He was also quite psychic in scary ways.
Care to elaborate? A lot of cats seem to be
aware of shit.
A number of times he would panic and go nuts just minutes before something happened.
My wife and I used to do work on location photographing families for re-unions, individual location shoots or whatever. Once I had left her behind on a job to finish up while I went to prepare for the next day of work. She was due in about thirty minutes and I had been in the garage gathering the backgrounds, lighting and cameras to take for a big job the next day, which had an obscenely early start time. I had the music blasting (we lived away from people, then, in our dreamhome) at concert level, literally, when the cat started going nutzo - running towards me and jumping up, then bouncing off of me. It became very annoying and I decided to lock him up, went inside, had a second thought to change the music. He was still being goofy, but when I ejected the disk, the phone was ringing and I could hear it - could not have with the music on. I answered the phone and it was my wife, stranded on the road after hitting a deer and fucking up her car pretty bad. She was totally freaked and needed my help. The cat was sitting next to me as calm as ever, nose sampling the air, but purring deeply. He was cool, now. If he hadn't jumped up and bounced off of me I would have ignored him, figuring he wanted food. I mean you really had to be there to understand what happened and how it went, but I had a serious case of the chicken skin.
That was just the biggest time he helped me, but there were always weird things happening which coincided with some unusual, out-of-character behavior of his. He also made a habit of turning my third beer over. Two was my limit and I don't know how he could have known that, but he enforced it. There was a commercial on television with a gorilla and he was scared of it. I don't watch the tube (since the eighties), but my wife does and the cat always watched with her, but he would run and hide just before the gorilla commercial came on, not after he saw the gorilla, but BEFORE it came on, then non-chalantly stroll back in, acting normal.
I could continue for hours. I had Rocky for fourteen years and there were lots of incidents. He could not have been truly psychic, though, despite the evidence, because he actually died from being hit by a car. If he had been psychic, he would have ... anyway. Maybe he committed suicide.
