and her father and reveals in a flash back that Reika recieved serious burns as a toddler from spilling hot liquid on herself and how her fatherâs guilt for not paying attention to the hot kettle lead to him spoiling her rotten.
Also, that pirate talk needs some feline verbal ticks or cat-based puns and metaphors⌠Also, Iâve been known to walk around with a kitten perched on my shoulder like a pirateâs parrot, which raises the question of what kind of pet a cat pirate would have, since cartoon cat logic dictates a cat pirate would just try to eat the parrot.
Also, canât believe I didnât think to ask sooner, but anyone know any zcode or glulxe parser games where one interacts with a cat in a significant way? Say, a cat NPC at least as complex as the pig from Lost Pig.
How about⌠âArrrr! The crew be mewtinous and in a furenzy, but theyâll never kick meowt! Though anything is pawsible. Itâs not like Iâm purrfect.â
