Benny the Cat and YinYang have been getting along, eating at the same station and sleeping at opposite ends of the couch.  No one has ripped anyone’s face off yet.  It took them a year to get to this point.  Ben is 2, which makes him 24 in human years.  Yinnie is 14, which makes her 120. Here’s a chart to figure cats’ ages.  When Benny first came on the scene, YinYang wanted nothing to do with him.  After several years of being one of 3-5 cats in the family, she’d gotten to be “the only cat” for a year and liked it that way. Suddenly a fumbling, frisky spirit entered her quiet world and she was zen no more.  But isn’t that always the way?  Folks drop in from out of the blue to rock the boat and take us out of familiar territory. Like the Coyote in the Animal Medicine Card, they make us question where we are and why we’re there? Sometimes the coyote is simply the silly, playful, clueless one and that’s the type Benny is.  He’ll run up on her on the driveway and want to play, and she’ll freeze him out with a glare.  It used to be a glare and a growl and a hissy fit.  Now they walk back and forth past each other with little reaction. She had to slowly get used to his energy, to his vibe.  They’re not always on the same page but at least they’re not always at each other anymore.  Small steps!