[Magdalen] If they were only bigger, they'd eat you

[Jay Weigel]

I've told before of my long-departed kitty Jack, who was a "healing cat".
If someone in the family was sick, he'd curl up or stretch out on or next
to whatever hurt and purr. It worked quite well, although it was somewhat
inconvenient for headaches.

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:17 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I noticed a conservative and very angry columnist pick up on some
> reasearch, if that's the correct term in which some animal behaviorists
> discovered that in fact if your cat were large enough, he or she would
> actually eat you.
>
> The other day, having some work done on the house which opened up the
> subflooring, I herded (yes it is possible) our cats over to my office,
> where they would be safe.  I put down some food in a bowl for Nancy.
>
> She went over to the bowl and sniffed it, and then walked over to me,
> hopped into my lap and started giving me kisses, and eventually nested on
> my arm, as she so often does, and settled down in my lap.
>
> My study concludes that the other guy's study is full of horse manure.
>
> I think I've told the story of my cats and my migraine, and how they all
> made pax with each other and lay quietly on me, purring curative purrs,
> slowly bidding my migraine depart.
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>