From My Hiding Places

My Soul Mate Cat

Was supposed to go on a cruise but Caelian Kian isn’t on a Catster page yet and I’m not going without him. I’ll just stay home with him -- not exactly at home most days. I’m staying with whichever friends at the moment have Caelian Kian or at his parents human ones home. I go home to visit Mother a couple of times per week and sometimes even spend the night but they have learned that if Caelian doesn’t come with me that I wail and yowl and caterwaul and carry on like a Banshee all night long. That’s one reason Mother agreed to the great feral cat socialization experiment that the friends are conducting because it means that I am rarely ever separated from Caelian. He’s on the experimental program to try and stop him from destroying the house when his people are away. However, as I have become so very attached to Caelian and as Mother loves me so dearly and cannot give me up, Caelian’s people have agreed that Caelian Kian is very definitely Mother’s cat too. She is his Mother now, but we’re not brother and sister because Caelian is my soul mate cat.

Mother couldn’t stand it any more the way I carried on in the room and got into the window and watched him driven away by his human. I would start carrying on the moment he was out of sight yowling my head off and pacing the room and picking fights with Leah as if she were the cause of his departure. Maybe I thought if she could go visit he could stay. Never before had I attempted to escape from the house but I started slinking around and watching for my chance to get out the door to try and go find him. Every time he left I was just heart broken and convinced he wouldn’t be back. I was joyous every time he returned so finally Mother agreed because her cat was upset and sad and distraught that I could go stay with the friends when need be and shift around with Caelian my beloved male friend cat. Caelian is much more social than I am and is better at tolerating people around him though I hid at first. But I can’t bear for him to be away from me for too long so I tolerate going out in the open and having my head petted as long as he’s there and I can curl up to him. He isn’t tolerant for being petted for long time periods so we’re fine, good together.

Every time Caelian left I yowled and cat howled and carried on like the world was ending and I could go on for hours, could walk into another room and hide and yowl howl from under the bed from inside the closet, hide where they had to search for me in other parts of the house and howl out my despair that my friend cat was gone, wasn’t with me any more. That was it. She told Mel she was being cruel that I needed to be with my love. Mel was going to make arrangements for her loved Crow to stay with some friends so Caelian could be here, but Mother said no, that Caelian was a beautiful cat and that people walking by just stared up at the house when he sat in the windows and she was very afraid that he would be stolen -- big guy but just lovely long Siamese fur so off to Caelian’s house I went. Yes, I am still Mother’s cat but so is Caelian now and one day soon we hope we will live with her fulltime again and not just part time not just for visits. I have a soul mate cat in Caelian Kian.

Love to all, Thomasina The Countess of Monte Cristo