Strange Life of a Cat

In the eyes of many people, Big Fatty is just a quiet raccoon cat that is a bit stronger and fatter than other cats in the compound. Few people know that Big Fatty was actually small and thin when he was a child.

Before getting fat, the old lady with full hair was living alone. Although her son had always wanted to take the old man over, the old lady still preferred this compound where she had lived for decades, and rejected her son’s suggestion to hire a nanny. . One day, the old lady saw someone raising a cat in the compound, and she thought about raising a cat. She happened to be invited back to her hometown to attend a wedding banquet for a younger generation, so she planned to go back to her hometown to pick a kitten to bring back. She still prefers the cat in her hometown.

The old lady's hometown is in the province, not too far from the city. Every week, people from the hometown will come to the provincial capital to do business and deliver goods. Naturally, they will also visit the old lady. After all, some people here can live in the city. The provincial capital is still doing business safely thanks to the old lady's relationship, and I will definitely come here during the New Year and holidays. It just so happened that the mother cat of the person who came here gave birth to a cub. Hearing that the old lady wanted to bring a cat from her hometown to raise, she agreed immediately.

The old lady went back to her hometown in the car arranged by her son. Only when she arrived at her hometown did she know that there would be a few younger generations holding wedding events in the next month. To stay, the old lady thought it was too troublesome to go back and forth to the provincial capital of her hometown, so she simply decided to stay in her hometown for a month or two before returning to the provincial capital. Still tough, talk more.

During this period, the old lady went to choose a cat. In fact, when the old lady passed by, the litter of kittens was more than a month old, and all the cats with strong fur and good color were ordered, but the family didn't tell the old lady, they only let the old lady choose, which one do you like? Just catch it. For that family, they often go to the provincial capital to transport goods, and the old lady must have a good relationship here. Therefore, compared to others in the village, they want to please the old lady more, as long as the old lady is satisfied with the selection of cats. As for the other people who came here earlier to order a cat, they didn't care too much, it was just a cat, and when the time came, say a few words of apology and have a drink, and the matter would be over.

It's just that the family didn't expect that the old lady looked and looked at the litter of kittens, and finally picked the smallest one.

"This is just the last one to be born. I usually can't grab food from other cats. I was born small and didn't eat as much as other cats. It will become more obvious after this month." The man comforted the mother cat. By the way, the female cat in his family is an old cat, familiar with people, and does not run away when she sees people like other cats. Even if the neighbors come to see the kittens, the female cat will not care too much. Now she sees her face The old lady who gave birth was just a little vigilant and restless afterward, but the host family calmed down and calmed down again.

"It's just this one. I caught my eye right away." The old lady pointed to the obviously smaller kitten that was squeezed into the corner by her brothers and sisters. She chooses a cat based on her eyes, and when she sees it, she decides it.

The master wanted to persuade her, but seeing that the old lady had made up her mind, she didn't say any more. This litter of four kittens has already been ordered, and his family plans to keep another one for themselves. As for the youngest one, it was planned to be sold when it grows up, but it was unexpectedly picked up by the old lady.

A week later, the family sent the cat to the old lady. The kitten was almost two months old. In the past few days, people went to pick up the cat one after another. There were only two left in the cat litter. Now the youngest one was sent here. Only the one that was intended to be left remained.

As for naming, people in the village seldom think of a name for the cat, and there are few suggestions in this regard. Seeing that the kitten was thin and small, the old lady named it "Big Fatty", hoping that the kitten would grow bigger and stronger in the future.

"Big Fatty!" The old lady supported Fatty with both hands and called out his name a few times.

The two-month-old chubby, who was held in the palm of his hand, shook his shriveled body, looked pitifully at the old lady in front of him, and didn't cry too loudly. Much weaker.

After returning to the provincial capital, he was raised for a few months. His fat body has grown, and he is not as shriveled as he was when he was a child. Every month, the old lady took him to live in the military compound, and he was exposed to more new things.

Big Fatty is very clingy to the old lady, and he doesn’t need a leash, and he doesn’t run around very often, and he doesn’t run around the house energetically like other cats, which is one of the few cats.

However, even though Fatty is much quieter than other cats, he is still a cat.

Every cat will pay a price for its indebtedness, and Dapang's price is that he has formed an indissoluble bond with instant noodles.

One time, the old lady took Dapang to live with her son again. The old lady was pulled out by a friend to chat, and the big fat was left unattended in the room. It walked around the room, then climbed up the table legs, and saw Look at what's on the table. There are not many things on the table, except for a cup, only a bag of instant noodles is placed there.

Fatty stared at the side of the bag for half a minute, but couldn't help but go over and touch it with his paw.

The noise made by the outer package of instant noodles made Big Fatty very curious. Just touching it couldn't satisfy his curiosity, and he even went up and stepped on it several times.

