My cat was extremely lively and very easy to raise. It never got sick. Every day when I came back from work, the first thing it would do was meow loudly at me. It was super cute and adorable. It liked beef jerky but didn’t like fish or pork. It also liked catching flies, and once it caught one… well… it ate it, and I couldn’t even get it out of its mouth.
I’m including a photo of my cat out of personal sentiment.
On June 2nd, 2019, my cat left me. At noon, when I was about to transfer it to a hospital in Wuhan, it passed away completely, due to kidney failure caused by cystitis. I first noticed that the cat was unwell in the evening. In my small hometown, only the animal husbandry station clinic could treat cats, and it was closed at night. Early in the morning on June 1st, I took it to the clinic. The veterinarian’s skills were limited, and I don’t want to recall the treatment process again. But he said something like this: “No matter how expensive canned food and instant food for humans are, people say they are junk food and can’t be eaten long – term. How much more so for animals?” That is to say, for most cats, apart from genetic factors, they get sick from their diet.
Thinking about it, when my grandmother in the countryside used to raise cats, I never heard of cat food. The cats ate rice mixed with fish scraps, chicken entrails, and fish offal, and occasionally caught mice. Those cats lived nearly 20 years. Why, when I carefully took care of my cat, never gave it any dirty food from outside, did it have a short life? The vitality of a small local cat is supposed to be very strong! I want to advise all my fellow cat – owners that no matter how good cat food and cat cans seem, they are just marketing gimmicks of the merchants. Just like instant noodles for humans, there are expensive and cheap ones, but no matter how many ingredients the expensive ones have and how much they are promoted, they are still just instant noodles. How healthy can they be?
If I had realized this earlier and made cat food myself for it, my cat might not have left me so early. It could still be lying on its back, using my foot as a pillow, still waiting for me when I went to the toilet, and still rubbing against us and meowing with its little kitten voice and purring when my family and I came home. My dear cat, I hope in your next life you can live the way you want, and never meet an unreliable owner like me, who thought I was giving you the best but might have actually harmed you. I want to remember what you looked like.
I will never raise a pet again.
On June 3rd, 2019, to help me, who was pregnant, get out of a depressive state, my partner took me to watch “A Dog’s Way Home 2”. After watching the movie, I decided to change my mind. Maybe I will meet another cat that will run towards me when it sees me. It will be my cat after reincarnation. It will still put its furry head on my foot and purr contentedly.
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