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HawaiiPetPhotos.com is suffering through climate change. Maybe our blood is thin, now, but these cloudy April, Windward Oahu days have been cold. We have pulled out the sweat shirts to fight the morning chill. On top of the overcast, the Trades have been blowing briskly from the North.
The chill affects us all, but Sham-Rock seems most upset. In fact, he seems downright downtrodden.
Although Shammy is an indoor cat, he relishes his outside time. He starts each morning with a walk on a leash…yes, on a leash (covered in an earlier blog). Then, throughout the day, Shammy sits at the kitchen door and begs to go to the courtyard. After dinner, he gets special time outside with his Dad.
The last few days, however, the Global Cooling (my husband believes he coined that phrase, so he considers it trademarked) has kept him indoors. He has actually spent the after dinner time begging to return to the kitchen.
Does the lack of sunlight affect cats like it can affect humans? GOOGLE! I basically posed that question to the Google search engine. And, well, apparently, according to the World-Wide-Web, they can.
I read a few entries, but I hit one that had Freud in the title. Hey, I figured if they had Freud in the title, they had to know pet psychology. Sunlight stimulates hormone release that uplifts the feline mood. Gray day equals gray cat…in Shammy’s case literally and figuratively.
We need the Kahunas to start praying for some Sun, a little Global Warming if you please. (Al Gore copyrighted that one).
