What IS this cat?!
Okay so I need some input on something that is just totally out of my usual zone of expertise, haha! Rewind to early summer 2012. Hubby and I had discussed adopting a kitty, and decided we didn't really want one from a shelter - we wanted to help out someone who maybe needed to re-home their pet or something. I said I knew how that felt and I'd love to help someone like that out (been there done that), and it meant we'd be more likely to adopt a cat straight from a loving home and there'd be less mystery about it all. We put up an ad on Craigslist and just left it at that.
A few weeks later we started seeing this little black kitten during our regular trips to the beach at night (we liked to hang out there and just chit-chat and enjoy the breeze), hiding in the shadows watching us from a distance. The kitten would walk up from a nearby residential area, watch us a while, and then disappear. I tried to offer the poor thing some food, but he kept vanishing. I felt so bad for the little guy. The beach, the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan and the nearby busy road was no place for a lone black kitten! But there was really nothing we could do. Still he kept showing up and just watching us.
Well, then we get this e-mail response to our CL ad (after a long time of total lack of replies, too) from this family. They tell us this little black kitten has showed up to their porch and although they've been feeding him, they have cats of their own and they just can't keep the poor thing. They ask if we can come and see him and maybe take him home, hoping he can find a safe place to live before Michigan's bitter cold begins to set in in the coming months. We say sure, why not, what's the address? And as it turns out, they live right by the beach. Long story short, we go to this family's house, and who should we find but the same little black kitten, not a block away from where we'd seen him before, happily munching food from a glass bowl on their porch?! We pick him up and he just instantly starts to purr up a storm. We tell the family the story and that this kitten has been watching us, and they say "Who knows, maybe God just wanted you to have him!" So of course we take this beautiful black kitten home with us, and upon discovering a few little stray white hairs in his coat, we decide it looks like a star field and call him Nocturnus - or Nox, for short.
As Nox grew older, he started to participate in our rituals. When we were shielding the room, he'd walk in circles, dutifully whisking away the energies we wished to dispel. When I was being messed with, he crawled into my arms and sat on my chest, and the weight of any attacks would suddenly lift as he purred - then he'd walk away and lick himself like it was nothing. He spotted spirits and came to alert us, howling and leading us to them. When one of our roomies had an emotional breakdown, Nox walked up to me, looked deeply into my eyes as if asking what to do - I whispered softly a command (hoping nobody else present could hear it), and like he totally understood it, he walked straight over to the room where our roomie had barricaded himself in, and started to scrape at the door and meow...our roomie suddenly calmed down, and you could feel the energy just lift in the room for a minute or two. Recently hubby turned to kitty and said, "Keep watch over Mommy, will you kitty?" and the cat looked at him, and bowed his head. I said "Oh my god, did you just nod?! That's ridiculous, cats don't--" and I asked him "Do you actually understand me?!" He looked at me, and bowed his head. I wish I could say that's the first time he's done that. I just shook my head and freaked out a little. This is waaaay outside what I'm used to dealing with.
That brings me to my latest discovery. Nox was being adorable, curled in my arms tonight purring like usual. I giggled and pulled out my camera phone to try and snap some pictures, and he kept wriggling around but I did manage to capture a few pretty good ones. I pulled hubby aside to show him and we found something CREEPY AS HELL in the pictures. He told me to just upload it here and see what people think, because we are sooo clueless right now...
Attached are the photos in question. I want you guys to look at his eyes. Do you see that white FACE?! Just so you know, we cannot find anything at all that would make that kind of a reflection in his eyes. Also there is a white thing even from the side view. It's freaking us out a little bit here (well, myself more than hubby, I admit - he tends to roll with these things better than I do). We tried to look in the direction kitty was looking, recreate that reflection, wrap our heads around it...there is absolutely nothing that would make that kind of a shape.
What do you guys make of this? What IS this cat? I mean, he's really sweet, so it's not bad, whatever it is. Is there lore about this kind of stuff? Some kind of...I don't know, spirit animals or something? What are we dealing with here and how should we best care for the little guy if he's something...you know, different somehow? I mean we certainly try to keep him a happy kitty. Is there anything more I should know, here?
