(333) Cat and Fish/ cat tales 25

Many years ago, I used to take my toddler to see a doctor. While waiting for our turn, we would look at a fish in an aquarium. More often than not, a black cat was also sitting in front of the aquarium, caught up just like us, staring at the colourful fish swimming about.

As my children grow older, they fell sick less often. Before I know it, I had not been to the doctor's for years. Just two months back, we were back to the same place, this time it was a sports injury. We recognised the nurse, who smiled warmly. But the aquarium had been changed, the fish is of a different type. They are colouful and attractive, but not as big as the old one. Ah! There was no cat. After we came out of the doctor's room, my daughter asked the nurse what happened to the big fish.

Apparently there was a black out two years back for more than ten hours. Without the air blower, the big fish died. Sad, wasn't it? After all, it had been with the clinic for eight years. What about the cat? It never came back, after the fish died. At first, the nurses looked for it, they had been feeding it out of their lunch and dinner. It was one of those cats that lived on the kindness of restaurant workers and in this case, the nurses who grew fond of it. Later, an old lady who lived nearby said that the cat died in front of the clinic, a street sweeper wrapped it in newspaper and disposed it.

It was interesting to hear of the deaths of two animals so close to each other. Could animals communicate? Could cats befriend a fish?

- And Johnathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself. -
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