{"id":991,"date":"2014-08-02T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/?p=991"},"modified":"2022-02-20T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T18:43:09","slug":"a-friend-instead-of-a-pet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diogonunes.com\/blog\/a-friend-instead-of-a-pet\/","title":{"rendered":"A friend instead of a pet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It all started when I found a cat in my closet<\/h3>\n

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It’s true. One morning I left the window open to cool the bedroom. When I returned there was a cat sitting inside one of the closet’s shelfs. #wtfmoment<\/code> The cat had no leash so it was a wild cat, however it wasn’t that scared and looked rather gentle. I politely invited the cat to leave the closet through the window. And so it did. The end. So I thought…<\/p>\n

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I have some almond trees and recently there’s a parrot pest eating all my almonds. I don’t mind that they eat the almonds at the top of the tree \u2013 after all, I wouldn’t be able to reach them anyway. However they already ate those and now they’re climbing down the tree to get the remaining almods.<\/p>\n

To my surprise the mysterious cat came to the rescue. I watched the cat enter into predator mode when the parrots arrived. I saw it nimbly climb the tree, the parrots saw it too and started making noise before they all decided it was better to leave.<\/p>\n

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Now we’re friends. I see her usually once a week, while I’m lunching or watering the plants. She’s very inquisitive, either gazing at my moves or inspecting the water inside the buckets. She has a very carasteristic gaze (see photo above)<\/p>\n

When I want to pet her, I squat and stretch my hand \u2013 if she’s on the mood, she’ll come and rub herself against my hand. But don’t be fooled, this is no pet: she won’t follow my commands, she won’t eat what I give her, and she won’t let me touch her if she doesn’t want it.<\/p>\n

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