When I got back to my tent tonight I found the cat there mewing at me again. For some reason I was happy to see it. As a traveler, I rarely see anyone twice around here. I struck up a fire on the beach, which the cat was afraid of, and made some deep fried breadfruit, which is just the best shit ever. Damn I love breadfruit. The taste is consistent with potatoes but tastes succulent like fruit.
I caught a tiny fish fry for the cat. It didn't want it. What the hell.
I went to get shit from my car. The cat was following me again, but this time at a closer distance. It followed me into my tent and started clawing at my blanket. I picked it up and put it in the corner and laid down. It walked all over my laptop and then climbed onto my stomach and started sleeping. It was snoring. I mewed at it. It woke up and mewed back.
A voice in the back of my mind started listing all the diseases I could get from a feral cat.
In the morning I woke up as usual. There was no wind and the waves were calm. Boats full of tourists were sailing by. The sun was really beating down. I heard a meow. The cat was hiding in a nearby patch of grass. Today I am leaving the harbor and going to Hilo to work on a farm. I said goodbye to the cat and scratched its ears. I'm going to miss this cat. We get along so well. It would've been nice if I could keep him. If I did, I think I would've named it "Stray".
2 comments:
That's not a feral cat, it's a stray. If it were feral, it probably would not approach you and would try to attack you. In addition, you should have left the cat at a shelter.
man i hate it when pet enthusiasts tell me that im doing it wrong whenever i interact with non humans. Anyway if it makes you feel any better, there are so many of these "wild cats" that they dont have shelters in hawaii. They use capture-spay/neuter-release-manage.
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