This morning I let my cat in about 4:00 am. I didn?t notice, but he apparently had a mouse in his mouth. As he approached the middle of the living area, he dropped the mouse on the floor. I jumped on the couch and the mouse ran. The cat chased the mouse, cornered it and then taunted it with his paw and when the mouse ran, he clentched it with his mouth and made growling and snarling noises. He then again took the mouse into the middle of the room and dropped it on the floor, he gave it time to run and then chased it, cornered it, then taunted it with his paw and when the mouse ran, he grabbed it fiercely with his mouth and growled. This went on for several minutes with the cat dropping the mouse in the middle of the room and then playing his game, when the mouse began to tire, he rolled on the floor in front of the mouse and was purring loudly and was just batting the mouse playful with his paw; almost like they were friends and then out of nowhere, he attacked the mouse again and took him out in the middle of the floor and dropped him; only to go through the same thing once more. I watched this for several minutes, I was terrified of the mouse, but I had the feeling I should do something, I ran and got a broom and thought of killing the mouse to put him out of his misery, but knowing the laws of nature, I retreated to the couch and stood on it in fear the mouse would come my way.
Finally, after what seemed liked several minutes, the mouse was very exhausted, he was underneath my baseboard heaters and was slowly walking along undercover and possibly thinking he was safe from the cat , I could tell he was injured by his limp, the cat just let him go. The cat began to roll on the floor and he started to clean himself, purring and lapping his fur and not paying any attention to the escaping mouse; he seemed very happy, pleased and content with himself. Then the mouse retreated around the corner into my kitchen. I waited for about five minutes to see what the cat was going to do and he was obviously going to do nothing. I went out into the kitchen, carrying my broom, and I couldn?t find the mouse. My thoughts are that the mouse will either die from the trauma or it is recovering and will escape or the mouse could come out later in the day and the cat could again, torture the mouse.
I had never known the true meaning of playing ?cat and mouse? until I saw this for myself and then I began to think of it in terms of the human life. The relationship I have been in is like ?cat and mouse?. My husband does something really hurtful to me emotionally, I get hurt and run from him and then I scurry around trying to forget what has happened so we can move on because the fear of losing him and starting over at this age is too much and I truly love this man; I forgive him and when I have finally started recovering and start feeling hope that things will get better, he does something else to hurt me and takes me down again. I once again, hide my pain and then just try to move on and pretend it didn?t happen and try to forgive him, he becomes charming and I think things are going to get better and then something happens again and I feel like my heart is being torn out of my chest and the cycle continues. One thing I can say about my husband is that he is consistent and one day, like the mouse, I will retreat and I will either go away or I?ll continue the pattern of ?cat and mouse? until the day I die.
What I have found is that negativity brings on more negativity; you become the people you hang with and the more negative one is in life, the more chance you have of becoming sick. If you can surround yourself with positive and successful people you have a better chance of becoming the same. This is easy for me to say, but three years ago my life was with much more positive people and circumstances. People say ?you let people do to you what they do?; yes, we are responsible for ourselves, but some people try to see the good in all people and try not to give up on the ones they love. A mother?s love for her children is ?unconditional?; should it be that way with their life partner? Each person has to answer that question on their own because some people are more tolerate than others.
Finally, after what seemed liked several minutes, the mouse was very exhausted, he was underneath my baseboard heaters and was slowly walking along undercover and possibly thinking he was safe from the cat , I could tell he was injured by his limp, the cat just let him go. The cat began to roll on the floor and he started to clean himself, purring and lapping his fur and not paying any attention to the escaping mouse; he seemed very happy, pleased and content with himself. Then the mouse retreated around the corner into my kitchen. I waited for about five minutes to see what the cat was going to do and he was obviously going to do nothing. I went out into the kitchen, carrying my broom, and I couldn?t find the mouse. My thoughts are that the mouse will either die from the trauma or it is recovering and will escape or the mouse could come out later in the day and the cat could again, torture the mouse.
I had never known the true meaning of playing ?cat and mouse? until I saw this for myself and then I began to think of it in terms of the human life. The relationship I have been in is like ?cat and mouse?. My husband does something really hurtful to me emotionally, I get hurt and run from him and then I scurry around trying to forget what has happened so we can move on because the fear of losing him and starting over at this age is too much and I truly love this man; I forgive him and when I have finally started recovering and start feeling hope that things will get better, he does something else to hurt me and takes me down again. I once again, hide my pain and then just try to move on and pretend it didn?t happen and try to forgive him, he becomes charming and I think things are going to get better and then something happens again and I feel like my heart is being torn out of my chest and the cycle continues. One thing I can say about my husband is that he is consistent and one day, like the mouse, I will retreat and I will either go away or I?ll continue the pattern of ?cat and mouse? until the day I die.
What I have found is that negativity brings on more negativity; you become the people you hang with and the more negative one is in life, the more chance you have of becoming sick. If you can surround yourself with positive and successful people you have a better chance of becoming the same. This is easy for me to say, but three years ago my life was with much more positive people and circumstances. People say ?you let people do to you what they do?; yes, we are responsible for ourselves, but some people try to see the good in all people and try not to give up on the ones they love. A mother?s love for her children is ?unconditional?; should it be that way with their life partner? Each person has to answer that question on their own because some people are more tolerate than others.
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