Lovely Kitty

Zou Li, my mum occasionally draws cats. These cats in the drawing could be the cherished memory from the old days. I love these paintings very much.

When I was a small kid, we lived poor but we still kept cats. Not like the pets nowadays, we couldn’t take care of them often, and basically they only ate what we leftover. However, Cats are quite independent; they always know how to take care themselves. They are clean, they play by themselves, and they ate mouse as I saw with my eyes. They never played with me, but they did please me during my childhood. I still remembered my last cat, I used to kit it because sometimes it was really annoying. But along as I grow up, I realize that it was so bad and I really feel guilty.

I used to hear that cat never move home. It happened when we moved, our cat disappeared; it seems that it doesn’t want to follow us. A few days later, coincidently my father went back and saw our cat, she born 4 kitties and she became so skinny and so poor. The truth was she just hided to born the kitties. My father bought some food to feed them. But this really was the last time. They disappeared and never show up again when father wanted to bring them home the next day.

I want to cry every time I remember my father told me this. I wish my cat and her kitties are safe and all the best.