A cat lives the way a secret life lives, close, warm, distant, mystical, both sweet and ferocious.  I watch Zip every day, and I still do not know what he sees or is watching out of my sight and awareness. A dog will give me everything; there are few mysteries; I am his universe. A cat is different. He can love me if I have food, but he never gives up everything. He is a mystic and keeps much of his life to himself. He enters my life and my consciousness. He insists on living his own life, in his own way,  something many people do not understand or believe.  He can read my mind, but often doesn’t bother. He never gives all of it up, and can be sweet and murderous within minutes. I love Zip, but part of him is his to know, not mine.

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Zip can the farm day and night. He sees everything that happens and watches what we don’t. Cats are mystics, unlike any other animal that lives with human beings.

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