Caturday With Gyal.
It's a perfect Caturday Saturday to share a post dedicated to my incredible cat, Gyal. It's been too long since the last one.
Last time I spoke about Gyal, she had just put to birth and was handling the role of a mother with such ease. A few months after that, she gave birth again and this time around, things became a bit different.
Seeing that Gyal and some of her grown up children started reproducing so often, my mom decided to give some kittens to family friends that showed interest, to prevent the formation of a cat dynasty at home. The same cat dynasty I was actually looking forward to. But hey, the owner of the house makes the rules.
Currently, we have so many grown cats around that I've lost count, but one thing I do know is that they are all Gyal's descendants. Most of them prefer keeping their distance so I barely have any pictures of them.
The first family friend came about a month after Gyal gave birth to four kittens and she left with one. About a week after that, another family friend came and left with two and shortly after that, the last kitten, which Gyal was steadfastly protecting, was given to yet another family friend. Of course I didn't like the idea of taking all of Gyal's children away from her so I had no hand in it.
The day the last kitten was taken away, Gyal meowed throughout the day. Now, I found this strange because Gyal is barely ever vocal. There was a point in Gyal's youth when I thought Gyal had lost her voice because she barely ever made a sound. Now, all she did was make sounds. This got me very worried.
The loud meowing continued for days and each time she meowed, she stood by the room where all her kittens were prior to being taken away. Seeing this, I assumed she was simply just missing her kittens but my mom said something in the lines of “she's lactating and without kittens to take the milk, her breasts must be hurting”. This is also a very logical way to look at it coupled with the fact that her breasts are a bit engorged.
I can't make outright inferences about the situation but each time Gyal stands by that door to meow, my heart breaks a bit because I know that the meowing is as a result of her missing children. Or do you think otherwise?
Nonetheless, the meowing has reduced and Gyal is gradually getting back to being the carefree diva that she is.
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