All Our (Multi-Legged) Friends: Kisa
February 24th, 2009
This four-year-old’s Slavic name may sound vaguely female, and even imply a fragile build (Kisa = Kitty) – but Kisa is definitely a tomcat. A pensive one, but nevertheless a tomcat.
His owner, the commander-in-chief of our Listing Department, Anna, describes Kisa as “very quiet and selfish.” In her infinite kindness (aren’t we, cat owners, just utterly naive in our exculpatory interpretation of the slippery feline character???), Anna ascribes Kisa uniquely human qualities and goes on to qualify his quietness as his inclination to thinking… over acting.
Trying to get Kisa to take part in any activity appears to be an exercise in futility. Anna: “Kisa likes to observe…” Curiously, for a cat for sure, Kisa doesn’t demand attention, he “prefers to be left alone to his own thoughts.”
Kisa’s complexity vanishes when it comes to self-expression. Although never demanding of attention, he will go out of his way to show disdain; when he decides he doesn’t like someone, he will exact his revenge without delay or pretense: he will spray (and on occasion even pee on (!)) the offending guest’s personal belongings.
The opinionated tomcat was a $30 find, his original home a zoo store in South Carolina. We wonder if Kisa is still a South Carolinian deep inside, his soul spending its quiet hours yearning, longing… He doesn’t seem to enjoy New York as much. No back yard of his own – means no cat love for the Big Apple!
It could be that we all just got him wrong. It is quite possible that Mr-Grand-Thinker-Kisa is simply working on developing a surrogate sense of humor… or pondering a feline alternative to zen… or just trying to figure out how to get into MIT next year…
Either way, one thing’s for sure: when wet, Kisa finds it easier to defy gravity, his body mass seemingly shrinking into a tiny, slick, wet version of himself.
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