of the 2, nimue has the most...shall we say, potential. not surprising since we met when she was a half-grown stray. her first response on our chance meeting was roll on the ground & ask me to pet her belly. it was like she knew me for her best friend from the moment she saw me. (i believe she may be the reincarnation of my cat merlin.) after she figured out where i lived, she started asking me to feed her. "gee, human, you know that dish of leftovers you put out back for montana? well, it really needs more food in it. please?"
now, this cat is really eloquent when she wants to be. she modulates her tones in true conversational fashion & occasionally speaks in sequential sentences. "well, first i slapped the mouse with my paw. then i bapped him about 20 feet in the air. boy, did he put up a fight. but i got him in the end & here he is! i hope you like this nice juicy mouse, mom." yes, this is exactly what it sounds like. don't get me wrong, she might not say anything of import all week except "whine! get out of bed & open the door!" & obviously you have to encourage the behavior by talking to the cat. many cats do not in fact talk too much to humans, montana didn't bother talking to me until after my daughters moved out. some cats however like the attention from day 1. & trying to decipher animal language is in many ways like trying to understand baby talk. i remember being a new mother & discovering that "la!" meant "feed me!" this doesn't mean i can understand word for word what she says, but i can usually get the gist from the tone of voice. most ppl can tell when a bird is scolding them, or a dog growls in a warning or wags its tail in friendly body language. learning to catch the nuances takes a little more work.
so it's not surprising when we have occasional telepathy, most often it's "hearing" her hunting. usually when this happens, she's apparently decided to bring me a "present." she's thinking of me, so i pick up the thought. unfortunately i also sometimes tend to pick up the thought-projections of her prey (not so fun). for example i "saw" a thought-projection of nimue as roughly a giant cat-bird: the head was strangely shaped & hawklike, as if her prey defined her as a wingless predator hawk. this was pretty strange. & about 5 minutes later she walks in with a dead starling, announcing a successful hunt & exactly what she did to subdue the creature. yummy, mom, & don't you want some? sigh... i'm philosophical about the hunting, because i understand the basic relationship of a human & a cat. a human never owns a cat, the human is the cat's slave (yeah). the human's function in life is to open doors, pet on demand, & provide an inexhaustible supply of milk in a dish. in return, a cat will occasionally remember your existence by taking care of you. this includes feeding you so you don't starve. you give her ppl food, she brings you one of her favorite snacks. fair trade, right? now, if a cat were larger, this could actually be a useful skill. after all, medieval humans trained hawks to bring down small game. & cats have actually been used this way in the past, tho not your domestic feline variety. a pair of hunting cheetahs was once mentioned as a gift to an egyptian king, to bring down gazelles for his table. for some reason, possibly because of the fearsome claws on a large cat, & possibly because they may be difficult to train (in reality a cat prefers to train you), modern humans usually choose to do their own hunting. anyway, occasional hunting makes nimue feel useful & gives her something to talk about. & it's no small thing to be beloved by a cat. remember, they were sacred in egypt! btw this "hearing of prey" has happened several times. i did ask her not to bring me so many presents unless she's hungry. cause i give the presents back, sorry, kitty, not hungry now....
nimue also has named me as i've named her. judging by her tone of voice, my name roughly translates as "mama" or "almighty giver of saucers of milk." i don't think she actually thinks i'm her mother, however it seems to be her best free-association (i'm named according to my main function). it's clearly a noun & the tone of voice is unmistakeable. she only seems to use it when calling me, like i'm in bed or something. she began using it outside my bedroom door when i had surgery & spent a lot of time in bed--well, she had incentive.
anyway i have more time to experiment, so...
in case i forgot to mention it, nimue is a real sweetheart. she actually loves her human & is very affectionate. that's why it's important to smudge properly (see smudging pages).
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