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About 25 years ago, I was working in Europe, and had moved there with my cats (a brown tabby boy, a red tabby girl, a tortie; the tabbies gone in 2000, the tortie in 2005; I have their ashes and they'll be ashed again along with me someday).

I went back to the States for 2 weeks (had wonderful catsitters, a man and wife), and the return to Europe was really messed up with delays and re-scheduled flights and ugh. So I got home at a hideous hour, hugged my fuzz balls, fell on the bed fully dressed and was out like a light.

Woke up thinking I'd had a stroke. Couldn't move my right arm, couldn't lift my head.

Turned out that my brown tabby boy was hanging onto my arm for dear life, with his back feet braced along my elbow and his head in my hand and both front paws holding my wrist. And the reason I couldn't lift my head was that the tortie was firmly bedded down in my (very long) hair. The red tabby girl was resting her head on one of my ankles, bedded down between them, but I hadn't noticed her yet - as soon as I realized what was going on I dislodged everyone else carefully then found her there.

I was escorted everywhere inside that maisonette for at least a week. Never left for more than a week after that.

Wow.

It's silly when people say that cats aren't affectionate.

They're responsive. They tend to be demonstrative when they know it's welcome... dear sweet things.

Oh, the purring at the end of that video...

A kitty and a kitten at the petstore with no leashes! They both look a lot like Boo!




More kitties!


I really like this guy's cat videos.

Music, back atcha



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a-FnIqM0rI

Aw, those sweet kitties! Athena is so pretty!

^ Awwwwww. They really do respond to these things.

I moved back to the States with these three; the tabbies were old kitties by then, and I took my vacations at home so I could be with them as much as possible while I still had them. No regrets about that

^Would you like an escort, Miss Kuraudo? I'd love to go there too!

But, the main problems are two things.

1. Public nudity in hot springs and bath houses.

2. Their main diet is seafood, and I don't like seafood that much.

^I'd be honoured.
I'm perfectly fine with nudity, so that's no worry to me.
I expect I'd eat a lot of rice there, since it's one of the few things I can reliably eat. Yummy.

Here are The Chieftains in Japan... in Nara, to be precise.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNRt14YppEw

I would like to go to Japan, too! The Olympics will be held there in 2020 and they have cat cafes!

You'd probably love visiting there, IstominFan

I felt surprisingly welcome and at home there on a business trip, despite my very Scottish appearance. When I'm in a new place I default to Baseline Aspie Serious Manners, and that seemed to be really well received (I also try to brush up on local politeness to try to avoid gaffes - not much use being rudely polite )

The other place where Baseline Aspie Serious Manners really helped me was when I worked briefly in the UK. So there can be advantages to "Aspie formality" depending on where you are!