By Karen
Of all the cats ever on the Cats Working crew, Max has always been the most soft-spoken and reclusive, preferring the privacy of his Man Cave to shooting his mouth off on the blog or romping around with Roc and Tony.
But lately, Max has gotten quite a bit more sociable, now spending most days hanging out with the guys in the living room. (One reason could be that it feels about 10 degrees cooler downstairs in the summer.)
Evenings after dinner, he’s even been joining Roc and me on the couch to watch some tube.
On my iPad I have this app called Calm. I rely on it to keep my head from exploding from all the terrible things happening these days.
I’ve been devoting about 30 minutes every morning to daily meditations with Calm’s Jay Shetty, Jeff Warren and Tamara Levitt. (Tamara’s voice is so smooth and relaxing, it could melt diamonds.)
Max has noticed my ritual, and you know there’s nothing cats love better than a good ritual. Now, as soon as Max realizes I’ve “assumed the position” on the couch, he shows up for some TLP (tender loving petting).
I got two clips of Max in action. Here’s the first one…
And more. This is actually the cutest one…
Max confesses he wonders why Tamara tells me to, “Notice the paws at the beginning of the inhale,” and “Notice the paws at the end of the exhale,” because people don’t have paws.
Another thing I’ve started doing lately is, after scooping out the litterboxes, I smooth the litter perfectly flat like a Zen garden. It gives the kitties a tranquil place to do their business, and footprints in the litter let me know they’ve left some new buried treasure for me to scoop.
BONUS: I recently came across this thing called ASMR, and these videos are the most relaxing sounds EVER. The Sara Coromo videos are my favorite, but there are sounds for everyone out there. Here’s a short sample…
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Such a calm cat. My tuxie is full of piss and vinegar all the time. It’s exhausting!
Kate, I’ve had five tux cats. The females, Coco and Ginger, were feisty girls. Then Rex, Cole (who only had white feet on his hind legs and not much other white; I called him a leisure suit as opposed to tux), and now Max, all males. All very diffident and sweet. Sometimes I think Max is Rex reincarnated, they’re so similar. They would do anything to avoid a confrontation. Cole was a bit more assertive when he felt comfortable (which took a couple of years), and would go after Adele whenever she picked on Max, which was frequently.
Cats are cats! All different!
Love it!!!
Sent from my iPad
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