Click!

A sound different from that of the instant noodle packaging bag made Big Fatty's stampede pause, and then the stampede became even more jubilant. Although you can't hear that "click" sound every time, you can still hear it more times.

So, when Dapang's cat father entered the room, he saw Dapang squatting on the instant noodles, his two front paws were still stepping on the edge of the instant noodles, and he could hear the sound of the noodles inside being broken.

When the big fat cat father took apart the instant noodles, he found that there were a lot of crumbs on the edge of the noodles inside. After all, the big fat is not too heavy now, and the noodles are generally good, but the edges have been trampled off a lot. crumbs.

The next day, Big Fatty’s cat father looked at the clean table before going out, then went back to the house and took out a bag of instant noodles from the cardboard box in the corner, shook it to hear how many crumbs were in it, and put the noodles on the table On the table, the same position as yesterday. When he came back in the afternoon, he saw Big Fatty squatting on the instant noodles and taking a nap. Hugging Fatty away, he picked up the bag of instant noodles and shook it. From the sound, he knew that there were much more crumbs than when he took it out in the morning.

Fatty, who was hugged away from a nap and still a little dazed, looked at the person in front of him, and yelled twice in confusion.

Big Fatty's cat father let go of the instant noodles, bent his legs and lowered his body, his eyes were at the same level as Big Fatty's, "You like to play with instant noodles, don't you?"

Fatty yawned.

"That's fine, you'll have to squat in the future."

So, as long as Big Fatty was brought here by the old lady, he had to squat on instant noodles for a while, and then he would be punished for squatting when he did something wrong.

There are a few retired military dogs in the compound here. Usually, someone will go to give them some simple training. The retired military dogs are no longer in peak condition. These simple trainings are just for them to move around.

Unexpectedly, Dapang's cat father took Dapang with him on a whim. Fortunately, those military dogs obeyed orders very much and did not show any aggressiveness towards Big Fatty. Fatty is not afraid either, I don't know if it's because he's too nervous, or because he's just daring, after a few days of being together, he started playing with those dogs.

Later, every time Big Fatty was brought over, he would "play" with those military dogs. To him it was play, but in fact he was training with those military dogs. Because of the cat's own advantages, it is very simple for it to overcome obstacles, so it is no wonder that it was a game from the beginning.

Seeing that Fatty is so receptive, the cat father started to think again, and asked someone to teach Fatty "lessons", and did not try to force Fatty to change his temperament, but just let Fatty learn to stay away from some dangerous objects, such as catching fish. Mouse traps, cat traps, etc. Many training tasks are not as perfect as those of the military dogs, and sometimes they cause trouble. Originally, the training tasks of several military dogs were going well, because when the big fat made a mistake and interrupted, the pace of the dogs was messed up. Fortunately, it didn't cause trouble, and it didn't run around, even if it ran, it wouldn't go far. After disappearing for a while, it would find a high ground and start calling people. Others will not say anything for the sake of its cat father.

Cats don’t obey orders completely like dogs, and those who train military dogs don’t have strict requirements on them like military dogs. Many times, Big Fatty just squats by the side to watch the training of those military dogs, or runs after them. .

Others didn't think it mattered, anyway, the cat was here to play soy sauce, and it just ran along, and no one would beat it if it made mistakes after following the training, so it was very easy. But no, the old lady, seeing the fat man running and jumping with those military dogs, the old lady felt distressed. In the old lady's heart, the military training is very tiring, and the military dogs are also tired. Thinking about it this way, my big Fatty must also be tired, and he can't control the big fat to run after him, so he can only put in more effort on food.

So even though the amount of exercise is not small, the big fat body is still full. I took it to the veterinarian for examination, and they couldn't tell why. They only said that it was probably the same as a human being, eating the same food and exercising the same amount. There are fat and thin points.

Fatty was taught by his cat father to play Morse code games since he was a child. He can play some simple Morse code games proficiently, just like understanding those short instructions during training, and he can repeat them as taught. Of course, this is not as good as Heitan and General, the more esoteric Morse code game, and Fatty cannot accept it, after all, it is not as special as those two. Even so, in the eyes of many people, Fatty is considered the elite of cats.

However, as the days passed, the fat man became more and more "rich", and in everyone's eyes, he lost his elite flavor. Whose elite would be a fat man?

In the first year that Fatty was adopted by the old lady, the old lady took her family home to worship the ancestors during the Chinese New Year, and also brought Fatty with her. On the night of returning to the village, Big Fatty had a fight with two cats in the village who stole salted fish from his old house, and it was still one against two, chasing and beating the cats until they screamed. Those two cats didn't dare to go to the door of Big Fatty's old house in a short period of time. Even if the old lady took Big Fatty away from the old house, the two cats wandered cautiously in the distance after two weeks.

