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Frankie Weiss and Her Magic by Dan M Weiss
Chapter 5 All about love
It’s now two weeks later, Frankie’s front lip swelling has gone down. She’s her old self; doing what cats who love their keepers do best. She keeps finding my lap a favourite place to bother me and lick my fingers or hand with her raspy tongue, as I’m attempting to put down on paper a history of our combined trials and tribulations, along with the noting of many happy times. This includes her adventures with Johnnie the Tabby, her companion cat and second fiddler. Even with no teeth Frankie still shows Johnnie who’s boss in the Weiss household. For no apparent reason she’ll pounce on poor Johnnie just to let her know, that toothless, it makes no difference; I’m still boss cat! It may be that Johnnie does not understand Frankie lost all her teeth. She’ll try to avoid any possible squabble between the two of them. But Frankie, with her devious mind, will hide on a wall side away from the view of Johnnie, and as she passes will jump her, rarely have I seen Johnnie fight back, she runs away. Following my dismay with Frankie’s loss of teeth, I decided to learn more about cats, their needs and upkeep, even after three years of togetherness, I had much to learn. Going to the library, I borrowed a few books relating to the feline specie. In doing research, I realized some of my observations were a little askew, while other past happenings and experiences would be added to the compilation of my short stories, tending to make a more rounded observation of our shared lives. In relating a number of incidents, remote, past, and up to date as possible in the telling of “Frankie and Her Magic”, I have no need to expand any of the activities in order to rearrange the truth to make this tale more feasible. It speaks for itself. Frankie and Her Beguiling Antics Frankie and Johnnie have now shared my home over three years, it may seem to the reader I may care more for Frankie, not so, in my adoption of these two cats, I played no favourites. They are both my “children” on equal terms. It’s just that these pages have been filled with more stuff concerning Frankie and her fight with the curse of Gingivitis. Johnnie, being the calm and proper lady cat she is, defers to Frankie and her machinations as cat-like they may be. Johnnie has never been sick nor caused me any aggravation, excepting the times she elects to make a number two on the large blue sheet underneath the litter boxes. It’s not that the litter boxes are not cleaned; I have a feeling that the removal of her front claws will not permit Johnnie to cover her excrement, either, in going a number one or two. More than a few times I have seen Johnnie licking her paw bottoms, leading me to believe that the missing claws still bother her, although she uses the litter box to make a number one, she has never done so on the blue sheet. For this I’m thankful. While Frankie who went through the same claw removal covers her excrement with an unbelievable gusto, she sends Scoop litter flying in all directions on the sheet underneath the litter boxes. I have read many thoughts deploring cat claw removal. I’m not one of the proponents of that feeling, excepting in the case where a cat may be raised as an outside animal. It is there that a cat needs all the protection possible. More than three months have passed since all of Frankie’s teeth were removed. Thankfully, it looks very much like the gingivitis is a past memory. She has taught herself how to use her lips in eating, minus her front teeth used for grasping food from her dish. She’s once again, the Frankie that I first beheld in that Marlton Animal cage so long ago (minus her teeth). I still think Johnnie does not understand Frankie is toothless; in her bossy attitude, I’ve seen Frankie try to bite Johnnie with her gums, just as she tries to give me a gummy love bite at times. The only exception is her beloved bear. She can no longer abuse it with abandonment as in the past. That being the case, I put it away (one ear, again, hanging by a thread).
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