Even the cats are laid back

  Waialua, Hawaii, United States
Sunday, October 26, 2008

Okay, tonight I saw one of the wierdest things I've ever seen in my life. A short interlude in my adventures, before I put up the more interesting adventure things.

So to set the scene a little, this weekend it had been a rainy one, and tonight it was just hot enough you wanted to turn on the AC but would feel guilty about using the power, but not cool enough you feel comfortable. So the sun had gone done a bit ago, so I thought I'd take a walk out in the cool night air and give the Trade Winds some time to cool off my house.

field of cats... close but not even as weird

I was really enjoying my walk out in the cool after rain night air, so after the usual mile or two I decided to keep going. Around that time I was coming up on the farm/ranch/plantation house area and thats when i saw it. I saw a few white or light colored things in the short grass, and as I got closer I could make out they were little furry animals. Dozens of cats lounging about, sitting in typical cat-style with paws tucked under, having what looked like some kind of love in next to this field on the street corner. They weren't all huddled together, but strangely evenly spaced out about 5-8' away from each other, spread out over like a 40-50' patch. It was very surreal.. like something you'd see in Pet Cemetary but never in real life. I know no one would believe me, so tried taking a picture with my camera on my phone, but even with its flash all you could see was black with street lights. As I got close to a few I noticed no collars, and not one of them was skinny or scraggly.. counted over 16 of them, and probably missed a few in the higher grasses. They must be having the good life out here near the coffee/chocalate/pineapple fields, plenty for them to hunt down. They were giving me this look like, "hey bro, move along.. you're uh... interrupting" so i just kept on with my walk. On my way back, I passed them again, and they were still all out there hanging out still.

I used to have this cat that we called "The Lover", as he didn't like fighting with other cats but tried to get close and hang out with them (especially the ladies... oh yeah!) Now when he'd try lovin' up on some neighbor cat, he'd inch closer and closer, and get the typical raised fur, hissing, and growling and then the inevitable chase. But not these cats, they were just all hanging out together, not close enough to be in each other's space I guess, but close enough you could call them a gang or "pride".

Tried searching online for a good picture of something close, but of course, not even among pictures of Lions could I find something similar. only thing that would have been weirder would have been to see a dog or two in there. :)

cats and dogs living together... mass hesteri