{"id":39602,"date":"2015-02-16T07:11:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T12:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39602"},"modified":"2015-02-16T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T12:11:54","slug":"the-kitties-finally-a-year-later-getting-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/the-kitties-finally-a-year-later-getting-along\/","title":{"rendered":"In human years, Ben is 24 and Yin is 120"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Benny<\/a>Benny the Cat and YinYang have been getting along, eating at the same station and sleeping at opposite ends of the couch.\u00a0 No one has ripped anyone’s face off yet.\u00a0 It took them a year to get to this point.\u00a0 Ben is 2, which makes him 24 in human years.\u00a0 Yinnie is 14, which makes her 120. Here’s a chart to figure cats’ ages.<\/a>\u00a0 When Benny first came on the scene, YinYang wanted nothing to do with him.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 But isn’t that always the way?\u00a0 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,<\/a> 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.\u00a0 He’ll run up on her on the driveway and want to play, and she’ll freeze him out with a glare.\u00a0 It used to be a glare and a growl and a hissy fit.\u00a0 Now they walk back and forth past each other with little reaction. She had to slowly get used to his energy, to his vibe.\u00a0 They’re not always on the same page but at least they’re not always at each other anymore.\u00a0 Small steps!<\/p>\n

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