This Thoughts from Life is going to take us into the lives of five cats. Four of the cats are indoor cats and one is an outdoor cat. The inside cats are Scout, Willow, Luna, and Beatrix. Scout is the mom of the other three. They are all female cats. The outside cat is Archie. He is a male cat. Specifically, he is an extremely vocal orange cat. Patti usually feeds Archie and the girls in the morning and gives them “sups” (wet food) at night at about 6:30 pm. I feed the girls their regular food whenever I get up and feed Archie when I get home from work at about 1:00 am. We’ve been trying to feed Archie as much as he will eat. He has been skinny since he first came into our lives. Because other animals have been eating his food, we know he has not been getting all the food we put out for him.
For some time, Patti and I have known about the raccoon (if it is a raccoon) hanging out in our yard. We both suspected he or she was under our porch when not walking around the yard. Patti decided we needed to capture and re-house the animal. She got a cage to accomplish this, and I set it up by the porch. In case you’re feeling déjà vu, don’t worry. I already talked about this in a previous article. This clarifies something I hadn’t mentioned previously. We saw raccoons, opossums, and other cats in the yard throughout the years. For some reason, we decided that the animal stealing Archie’s food was a raccoon.
Patti found out that relocating raccoons is illegal. (Side note: When I tried to put “relocating” into this paragraph, my grammar checker keeps trying to change it to “moving.” With wild animals, relocating is the correct term. It did it again!) When you trap them, animal control or pest control puts them to sleep. Patti doesn’t want to kill the raccoon. She’s looking into other options. I told other people at work about it, and they said raccoons carry rabies and other diseases. In the end, I think the raccoon is going to be too big for the cage and too smart to be caught by it. As with most problems, it will solve itself in time. By solving it, I mean whatever happens will be the solution. I’m not saying it’s up to fate. That’s a good topic, though. The next paragraph will continue this subject.
There are many things I don’t believe in. In fact, I don’t believe in anything longer than it takes me to find out if what I believe is factual. Fate is something that is mentioned frequently in fantasy stories. It is one part of fantasy stories I must ignore when it comes up. When a story has magical beings who can see into the future, I accept it as part of the world the author has created. I understand nothing is predestined in the real world. This type of thinking comes from the world of religion. As with all religious concepts, it presupposes a belief in supernatural happenings. In a fantasy story, the author is the creator of fateful situations. As far as I’m concerned, this is lazy writing.
Fate is a romantic concept. In the many autobiographies that I’ve listened to, people talk about how destiny brought them to someone else. Those people fall in love, marry, and live happily ever after. In the autobiography’s reality, you find out in later chapters that they both ignored signs that the relationship was toxic. All fairy tales ignore what happens after living happily ever after. People usually see friendships more realistically. People become friends over time. The story happens during their building friendship. Fate tells you what the story is before it happens. When I started this article, I had no idea I was going to talk about fate. In my story writing, I know where the story is going as I write it. In these articles, like I think, I keep it random to keep myself interested. Keep up the good work, Barbara.
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