Enchanting Cats

Frankenstein’s cat is all charged up but can’t seem to keep it together

This was a suggestion from my husband, Todd. This cat’s expression looks very much like our kitty, Shisa, when I catch her by surprise and she is quite put off by it. She is the one who used to be completely feral but has come around to loving us openly, though still a little cautiously. It is as Frankenstein’s monster once said (though hopelessly):

“If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them an hundred and an hundred fold; for that one creature’s sake, I would make peace with the whole kind!”

-Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

People say that it is impossible to tame a feral cat but it is not so! It only takes one person being kind to them, over and over again until they feel safe. I know because I’ve done it!

If you have not read Frankenstein, I encourage you to do so! It is a pretty quick read and a remarkable work- a seminal piece of Science Fiction if not the very foremost example of the genre. The book’s themes are timeless and universal, but its telling seems ahead of its time. Frankenstein’s monster is not a simple shuffling beast (as in some iconic adaptations), but an angst-ridden, intelligent being that is all too human. It’s some good Halloween time reading, or anytime reading!