| Over the years I have had a lot of cats. Some have | | | | love to be cuddled and made a fuss over while |
| been my favorites and others have been pets | | | | others seem to merely tolerate their humans, quite |
| because I did not have the heart to give them away. | | | | often with disdain, and only then when it suits them. |
| I have lived on a horse farm for a long time so cats | | | | One of my cats in particular did seem to really like |
| have a way of multiplying and before you know it | | | | Therapeutic Touch. He was a black and white |
| you can easily become overrun with furry felines. My | | | | Domestic Short Hair, quite small for a male and quite |
| numbers became so great at one point I had to bite | | | | thin seemingly by nature as he did have a good |
| the bullet and have mass spaying and neutering done. | | | | appetite. His name was Andy. Andy was strange in |
| From that point on the numbers started to cut back | | | | that once when I was in picture taking mode and |
| to within reason. The irony was that the ones that I | | | | snapped a photo of him it developed with a definite |
| lost first were my favorites and most of these | | | | glow surrounding him. This prompted me to assess |
| losses were not due to attrition but due to getting | | | | him as one does in the TT procedure and found that |
| killed on the road. I never was able to figure out why | | | | his energy field was quite phenomenal. It was then I |
| getting them fixed made them more prone, it | | | | discovered that Andy really liked a TT treatment so |
| seemed, to meeting an untimely death. | | | | much so that whenever I performed Therapeutic |
| After becoming interested in Therapeutic Touch (TT) | | | | Touch on anyone in the family Andy would appear |
| all of my animals that is the horses, the dogs and the | | | | and lie close by awaiting his turn. |
| cats all became fair game for me to practice my new | | | | Over the years I have actually performed |
| found healing talents. I found that the cats usually | | | | Therapeutic Touch more on my animals then I have |
| responded quite differently to energy work then did | | | | on humans. Of all of my animals the cats proved to |
| the dogs and horses. As with the other animals some | | | | be both the most challenging and the most rewarding |
| took to it very readily and seemed to thoroughly | | | | because usually with the other animals a practitioner |
| enjoy it while others, being "cats" wanted no part of | | | | is able to win them over but I have not found this to |
| it, "thank you very much." This did not surprise me, | | | | be so with the cats. Dear little Andy was indeed the |
| as cats seem to have a way of being entities unto | | | | exception. |
| themselves much more so than other animals. Some | | | | |