short cat thing

[flamingjune07]

I noticed the "writer's block" prompt for today, about renaming pet owners as pet "guardians." I was sort of casually mulling over the drawbacks of the word "guardian" when I realized that when I talk about my cat, what I mean is something more like my brother than, say, my table. There's something really funny (but maybe kind of true?) to me

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[hopita]

It bugs me when my vet sends out post cards addressed to my cats' "Master." In that context I would definitely prefer "guardian."

But mostly I'm with you: they are my cats, I am their person (or human). If ownership is implied, it's at least a mutual ownership.

[flamingjune07]

A little OT, but the other day my cat made this sad "pay attention to me" meow and it sounded like it was coming from the rusty, wobbly fire escape above a busy street outside and I flipped the fuck out trying to find her until I realized that she was just in the corner of the couch facing the relevant window and her voice had gotten sort of "thrown" somehow. It's like having a (thankfully relatively self-sufficient) fuzzy little kid or something.

[annablume]

Very much. I'm a kitty mama, not a master or a guardian.