Why We Need Each Other

Comcast is down all over the country.The black cat and I are hanging around together at the lake today and with no email I’ve been noticing her more than usual. She went outside a while ago, looked around briefly, came back in and squatted her box.What is UP with that? I have always wondered. Why, when we bring our cats up here to the lake won’t either of them pee outside. like every other quadruped? Finally someone finally told me: It’s because they don’t want to leave their scent and be tracked by predators and I sure wish I remembered a while ago when I met that lady at the veterinary hospital.We were there together, I with my gravely ill cat and she with her gravely ill dog. We got talking and in time she told me she had recently lost her husband whom she loved to pieces. He loved her too and also this dog of hers whose systems were slowly shutting down in the Intensive Care Unit 100 yards away from where we waited.He grew ill, I can’t remember how, but was all right again – until the day she heard a thud and the dog came tearing into the kitchen looking wild and panicked. She followed him blindly running up the stairs and into the bathroom – where she found her husband in the last seconds of life. Something had happened inside him and he was bleeding all over the floor which was so slick with wave upon wave of his red blood that she fell down in it – and then saw something that to her was even worse :Their dog licking it up as fast as he could.She cried when she got to that part. I cried too.And I am so sorry I was ignorant of that bit of animal lore because it might have comforted her.It wasn’t until I told someone this heart-breaking story that I learned that the animal was actually trying to protect his master by doing this. “It’s OK! We’ll cover the trail! No one will find us and kill us!”I am so sorry that I had lost her phone number by the time I leaned this. We all complain about how intruded on we sometimes feel with all our emails but today I am feeling a different way. I’m feeling Thank God we have each other. We need to tell others our circumstances because so many times friends or strangers, it is others who help us understand them.