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There is a common misconception that people adopt cats. This is hilarious. You think you’re choosing a cat, but it’s the cat who chooses you.

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Anna de la Cruz does not particularly like animals but twice a day all the cats in the neighborhood turn up at her house to be fed.

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My eldest cat Koosi, who prefers to be called The Mighty Goddess Bast, turns 13 this week.

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Last week on a flight to Singapore I found myself discussing cats with the purser, Jacqueline Albano.

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Everyone compliments Koosi because she’s literally golden and beautiful, and coos over Mat because he’s sweet-tempered and as big as a dog, but having been pronounced ordinary-looking I do not get as much attention as I deserve.

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I’m in Iloilo. My feline masters (I have been warned — telepathically — not to refer to them as “my” cats as the pronoun implies that I own them when I am in fact possessed by them) are in “my” apartment (again enclosed in quotation marks as this implies I am master of the place when my official designation is cat dish refiller/litterbox cleaner).

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Hello, I am Koosi the cat columnist.

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My cats are miffed because I have not written about them in a long time.

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Until I invited a stray kitten to move into my apartment I had no idea how to take care of a cat. Fortunately the kitten had no idea what what it was like to be taken care of. So Koosi and I were meant for each other.

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Everyone compliments Koosi because she’s literally golden and beautiful, and coos over Mat because he’s sweet-tempered and as big as a dog, but having been pronounced ordinary-looking I do not get as much attention as I deserve.

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Hello, I am Koosi the cat columnist.

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