i just had a comical experience with #mochi the #catstr just now

i put out some of these char grilled beef chunks for him to eat, and the window was open and a bunch of noisy buzzy bumble-flies came in and started harassing him because meat

he fully freaked out over the flies, to the point where he was retreating to the stairs to hide from them while i was trying to locate and eliminate these pieces of shit fucking hate these things also

me and mochi have a lot in common, two things being high sensory acuity

his is typical to the species but he is sick at the moment so like me he is also irritable

yes, the main reason why i'm so bitey and jumpy is because i'm sick, and congrats, assholes, because this means i'm even more determined than ever in my life to purge your shitty arses from existence like i did to the two stupid bumble flies

not necessarily by killing you, that would be a bit weird and excessive, when i can just shut you out

and if it was my property, this cottage, it would have insect screens on every window yesterday, and there would not be flies

we get a few mosqquitoes here, but not many, idk why, probably because it's a bit too cold for their life cycle, but there is some, and they are very annoying when they show up to bug me when i'm sleeping, and leave their injection wounds all over my exposed skin

it was just funny as hell tho, i mean, sad, again, to watch the cat being distressed but funny also because his behaviour was so sympatico to my own feeling towards these pests

me and my mochi are gonna make our own little space in the world, and he is so sympatico to me that he is helping me focus on the important things that make the biggest impacts

you may think it's just some livestock but cats are so intelligent that they can be something even more connected than even dogs emotionally

he learns things so fast, that i just say words now that i have trained him to associate with places and parts of my body and bam he's on it like lightning, when i say his name, and he is asleep, he wakes up and ears point at me and sleepy eyes look towards me

i have a special affinity with cats, i think, because i have top percentile sensory acuity, inherited via my mother's family line

this round of learning how to live with one, which i have aspired to having a cat for a long time, is really coming full circle though, he's teaching me as much as i am teaching him