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T
he in tense feel ing that
Pacco was alive, even if
this was com pletely ir ra tio nal and
seem ingly im pos si ble, quickly be came the
core in gre di ent of vir tu ally all fam ily in ter -
ac tion. “Good morn ing”, my wife would
say; “how good can it be good for Pacco
in this freez ing cold”, I would an swer.
“How was school, my love”? I would in -
quire gently of my daugh ter. “We learned
about am phib i ans today”, she would an -
swer with tears in her eyes. “Why is that
sad, my love”? I na ively asked. “Be cause
am phib i ans get all crin kled up in the win -
ter and are al most dead until sum mer, and
I think Pacco must be all crin kled up and
al most dead too, buh-huh-huh”. “What
did you do today” we would in quire of
our teen age son; “I went to my friend’s
house where we played with his warm,
safe, well-fed and happy cats” came the
snarly re sponse.
The prob lem dur ing these dif fi cult days
was sim ply this: the en tire ev i dence of
Pacco being alive rested on some paw
prints in the snow and an in tu itive feel ing
on my part; the same in tu ition
that thought it wise to get this
cat from an on-line buy and sell web site
in the first place. Under these cir cum -
stances, we were un sure about how much
con crete ac tion we should be tak ing to
de ter mine whether Pacco ac tu ally was
around. In a small town it is not that easy
to go up to neigh bours and try and ex plain
to them that we had lost our cat weeks
ago and still thought he might be alive,
win ter and wild pred a tors not with stand -
ing. We were anx ious, there fore, to avoid
being la beled as the ‘crazy cat peo ple’. All
of these is sues were con fus ing, in deed,
dis ori ent ing us. We were im mo bi lized by
the com plex ity of the sit u a tion, and for a
while, it seemed like negativity and sar -
casm were the best, and cer tainly the
eas i est way of cop ing with this. Then one
day we pulled into our drive way and
there was Pacco on the front porch, look -
ing ter ri ble, skinny, dirty and di shev eled,
but clearly very much alive.
We screamed, we stut tered, we
hugged and high fived all around. With out
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Cat and Youth Care, Part 3
Kiaras Gharabaghi