The family who gave the cat back then wondered when they saw Big Fatty, how did the smallest and thinnest cat in the litter become the strongest? It is stronger than its brothers and sisters. Look at the fierce fight two days ago, and think about the cat in the village head old Wang's family being bitten on the ground and screaming, tsk!

Maybe it was because he was robbed by his brothers and sisters when he was a child, and when Big Fatty grew up, he was very protective of food. In the East District compound, the police chief and Ah Huang never went to snatch Big Fatty's food, and they dared not snatch Big Fatty's food if they couldn't beat him. Once a cat from the West District compound came over, and while the balcony door was open, Big Fatty also went out for a walk with the other three cats, followed the smell and went in to steal food, and was caught by the big fat man who came back.

Fatty, who was walking home slowly, suddenly became Spartan when he saw this. He rushed over at a speed that was far from the fat figure, and bit the cat on the ground. The biting made the cat scream, and the cat finally got injured and broke free After escaping from the door, a handful of hairs on his ears were bitten off. Fatty still didn't give up, but chased the cat out of the gate of the East District compound, crushing, kicking and biting the cat a few times on the way. Since then, the cat didn't even enter the gate of the East District compound, and it couldn't avoid seeing Fatty when walking around the campus.

Although he protects the food, Fatty does not eat indiscriminately, and rarely eats what others give him, even if he knows other people in the compound, he may not give face.

Generally speaking, although Big Fatty is not very friendly to other animals, he will not take the initiative to attack, unless he is robbed or encounters a dangerous object. Usually it looks harmless, at first glance it looks like a fluffy and docile cat doll, some people say that Fatty is too inactive, with other cats in the compound in front, it makes Fatty look like a slow old man, It is much quieter than Ah Huang, but for the old man, this is also an advantage, so it is a peace of mind.

The balcony on the first floor of Building B in the Eastern District Courtyard uses that kind of cement railing, probably because of the first floor. The railings on the balcony of Big Fatty’s house are wider than those on the upper floor. Usually there are two pots of flowers, and sometimes the old lady I also took out the insoles and put them there to dry in the sun, but there is a special place on the railing for Big Fatty. Whether he is squatting on the balcony floor or on the railing, Big Fatty always likes to squat in a fixed position. Someone once joked to the old lady, "Does your big fat man have obsessive-compulsive disorder?" The old lady laughed and said nothing.

Just like a trained soldier, Fatty is guarding the same place on the balcony at the same time every day, squinting his eyes and looking a little dazed and inattentive, but the ears that turn from time to time because of the slight sound show that he is very nervous. vigilance.

The people in the compound seem to be used to seeing the squinting raccoon squatting quietly on the balcony at a certain time. The children who walked past the building with their small schoolbags and sang "the sun shines in the sky" have changed to riding bicycles in a hurry, or have gone out of the house to fight for the future farther away, but every time everyone goes home , when passing by this building, I still habitually look at the balcony on the first floor, and then say to the friend next to me: "Look, it is big fat, and it has been squatting there since I was a child."

The summer wind blows in gusts, with the rustling of leaves.

The old lady is making cold cakes in the kitchen and plans to take them to her son tomorrow. The grandson called yesterday and said he wanted to eat them.

Fatty, who had just finished eating, walked out of the room with his mouth open. When he walked to the balcony, Fatty looked at a relatively hidden corner of the balcony. He didn't find the key, so he looked back and walked a few steps. Squatting on the balcony floor, licking its paws and wiping its face slowly, then jumping on the fence, squatting at its fixed position, squinting its eyes and taking a nap.

There is a tree in front of the building, and the leaves block the scorching sun, so Big Fatty squats there just in the shade, so it won't be too hot.

While squatting, the big fat ear moved.

A chihuahua came here chasing the sheriff, but the sheriff didn't look at Fatty, and ran past the building before disappearing in the blink of an eye. It was going to take refuge with Xiaohua temporarily.

The Chihuahua who didn't catch the cat looked around, and his eyes fell on the big fat squatting on the balcony railing, and he immediately bared his teeth and barked.

"Wow woof woof woof!"

It is estimated that the puppies who were provoked by the sheriff have a sense of hostility towards cats, so they barked at the big fat squatting on the balcony with a look of "it's none of my business", but it's a pity that the balcony It's too high, and it can't reach it even if it jumps vigorously, so it can only bark, there is no other way.

Fatty opened his eyes a little, and looked down at the Chihuahua. If the enemy does not move, I will not move, and if the enemy moves, I will still be as stable as Mount Tai.

Not blowing hair or screaming, Big Fatty just stared at it silently.

The cry of the little Chihuahua below gradually became smaller, backed up, backed up again, barked twice sternly, and then left in despair.

Seeing that the puppy was gone, Fatty turned around slowly, yawned, and continued to doze off with his eyes closed.