{"id":19780,"date":"2024-11-17T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-17T20:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19780"},"modified":"2024-11-19T22:07:26","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T21:07:26","slug":"daily_3548_-_cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/11\/17\/daily_3548_-_cats\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3548 &#8211; cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3548_cats_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The wooden deck outside is frequented by the neighbourhood cats, and the French doors allow us to see them. Probably the cats visit our porch as well, and other houses&#8217; decks and porches and verandas, but if there&#8217;s a closed door in between, nobody knows, and no contact occurs.<\/p>\n<p>If a cat visits a deck and nobody sees it, did the visit even happen?<\/p>\n<p>Here, though, we see the cats and the cats see us, and we let them in for a visit. This long-haired beauty is new to the neighbourhood, and very cautious, almost scared. S\/he put one paw in through the gap, pulled it back, put it in again, watched, then cautiously entered. Wouldn&#8217;t move as long as there was a human within two metres. Fled when there was a slight noise from the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>S\/he has a sibling as well: this one&#8217;s fur is a mixture of browns; the other one is very similar in both looks and behaviour but its fur is a mix of grays. And they wear identical GPS trackers around their necks.<\/p>\n<p>Morris, meanwhile, is back to his stand-offish, churlish ways. He comes in; Nysse sees him and approaches with gentle happy chirps. Morris responds by batting at him with his paw. Nysse backs away and sits, looking longingly at his friend.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3548_cats_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wooden deck outside is frequented by the neighbourhood cats, and the French doors allow us to see them. Probably the cats visit our porch as well, and other houses&#8217; decks and porches and verandas, but if there&#8217;s a closed door in between, nobody knows, and no contact occurs. If a cat visits a deck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,778,768,779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-nystagmus","category-photography-2","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19783,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19780\/revisions\/19783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}