Billy No Mates: After the Shooting
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After being shot – which is clearly traumatic whether you are cat or human, you try to just get along again. It clearly isn’t easy as the bit of you that got shot by a large ball bearing from an air gun is still quite painful.
If you are human you might ‘track down’ the ‘shooter’ but if you are a cat that ultimately is unknown territory to you as it IS you, you just carry on being ‘a cat’ and you wonder why your leg still hurts and you look at the people who feed you and love you and cuddle you – even when the last thing you want is ‘cuddles’ because you are a cat and the only way your world works is when YOU are in control and the stupid ‘Two Legs’ have no idea what is in your head and –
They love you and they try to protect you and they would kill anyone who hurt you but they have no idea who shot you so they can’t protect you because you just have to go out of the ‘cat flap’ as what’s the point of a ‘cat flap’ if you can’t go out of it?
You are ‘Billy No Mates’ – ‘Billy Smudge’ – ‘Billy The Streak’ – ‘Billy The Cat Who Got Shot And Survived’
You are one of the most important things in the lives of ‘The Two Legs’.
They love you and they’d die to protect you if they had to.
You are Billy No Mates – the cat who was shot and had his wound licked by The Stealth Bomber who hates you and Maximus Spittimus who hates you and The Bumble who hates you and Gracie Mae The Fruit Bat who had been shot as well but we didn’t know back then and Purrrdy who hates you but flirts with you every time she sees you and Marie Bug who fluffs up her tail whenever you walk by – or hop by at the moment.
You are Billy No Mates and you’ll never stop being you.
Never stop Billy. Never.
You are hopping along as your right back leg is so sore. We know it is because if anyone – even your Purrrdy goes near it you ‘hiss’. You are in considerable pain aren’t you? That’s ok – well it isn’t ok – but we are all there for you Billy No Mates.
We are all, cats and Two Legs alike, your mates.
Billy Hop Along.
You are our baby.
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Forgot to mention…they see me as CanOpener..
I have a friend in Arizona. She had two cats when I lived there and although they seemed to adore her, she said that, if they could operate a can opener, they would probably murder her in her sleep.
Here, we have the two Yorkies, one old and blind, the other young and lazy. We also have outdoor pets, that gather at out humming bird feeder. One is a “Billy no mates” type. He’s a swallowtail humming bird that had somehow lost the two distinctive long tail feather that give them their name.
I reminded him that they are to attract females and, without them, he’ll never have “Uma namorada” (a girlfriend). The left feather started growing itself very promptly but the right side had only the stem of the lost feather protruding.
This morning, I noticed the stem was gone and the feather had started making its reappearance. Go Billy, Go! 😀
I have my own billynomates…their names are butter, the big red meathead, queen sammi and bones.
all abandoned…all more dead than alive when i found them…seem mostly to hate each other, and yes I’d give my life for them.
Love your posts,
Keith in Kentucky
He probably kept crapping in someone’s garden but poor thing
Our pets. They’re just animals. They don’t know what’s happening around them; they are only out to survive. Yeah. And that’s what people are, too.
Then, our pets get shot, because people either are not paying any attention, or they’ve decided that the animals are doing something TO them (the shooters). They don’t realize that their lives (the shooters’) mean nothing to the animals. The “owners” (I use the term “owners” instead of the more of the more correct one, “companions”, because perhaps that’s the way the shooters see the relationship) of the animals are the only ones important to the animals. The “owners” feed, care for, give attention to, and support the animals. The shooter doesn’t.
So the animal gets shot. For whatever reason. And the animal has no idea what happened or why. That is so sad! Poor Billy No Mates! Poor kitty that has no idea what’s been going on. Thank you so much for caring for him. All animals need care and concern, despite the fact that many people do the opposite.
No luck from the police yet? The ginger ale might be the next step!
Or, to be a bit more subtle, you might call on your #1 suspect and ask in anyone had borrowed his air rifle lately as your cats were being shot at. Explain what a heartless, cruel thing that is and how anyone that does that is a sub-human asshole that deserves to have his testicles slowly crushed in a vice. Just subtle hints, right?