Faith&Friends
COMMON GROUND
No More Climbing the Walls Am I as bad as my cat? by Joyce Starr Macias
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M
y cat, Tribble, rarely showed interest in store-bought toys, but he would literally climb the walls when chasing a flashlight beam. I would start out tracing a pattern on the carpet, smiling at him as he went round and round after a light he could never catch because it was constantly moving out of his reach. Tribble was part Maine Coon, which meant he was a pretty big boy long before he was full grown. Being so large, he was less than graceful in his leaps around the living room. And his co-ordination was even
worse when he’d chase a light that I had aimed part way up the wall! Up he’d go, paws flailing, never quite able to catch the evasive light. I sometimes felt a little bad for teasing him that way, but I’d remind myself that an indoor cat needed exercise, whatever form it came in. Guilty as Charged But it isn’t just cats who spend a good part of their time running in circles. When I thought about his antics from a different point of view, I began to see that there were
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