Saturday, March 31, 2018

One Cat

Here we are now with only one cat. She adjusted fairly easily to being the lone feline. She gets all the attention now. She greets us at the front door when we come home. Nya is much more relaxed and eager for us to throw a paper bally her way or draw a string across the floor for her to chase. She likes to be fed treats from my fingers and even stands up on her hind legs to get them. She sleeps on our bed at night and likes to be with her family when together. On the other hand, there is only three people in the whole world that she likes: my wife, my son and me. We are feeding her pumpkin cat food to lose weight; dental cat food for her teach; and treats to make her life interesting and to help get her in from the yard. When we shake the treat bag she comes running. We only let her out when: we are home, the weather is nice, and never at night.  Having only one cat has kept the expenses down considerable from when we had four cats. The dry cat food is $15 a month instead of $85 a month. The litter box is not as dirty, so the cost of kitty litter has decreased a lot. With the weather improving, I expect to see the kitty litter cost even less. The moral of the story is that having only one cat has been a blessing for us and the cat.

We were watching a documentary about the discovery of a 13 thousand year skeleton of a young woman found in a cave at the bottom of a an underground lake. They named her Naia and sounds the same as the name our cat Nya. The girl was named after a Greek mythological water nymph. My son tells me that Nya is Japanese for meow. In our book of baby names, Nia means precious one. Nya is a very fortunate cat to be rescued from the freezing cold one February night a few years ago.