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Alfie checking out the new horn:



Alfie is my tuba cat. Our other cat, Mo, runs away and hides when I play the tuba. But Alfie is unbothered. He's a six-year old Kentucky (wild?)cat; Mo is a four-year-old Connecti-cat.

Bonus Alfie:



Mo and Alfie:

Cats are amazing. They are so incredibly smart, and quite a few people just have no idea. Dogs are programmed to run with and follow the pack, which makes them very easy to train and encourages them to stay around.

Cats don't run in packs, and are capable of living on their own as individuals. The reason they stay around with humans is because - every single day - they once again accept the deal. They stay because they like it, and not because instincts tell them to stay. Those who view cats as aloof are mostly the same ones who don't give their cats much attention in the form of the type of affection and attention that cats understand and appreciate. The fact that cats aren't always completely ready to worship a human or interact with a human make cats more like humans than dogs are like humans.

They also do a damn good job of keeping all the mice out of this 150 year old house!

Mo does NOT run away when I am playing trumpet, guitar, or ukulele, but does run away from trombones, baritones, and tubas. I think it's the size factor.

Both of these 3-year-old cats - which are both striped gray tabbys from completely different geographic locations - are very aggressive mousers. We have a little mouse problem in this big old house that I need to get under the house and solve after rental season or maybe in the fall when it's cool to work under there before the mice really try to get in for the winter, but in the meantime the cats don't let them screw around in here and when they come, the cats get them.

After I rebuilt that folding keyboard bench to suit myself for playing tubas, my other tuba chair - which Covid (the male cat which is very attached to me) always lays down and sleeps on, still needed that chair...so I didn't take it away and I just moved it diagonally back from the new keyboard bench about three feet, and it's still his chair - even though it's just a regular chair, not a sofa and certainly not a bed.

So he goes back and forth between that chair and the foot of our bed at night, probably depending on how much he wants to feel close to us and what the temperature is.

We live in the country, and our 10-year-old cat, "Tinkerbell", is very good at keeping mice and snakes away from the house. She is also oddly attached to me and doesn't seem to much like anyone else. One evening, my daughter and i went for a walk down my unpaved road. I saw the cat but didn't think much of it. Daughter says, "that's definitely YOUR cat, dad". I said, "why do you say that?" She said, "because nobody else's cat ever goes for a walk with them".

Yes, our cats go for walks with us, and ' if we walk too far - they begin meowing with a distressed type of meow.

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I cannot begin to explain how many times my cat has tried to go inside of my Sousa(lays on the ground most of the time) and subsequently almost get stuck lol.