介绍:
Sure enough, on a November day when the weathers turning cold, Peaches was nowhere to be found. Alter an hour of searching, my wife heard a frightened “meow” from the back yard. Camouflaged among the oranges and browns of a tree’s remaining leaves was the little pussycat, perched precariously on a high limb.
I was called upon to retrieve a ladder and attempt to coax Peaches down. Anyone who’s ever had a cat up a tree knows that an accident is only one wrong move away. Peaches only climbed higher as I wondered how much a call to the fire department might be. Our son wanted to climb the tree, but I didn’t want a broken arm or leg to complicate the situation.
Then, something amazing happened. Mouse, our lazy indoor cat, ventured from the house. She jumped on the tree trunk and started to climb, her seldom-used claws finding purchase in the hard bark. To my knowledge, Mouse had never climbed anything more daunting than stair steps. As the rest of us stood by, mouths agape, Mouse climbed to the limb Peaches was glued to.
“Don’t you dare hurt that kitty, Mouse,” my wife pleaded in a bit of a panic.
But that wasn’t Mouse Intent. She was on a mission of mercy. She meowed at the younger cat and started back toward the tree trunk. It’s hard to say what transpired between the two felines that day, but Peaches carefully followed Mouse down the tree. My wife and I each grab a cat and nuzzled it before returning to the security of the Indoors.
Something definitely changed that day because Mouse approached Peaches later and licked her ears. The holidays were approaching. and we all had something unexpected to be thankful for— harmony within the household. An uneasy truce had been replaced with acceptance, by a feline who ended up showing compassion and courage when we least expected it.
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