We barely understand animals, guys. Their difference from us is so much more
profound than we realize in most of our waking moments with them. Dreams,
now, those can be very different manners to discuss.
In cats, for example, why does one hiss so horribly at her sister after she
comes home from the vet? and why do so many people report the same occurrence
of this, independently? Are they still playing out a system of kittenhood, a notion
too deeply habituated in them, docile house cats -- too deep, I mean -- to have been
lost in their maturation? It is still be called into being. You have to make them feel
the power of large caring cat (often through long waves of initial protest, please note).
I'm suggesting that you become a cat and start reasoning for yourself. There is an important
role to be played, and it has been bestowed onto you by the powers already within you.
First, you have to settle the injured cat. Especially if her instinct is remove herself
from the center of the den (to flee and lie down on her own, I mean). Instead, you want her to
come to the center, to choose her place in the center of power amongst the whole pride
(the center of our shared cabin, Archie, you get it?). Ok, and once that's done, you'll have to
settle her sister (the uninjured one [although maybe she is injured, she just complained
when I massaged her back left hip a minute ago]). Anyway, you're going to have to settle her
regardless because we've all been through a single passionate engagement (which is another way
saying that passionate engagements are felt in waves of feeling so complex they must
play out amongst your bodies unequally... one wave sloshing over here while another one
sloshes over there). The moment you had with your injured cat felt genuinely parental. You all
felt it. You have to balance the energies with her, and you're going to have to cede to some of
her terms. But you want her to settle into the center of the space, too, ideally. (I guess I'm
just saying to do your best coaxing to get her into the shard space to settle herself through her
own force of will.... do everything you can -- be really charming to her -- so that she chooses a spot near our
injured third). There's an important concert to our mutual relaxation (you really gotta make
this happen).
I think the hissing thing is about is about breaking the will of her sister -- specifically her
will-to-wander away somewhere else. We all know it isn't safe out there. She should stay here.
Stay down. This is the safest place; it gives us our best odds at recovery.
Take inventory of all the current injuries in order of their severity (perform your best discernment:
what symptom appears to be worse than an other and why? Look closely because if they die, you want
to be able to tell yourself that you did everything in your power to help); put entries about symptoms
in your journal. Does it appears that there are symptoms hanging together into a single system? (Don't
miss that). Fastidiousness here may be the difference between life and death. Consider, for example,
the possibility that both cats have been getting slowly poisoned by a neighbor.
The symptoms of a slow poisoning would, of course, get expressed at different times in each cat. The one
who is sick right now is the least heavy of the two. If this were to happen, then you'd need a careful
record of the symptoms expressed, in the precise succession in which they were expressed, in each cat.
Do you want to be at the veterinarian later tonight or tomorrow without all of that evidence? Without it,
how could she determine the type of poison in time?
