thing in the
manner of Enio Marricone). She fawned furiously and demanded some more with the
help of her capricious meowing.
* * *
A tender predator - it
is hard to believe! One cat always clambered into my lips. She wanted to be
kissed. When I turned away, she mewed sharply and bit my chin with tender
reproach: "Are you fastidious then?"
When an unknown cat comes up, it looks
into your eyes hesitatingly and mews lamentably. It is met, as a rule, with
displeased grumbling. On the whole a beginner has to work pretty well in order
to win its place in a cat society.
* * *
Cats understand
somehow who deserves something by expression of eyes. They smelt at each other
and then stare at each other. Weak one (or less strong-willed) draws its ears
in, shrivels and moves away stealthily. Cats are able to guess people s
expectancies by their expression of eyes.
* * *
Cats ate
very sensitive to other s pain and they display true nobility. Megera snuggled
up to Lobik fondly when he had a broken pad. And the red tom-cat which liked to
drive him into trees, let him alone for recovery period.
* * *
I read somewhere that
eats guard their "personal area" very zealously. But I myself saw how they ate
able to lie peacefully on the warm cover of the sewage system hatch snuggled up
to each other densely.
* * *
The degree of survival
in the street conditions among cats is extremely low. The first reason of
mortality - people: drug addicts who stroll about surroundings of the house:
sanitary technicians who have access to a
