My family has had a cat since I was thirteen or fourteen years old.

My mother was a hard-working rural woman who worked in the fields during the agricultural season and did some handicrafts at home during the idle season. When I was young, my family raised pigs, sheep, geese, rabbits, and so on.

When I was three or four years old, my father was very sick, and I have never asked him what his illness was. After he recovered from his illness, my father quit smoking and drinking, and this is probably the reason why my brother and I don't smoke. At that time, the family conditions were not good, a large part of the burden of the family fell on the mother, in addition to the fields to plant crops, only in a relatively large yard to raise livestock to earn a part of the family allowance. , which didn't stop until she was in her teens. One of the reasons for this was that my father was able to earn enough money to support the family and had some left over, and also because the government started to ban animal husbandry, so that the grass in the mountains could grow more.

Mother, a person who could not stay idle, dismantled the pigsties and goat pens, and then opened up the yard to grow vegetables. The field's grain yield is also high, the grain room in the grain more to come, in order to prevent rats they began to raise cats. Father did not agree to keep a cat, then the father has always been a macho look, may be in recent years began to slowly old temperament has changed. But the mouse is more crazy, can only agree.

From the beginning of the cat to now should have four cats, the most impressive is the third civet cat. I named it Little Flower, and it was indeed a female cat, and also gave birth to several litters. Only it wasn't a flower cat.

I brought Little Flower back from my sister-in-law's house, remembering it as a kitten born from my grandmother's rhubarb. In my house to stay . Time should also be the longest almost 4 5 years.

Just brought this little thing home when the little flower is just 1 month or so, because I brought it back, it only recognized me, the mother called it, and not much care. Then I went back to the city to go to school, and when I went back again, it had grown up a lot and no longer recognized me. As far as I can remember, it was summer vacation, and I stayed at home for the whole vacation, and it got to know me. Sometimes when I was sitting in the yard, it came back from a walk and called me, and I would rub my head against it.

In the fall of 2008, my brother got married, and at that time, the little flower was only 4.5 months old, and it was still considered a kitten. It's easy to play with it. It's easy to find a thing to move a little bit and it will be curious to pounce on it. Give it a round thing and it will play for half a day. When my brother got married, my sister-in-law had a lot of makeup in the bridal room, and it played with those little bottles and stuff. The old computer also has a photo of a small flower with lipstick, and it is the only photo that has its mark.

At that time, the little flower was already very athletic, and sometimes looked at the yard from the window of the house. The yard will often have sparrows fall in the yard looking for food, small flowers saw the top of the door to open the door to run out by themselves, in a short while will take a sparrow back. At first, they are not in a hurry to eat, probably because it is still small, to play for half a day before the sparrow will be eaten.

Little Flower is a smart cat, knows that urine and feces will go to the mother prepared for it in the box, which has sand. Nowadays, city cats are called kitty litter. It also opens doors, headbutts from the inside and scratches from the outside from its paws. The ones in the house don't have door locks. Of course the outside door has a lock it can't do anything about it.

Little Flower is an oddball cat who loves cucumbers. Cucumbers would be planted in the yard and when they were almost grown it would have a vegetable to eat. His father liked to eat the cucumbers raw, and often he would eat more than half of them and give him still a small half.

Little Flower often goes out at night before going to bed and comes home in the morning. Sometimes at five o'clock in the morning to come back, parents are still sleeping, it will scratch the glass with its claws, the mother had no choice but to open the window to let it in, it will be honest in the mother's quilt lying down to sleep.

In July of 2009, I went to Beijing.

By the time I got back for New Year's Eve, Little Flower was already a beautiful little cat with a little red cloth on her chest. But it's a bold one that no one can save, and when the firecrackers go off outside, it's scared and hides under the bed. The New Year should be the most unhappy and the happiest time for Little Flower. Because of the New Year, the family will have a lot of meat and other dishes to feed it. And it will steal food. New Year's Day will be dedicated to the ancestors, and then the small flower with a group of little brother to my family dedicated to the ancestors of the dishes to steal eat. The family is very helpless.

In 10 years, my niece was born, my father worked outside, my mother came to Qingdao to take care of my sister-in-law and the child for more than 3-4 months. No one at home to look at it, it is the neighbor's home around to seek food. When I went back, Little Flower was still there, but she was already quite thin. Mother just in front of the house, the little flower appeared in the mother's feet meowed, suddenly the mother almost tears, do not care to open the door, will be the little flower picked up and stroked for a while.

Early in the year, my niece had an operation, and my mother came to Qingdao to take care of her for more than two months, and then she went back to her niece and never showed up again. I'm not sure if I've ever seen one before, but I'm sure I've never seen one before, and I've never seen one before.

After that, there was a yellow cat, but it was not there because my mother came to Qingdao and left it behind.

Later, my mother told me that Xiao Hua had four or five litters of kittens, and one of them was sent to the Fourth Mother's house, which is still there, and it is also a civet cat. Most of the others were abandoned by their father when they were born.

Little Flower is indeed a delightful cat, mother to the west side of the alley, Little Flower wants to follow the mother, they will wait in front of the door of the next house, if the mother did not go in, then go to the next house. If she doesn't go in, she goes to the next house. If she goes into one of the houses, she follows her and waltzes in. If the mother just passes by and walks down the whole alley, it will not follow her. Maybe this area is its sphere of influence, and then go further into the territory of other cats.

A while ago, I watched a video of a cat running down the stairs from its owner's home on a business trip, and I thought of Little Flower, and I couldn't help but think of it.

Maybe I can get another cat.