They Are Not Just Pet Animals

I was about to start writing for today's post but then I was interrupted again by my buddy here who is too cute to get annoyed with.

He always does this to me whenever he wants food. He would jump on top of my table and sit or lay so that there he then would make sound like he is starving. He would not leave until I gave him food.

He did it twice when I was on a zoom meeting with my boss. You know he jumped in and then started demanding meow asking for food. So I had to pause and pour cat food quickly on his plate. My boss just laughs afterwards.

Anyway speaking of my cat since my attention was diverted to him, I drop down my topic for today and write about him instead.

His name is Kitkit and he just turned one year old this month. Of course he is tender and adorable just like most of the cats. He doesn’t go out because we don’t want to. He just stays inside the house ever since he was a kitten. He also uses the toilet whenever he poops and pee.

Last month he was ill and suffered from the flu. I have been petting cats since I was a kid and this is the first time that my cat got the flu. He never goes out so it is impossible that he gets the virus outside.

This happened when my wife was sneezing and then she hugged Kitkit and kissed him like she used to do. The next day Kitkit was sneezing. I was suspecting that he was infected by my wife although she doesn’t seem to believe it when I tell her.

The following day his condition worsened. Clear water was flowing out of his nose and he kept on sneezing. I thought human flu cannot infect domestic animals. I Google it and it was true that our pet can acquire human flu just like what has happened to my cat.

On the third day he was really in bad shape. He doesn’t eat cat food but drinks a lot of water. He always wanted his nose up and the breath thru his mouth. He got a clogged nose and then fell asleep in a sitting position.

I was worried about him because we can’t bring him to the vet as we don’t have a vet clinic near our place. So I just did research on the internet about a home cure for domestic animals, particularly the flu with cats.

There is a lot of information on how to care for a sick pet on the internet and one home remedy is by steaming aside from giving those meds for pets.  So what I did was to steam him at least two times a day because he was resistant when I was trying to give him medication. I also tried to feed him by guessing what kind of food he wanted to eat. I was thankful that he ate sardine instead when he felt he could no longer stand the starvation.

He was sick for almost three weeks. Now he is in good shape again and back to his usual way of messing around.

Some people don’t like petting cats and prefer dogs. For some reason, there are also people who don’t like petting animals at all.

There is a positive effect of having pet animals in our home. Unless you have allergies with them for sure you wouldn’t like having one.

Pet animals are my stress reliever. You know it just feels good when your pet animals seem to sympathize with you whenever you are completely drained. They can feel it too and even if they can’t talk you can feel their compassion.

I hope you have learned something from this post especially if you are not an animal lover.

We have to understand that animals have feelings because they have a heart too. Remember that pet animals can see the unseen, I mean they can foretell danger so that it can warn us and save us from any unfortunate event.

Thanks for reading. Ciao!