"Pet Tails": me and my dancin' cat

When I was regularly volunteering at the local animal shelter, one of the things I'd do to be happy and have fun with the cats as I'd clean their cages was to be silly and foolish with them. Clearly, as with all cats, some cats like to be held, while others.....eh, not as much. Some cats - anywhere - like to be held so much that they'll roll around in your arms and snuggle up with your head. They just enjoy being held so much. At the shelter, you can tell one way that the cats like to be held by the fact that if you opened up their cage door to go to clean it out for them....that they'd leap out of the cage right onto your shoulder as if to prance around on your shoulder and back, as if they're saying "Heyyyyyyy J! Thanks for coming to see us! I appreciate you cleaning my cage for me! You're an awesome person!!!"

(Wow. If I only could get that much attention from people in general, especially single and attractive women. )

One of the cats who loved to do that was ... my cat Sylvester. This was back before I even adopted him. In fact, he became my buddy AT the shelter becuase he was so loving like this. I was even the one who named him myself - Sylvester, because of his black and white fur design, and his cute lil' pink nose, and his friskyness for being a year and a half old (estimated) cat.

He'd jump out on my shoulders, lay around my neck, snuggle up next to my head, and try to roll around playing without falling off. We got to having so much fun that we'd begin to dance around the room and just act silly.

Eventually of course I adopted him and brought him home and added him to the family. I did say here earlier that "my cat Sylvester".

But just because we're not at the shelter anymore, doesn't me me and 'Bester don't still dance. Every now and then for no reason if he jumps up on my shoulder and I'm holding him, we'll get to dancing around and he'll still snuggle up next to my head like he's enjoying it. This morning? He was acting crazy rolling around on the bed meowing and suddenly on the radio station we were listening to the song "Safety Dance" came on. So I allowed him to jump up and we danced around the bedroom to "Safety Dance". Just me and 'Bester, acting silly like the goofy guys we are.

Who's to say that I don't love my cats and appreciate them and act silly with them?