NOTE: By the way, I am in the process of moving, so I apologize for the clutter in the room, haha! Yay packing. :P
A few weeks later we started seeing this little black kitten during our regular trips to the beach at night (we liked to hang out there and just chit-chat and enjoy the breeze), hiding in the shadows watching us from a distance. The kitten would walk up from a nearby residential area, watch us a while, and then disappear. I tried to offer the poor thing some food, but he kept vanishing. I felt so bad for the little guy. The beach, the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan and the nearby busy road was no place for a lone black kitten! But there was really nothing we could do. Still he kept showing up and just watching us.
Well, then we get this e-mail response to our CL ad (after a long time of total lack of replies, too) from this family. They tell us this little black kitten has showed up to their porch and although they've been feeding him, they have cats of their own and they just can't keep the poor thing. They ask if we can come and see him and maybe take him home, hoping he can find a safe place to live before Michigan's bitter cold begins to set in in the coming months. We say sure, why not, what's the address? And as it turns out, they live right by the beach. Long story short, we go to this family's house, and who should we find but the same little black kitten, not a block away from where we'd seen him before, happily munching food from a glass bowl on their porch?! We pick him up and he just instantly starts to purr up a storm. We tell the family the story and that this kitten has been watching us, and they say "Who knows, maybe God just wanted you to have him!" So of course we take this beautiful black kitten home with us, and upon discovering a few little stray white hairs in his coat, we decide it looks like a star field and call him Nocturnus - or Nox, for short.
As Nox grew older, he started to participate in our rituals. When we were shielding the room, he'd walk in circles, dutifully whisking away the energies we wished to dispel. When I was being messed with, he crawled into my arms and sat on my chest, and the weight of any attacks would suddenly lift as he purred - then he'd walk away and lick himself like it was nothing. He spotted spirits and came to alert us, howling and leading us to them. When one of our roomies had an emotional breakdown, Nox walked up to me, looked deeply into my eyes as if asking what to do - I whispered softly a command (hoping nobody else present could hear it), and like he totally understood it, he walked straight over to the room where our roomie had barricaded himself in, and started to scrape at the door and meow...our roomie suddenly calmed down, and you could feel the energy just lift in the room for a minute or two. Recently hubby turned to kitty and said, "Keep watch over Mommy, will you kitty?" and the cat looked at him, and bowed his head. I said "Oh my god, did you just nod?! That's ridiculous, cats don't--" and I asked him "Do you actually understand me?!" He looked at me, and bowed his head. I wish I could say that's the first time he's done that. I just shook my head and freaked out a little. This is waaaay outside what I'm used to dealing with.
That brings me to my latest discovery. Nox was being adorable, curled in my arms tonight purring like usual. I giggled and pulled out my camera phone to try and snap some pictures, and he kept wriggling around but I did manage to capture a few pretty good ones. I pulled hubby aside to show him and we found something CREEPY AS HELL in the pictures. He told me to just upload it here and see what people think, because we are sooo clueless right now...
Attached are the photos in question. I want you guys to look at his eyes. Do you see that white FACE?! Just so you know, we cannot find anything at all that would make that kind of a reflection in his eyes. Also there is a white thing even from the side view. It's freaking us out a little bit here (well, myself more than hubby, I admit - he tends to roll with these things better than I do). We tried to look in the direction kitty was looking, recreate that reflection, wrap our heads around it...there is absolutely nothing that would make that kind of a shape.
What do you guys make of this? What IS this cat? I mean, he's really sweet, so it's not bad, whatever it is. Is there lore about this kind of stuff? Some kind of...I don't know, spirit animals or something? What are we dealing with here and how should we best care for the little guy if he's something...you know, different somehow? I mean we certainly try to keep him a happy kitty. Is there anything more I should know, here?
NOTE: By the way, I am in the process of moving, so I apologize for the clutter in the room, haha! Yay packing. :P
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