Just Pass Me By

I love my cat, Otis. He is a 20 pound male, he is black and white and reminds me of cow patches. I got him almost 10 yrs ago from the Humane Society. When i first got him, Otis hide from everything, he’d only come out while I was sleeping. Before me he wasn’t treated very well by his other owners. Even though, Otis has turned out to be a loving and gentle cat. He has a motherly nature, gets alone with some the small pets I have had.

I have asthma, and sometimes it flares up at night. Shortly after I got Otis he would bit me on the noise at night when I was starting to have troubles breathing. I really didn’t think a lot of it. At first I thought  he just woke me up for attention.  I have had several asthma flare ups at nights in the last 10 years, and almost every single one he has woke me up, before I wake up from it.

In the middle of the night last night, Otis did his bird meow to wake me up before jumping up with me. It seems the cat has now starting figuring out when I am having nightmares. I don’t know what i will do with out Otis.

When my husband is sick Otis watches over him too. I think it is amazing how cats just seem to know when their owners need them.