Cats are like marmite it seems, you either love them or hate them and I am most definitely in the 'love' camp.
They are often misunderstood creatures, people consider them to be anti-social and indifferent when they are quite the opposite. I know they do have a tendency to please themselves but you have to respect an animal that persuades a human to give them their own door!
There is something very endearing about my girl cat Purde sitting neatly on the bedside table, taking a playful swipe at a pen left on the side and seeing the look of surprised disappointment when it ends up on the floor and out of reach.
A friend's cat learnt a trick to play on any guests they had staying at the house. At breakfast he would seat himself on the table, opposite the guest and look wistfully over their shoulder at something of apparent great interest somewhere in the garden. When the hapless guest finally turned round to see what he was looking at, they would turn back to find Dougal with his head in their cereal bowl, happily licking up the milk!
And there are the two cats who managed to bring a live lobster (obviously ready to be cooked as it had it's pincers taped up) through the cat flap. Given that a lobster has a pretty robust armoured shell to protect it from cat claws and teeth, they got bored, wandered off and left it scuttling around the living room for the family to find when they returned home.
Cats are quite clever, it's just that they don't often employ their intelligence for anyone else's benefit but somehow you love them all the same.
All of creation is precious to me and speak to me of the Creator (I did think there was a verse in the bible which said that all of creation reflected God' glory but I can't find it, so have to conclude I imagined it!) but watching a cat is a lesson on how to just 'be' and how to relax.
Every time I see either of my two cats asleep it makes me smile, they are simply a picture of perfect contentment!
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