Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Your Cat

I adopted Ginger, a Chocolate Point Siamese cat, from an animal shelter. She was about four months old when I adopted her. She had fleas when I first got her. I washed her with flea shampoo and flea dip for cats.

Ginger would follow me around the house. She would watch me doing various activities around the house. Ginger quickly learned the time of day that I would get up in the morning. She would meow very loudly at preciously the same time every morning. I no longer needed to use my alarm clock.

The only time bats would get in my house was when a new roof was being installed. One morning I woke up with a bat in my hair. I started screaming as I could feel the bat moving around on my head. It finally freed itself and flew off. I put my sheet over my head. The bat landed on the sheet on my head. Ginger got into action; she chased the bat all around my bedroom. She wore out the bat so I could catch it and put it outdoors where it belonged. Ginger was at the foot of my bed, huffing and puffing from her ordeal of wearing out the bat. She wore herself out too. Ginger was sixteen years old when she wore out the bat and herself.

Ginger watched me flush the toilet. She jumped on the toilet tank one day and washed my bathroom.

Ginger watched me turn on the answering machine every time I left the house for some time. I forgot to turn on the answering device one day. I had a house for rent that day. I thought I would miss all of my calls that morning. Ginger heard the phone ringing and must have felt to herself why isn’t that answering machine taking over? Ginger must have pushed her paw on the answering machine power button. When I got home, the light was flashing on the answering device. A lady had left a message saying she wanted to see my house for rent. The lady ended up renting my home. Ginger, my cat secretary, ended up renting my home to me.

Never underestimate the intelligence of your cat. They are more observant than you ever imagined.

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