As Jayden would say, “say ahhh, Gerald”!
Last night’s yowling was a little less than the previous nights’ or were we so exhausted that we didn’t hear it or it didn’t wake us up? But I remember waking up at 2.30am and lo and behold…there was that golden silence! I didn’t even dare to tip-toe to check on Indra and Juno, knowing well that the moment Gerald sees or hears me, he will start yowling. So I just enjoyed the golden silence for about an hour before falling back to slumber.
I think it must have been 4.30am or so when the yowling woke me up. I was too exhausted to even check the time. The yowling did not stop; it just went on and on. That’s your typical Gerald-brand of yowling.
Husband is just waiting and waiting for the day I declare Gerald is fit to be released again. I don’t blame him – everyone needs a good night’s sleep; all of us and the neighbours.
If the yowling is really unbearable, I think we can release him once the wound completely heals and closes up. I can still feed him his medicines when he returns for food, which he would unless there are unforeseen circumstances again. Hopefully, no more. I haven’t seen the bully-cat around at all.
There are only Cisco, Charlie and Creamy. Lizzie is totally cat-friendly. In fact, Lizzie gives in to the cats. She is a gentle dog.
Gerald was particularly noisy, yowling nonstop yesterday evening, after returning from the vet’s. Maybe he knows he’s already “well enough”, so he is demanding to be released again.
The vet totally agreed with me that Gerald should be released. She says it is not good for his mental wellbeing to be confined when he doesn’t like it. She said she knows I’ve tried so many times (yes, three times) to confine him. “It’s not that you haven’t tried, you have, I know you have”, she said to me.
We have to respect Gerald’s wishes. We cannot hold him against his will. That’s like putting him in prison.
Handling Gerald is akin to parents who have to let their children do dangerous sports because it’s what they want to do so much. I remember reading an article about the wife of the pilot of the ill-fated MH17 saying that she willingly gives her blessings for her two sons to become pilots too as that is what they want to do with their lives.