#just completely round and sweet and ineffectual and deeply beloved

[aeide-thea]

the thing is—it's not that having a pet doesn't have certain limited similarities with having a kid (i say, only ever having had the first), but—when a kid gets you up in the wee hours sounding unusually distressed, i feel like the odds are probably at least a little lower that it's because they've caught a mouse they want you to deal with??

#i'm extremely disposed to roll my eyes at Biological Instincts but like #i really cannot overemphasize how much nefret cat is like. an absolute powdered doughnut of a creature #just completely round and sweet and ineffectual and deeply beloved #except like. somehow she *does* in fact catch small animals! it's astonishing! #mind you‚ usually once she's caught them she doesn't actually finish the job‚ but rather makes them *my* problem in some fashion #but. even so: wild! #journaling #domesticities #catblogging