My Love of Paper Bags

Meow, Human! I’m Patches the Calico Cat. I’m lonely right now while the humans who also live here are out for the day, so I’m going to write something to pass the time. Something about changing my viewpoint on things.

I used to hate computer keyboards because they have such a funny give when you walk on them. But, after I started watching while sitting on a human’s shoulder, I realized that these keyboard thingies are used for writing. Talk about shifting my attitude! That’s when I started to write, and it’s become my passion!

Let me tell you about another thing that I used to HATE.

Paper bags. Brown paper bags. And here’s the part I used to hate: Noisy!

But no more. Now I LOVE paper bags. How’d this happen? It all started when I was about 6 months old. I suddenly developed this urge to go OUT at night. Then, even during the day. It was maddening, I tell you!

What does this have to do with paper bags? Hold on. I’m getting to that.

For some reason my ‘going out’ madness also distressed the humans. OK. Maybe it was my singing that really got to them. So they put some of my dry cat food into a paper bag. Then they shook the paper bag in a way that only humans do. What a racket! It was so scary.

But then they opened the bag RIGHT in front of my nose. Oh! The Aroma. Sigh. It even made me forget wanting to go out for a moment.

That first time was the start of something. Now, whenever the humans need to pet me, they shake a paper bag with a few nuggets of my food in it. It just gets me every time and I dash off toward the sound. I just can’t help myself.

And then came the day when it smelled so good that I had to get at that food. I actually stuck my nose in the bag. Then my whole head. Oh boy, was it cool in there. It was INSIDE, if you know what I mean. So then I crawled in there with my whole body.

That was heaven. I didn’t really care about the food after that. Just being contained that way; it felt so safe! And this filmy light filtered through the bag! And no one could see me! Now, whenever I see a paper bag, I crawl right in. If it’s folded up, I wiggle in anyway. Utter joy.

So. Now do you see how my hate for paper bags turned into LOVE?
 

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