At long last you find someone you can trust, someone who seems to care for you and help you. You find a safe place to sleep and they are always there.

And then you see that the one you were ready to depend on doing something terrible self-tortuous and self-destructive. You can't stop them, you are too small. You watch in horror hoping they make it out alive.

(Thoughts of a newly adopted cat watching a human take a bath.)

@futurebird did you get a new cat?

@futurebird healthy cats have amazing abilities to seemingly defeat physics in many areas, ranging from falling, to squeezing into tight spaces, to wriggling out of a seemingly secure grip. But the cube-square law ensures they will always be terrified of cold water, unless they grow to tiger size.

@futurebird footnote: there are tropical fishing cats of India, Bangladesh, and southeast asia, which are only twice the size of a housecat, but they live where the water is quite warm all year round.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_cat

At long last you find someone you can trust, someone who seems to care for you and help you. You find a safe place to sleep and they are always there.

And then you see that the one you were ready to depend on doing something terrible self-tortuous and self-destructive. You can't stop them, you are too small. You watch in horror hoping they make it out alive.

(Thoughts of a newly adopted cat watching a human take a bath.)

@futurebird Oh my gosh when we first adopted Dolores, she would yowl and howl and cry the whole time I was in the bath. She's gone mad! Mommy has lost her mind!!

@futurebird Oh my gosh when we first adopted Dolores, she would yowl and howl and cry the whole time I was in the bath. She's gone mad! Mommy has lost her mind!!

@carrideen @futurebird if you adopt another one, call her “Martirio”. Great pair!