Feline & Fangs

I used to be a dog person. Had dogs throughout my life. Of all assorted sizes and breeds. But this blog is not about dogs. It is about cats and how they entered and influenced my life.
We had a stray cat and kitten in Jammu who used to drop in now and then for scraps of food from the kitchen. They had this knack of appearing at lunch time and a cat with a pleading face is hard to resist. Even dogs do pleading expressions but the one a cat makes comes out of thousands of years of expertise. It is pretty hard to resist.
At around the same time we got a german shepherd pup and though it played with the cats initially with time it grew big. A dog, even a huge full grown one imagines it to be still a puppy throughout it's life, and the cute games he used to play with them became almost like a game of death for the cats. So with that there came an end to the beautiful friendship much to the puzzlement of our dog, Carlo, and the cats disappeared.
A few years back I started reading Murakami. The strong role cats play in his stories had a strong effect on me and I became intrigued with the breed.
I finally got my first cat, Furgie, from a kittens for free advert in OLX! So those things, the online placements, really work.
She was a handful to begin with. I had no experience of cats and already had a labrador, Suzana. It took me some time and quite a few bloody scratches to gain her trust.