So yesterday was an interesting day. I don’t know if I’ve told you this but we have outdoor cats. Since we’ve moved into this house there were already cats in the area and they would come by our house at the same time each day. So I figured the people who lived here before was used to feeding them every day. So that’s what we did and we’ve been feeding them ever since.

Now over the years we’ve had cats come and go. Some may have been picked up by others and kept as pets and some might have been run over by a passing car or something like that. These days we have around 8 or 10 cats that live outside in the barn and the metal building at the backside of the house. And 2 cats in particular have taken a liking to me and hubs. Well, 1 cat likes me the most and 1 cat likes hubs the most, lol. The cat that likes hubs will sit on the front porch and call to hubs each night to come and pay attention to her before he goes to bed. So he will walk out and pet her for a little while and then tell her goodnight before going to bed.

The cat that likes me the most follows me around everywhere I go outside and rubs on my legs every few minutes until I pet him. And most of the time he will act very upset if he can’t see me through the kitchen window when I’m doing the dishes. He sits on top of the car that’s parked under the car port and watches me each time I go into the kitchen. He will sometimes holler at me just so I will look at him from the kitchen window.

Okay, so yesterday was an interesting day because I was sitting here at the computer and was trying to eat some lunch when a piece of the food I was eating went down my windpipe and I started choking. I was the only one in the house so I was thinking OMG, this is it. So I jumped up and ran into the kitchen and the minute the cat saw me he went ballistic. He was tearing at the window screen trying to get in and was in full terror mode that something bad was about to happen to me. I’d never seen a cat do that before in my life.

Anyway, as I was trying to cough up the food in my wind pipe I remembered something I saw on tv one day so I rammed myself into the kitchen chair and it helped dislodge some of the food that was stuck in my windpipe. But there was still some food left so I kept coughing it until it finally came out. I was so exhausted when it was over that I fell to the floor and sat there for a minute and I could still hear the cat going crazy and screaming. I got up and looked out the window and couldn’t see the cat anymore so I opened the back door and he was meowing like crazy at me so I picked him up and started petting him.

Now I had never picked up any of the outside cats before so he was a little surprised when that happened and just kept looking at me. I guess he was trying to make sure I was okay. I was and he seemed less stressed out after I kept petting him for awhile. Then I put him down and went back inside the house. He went back onto the car under the carport and watched me the whole time I stood in the kitchen.

You know, I have always loved cats my entire life but nothing like this has ever happened to me before with a cat like that. And I am beginning to think that this cat might be my guardian angel or something, lol. I mean seriously, how weird is that? When hubs came home from work I told him what had happened and he was so upset that he wasn’t here and couldn’t help me. And he said he had never heard of a cat doing that before either and didn’t know what to make of it.

But today I am good and I am still coughing up a little bit from yesterday but man, I am glad I’m still here. And I’m so grateful that there’s a little kitty that cares about me so much that he would try to help. Of course I don’t know HOW he would have helped me but maybe he thought he could and to me, well. That just made my whole day, minus the choking part of course, lol.

Thanks for stopping by and hugs,