{"id":17197,"date":"2016-09-18T00:10:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T04:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/?p=17197"},"modified":"2022-03-25T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:30:10","slug":"zee-shares-a-gift-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/zee-shares-a-gift-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Zee Shares a Gift of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Maine<\/a>

My Zee is the epitome of a Maine Coon cat – he’s loving, loyal, and intelligent.<\/p><\/div>\n

I love Zee. He\u2019s such a sweet, gentle, and kind cat and he demonstrates his love back to me each and every day. He talks to me with his extensive meow vocabulary, he follows me around like a loyal puppy dog, and he patiently waits for me to get up off the couch at night to go to bed so he can cuddle next to me before he eventually settles in to sleep next to my head for the rest of the night. He also brings me gifts at various times of the day, such as stuffed toys dropped at my feet to show his love. But what he did this past Tuesday was so touching, thoughtful, and heartfelt it brought me to tears.<\/p>\n

When I leave work at the end of the day, I\u2019ve already had my fill of stress and I just want to be home. But before that can happen, I have to drive in bumper-to-bumper, snail\u2019s pace, rush hour traffic. Needless to say, by the time I get home, I\u2019m even more stressed out and I\u2019m not a happy camper.\u00a0The first thing I do when I get in the door, besides tripping over seven hungry cats waiting for me to feed them, is walk to my office to drop off my purse. I\u2019ve done it hundreds of times and it\u2019s never been anything to write about. But on this particular day, something caught my eye – I glanced at my desk and saw a stuffed toy sitting on top of the keyboard.<\/p>\n

And mind you, this wasn\u2019t just any stuffed toy. This was a leopard-print toy that I had made by hand in a heart shape for Zee many years ago because he’s a cat that loves, loves, loves plush toys. But before I made any assumptions, I called Dan into my office to ask if he had picked the toy up off the floor and put it on the computer. Zee has a tendency to drop\u00a0his favorite stuffed toys all over the house, so I thought maybe Dan had just found it and put it there. Nope. He did not.<\/p>\n

\"cats<\/a>

One simple gesture, one giant act of love.<\/p><\/div>\n

And that\u2019s when I burst into tears. My sweet boy had deliberately brought this\u00a0toy into my office while I was at work and placed it on top of my keyboard. I think it was his way of letting me know he missed me and wanted me home. He associates me with the computer, so by putting the toy there, he figured it would somehow cause me to materialize.\u00a0I\u2019m no scientist or behaviorist, but I know what I know.\u00a0Animals can communicate and that’s exactly what he was doing with me – his little way of letting me know he loves me.<\/p>\n

What about you all? Has anything like that ever happened with you and one of your cats?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Zee. He\u2019s such a sweet, gentle, and kind cat and he demonstrates his love back to me each and every day. He talks to me with his extensive meow vocabulary, he follows me around like a loyal puppy dog, and he patiently waits for me to get up off the couch at night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1098,3,1216,1099],"tags":[175,1224,249],"class_list":["post-17197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cat-behavior","category-inspiration-healing","category-sunday-selfie","category-the-zee-zoey-cats-and-family","tag-cat-behavior","tag-cat-communication","tag-feline-human-bond"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC_4846.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17197"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20614,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17197\/revisions\/20614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeezoey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}