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World Cat Day is celebrated on 8 August.
August 8 2018
They say that those who do not like these animals simply have not met their pet. And, judging by the feedback from the owners, this is true.
Unlike many travel lovers, I am absolutely happy in the perimeter of my home. And, of course, the house is not only devoted to each other owners, but also our adored pets, namely the small, but very elegant Naomi Rosenthal, who allows all households to call themselves simply Nyusya or Sniff. I have long dreamed of having a cat at home, while my husband (singer Leonid Agutin – Approx. “Antenna”) did not share this desire. However, in the end I put the squeeze on him. Nyusya is a charming representative of the Singaporean breed, which I chose not by chance. I was looking for a cat among the smallest breeds, of which there were not so many. One of them was Singaporean, with many benefits, including animal temperament. And when I read that the color of these cats is called sepia agouti, I realized that this is fate.
True, when I saw a three-month fluffy little thing in the nursery, I realized that I would need to go on maternity leave for at least six months to grow this creature. So I decided to give up the idea for a while, but before leaving, the hostess allowed me to take pictures with the kittens, and I posted several photos on my social network. Thanks to information from one subscriber, I learned about my fan Svetlana Rosenthal in Penza, whom I begged to give me a kitty a little over a year old. So in 2014, Singapore Naomi Rosenthal appeared in our family. Smell by that time managed to be “married” and even become a mother. In addition, she was a multiple champion of exhibitions, traveled a lot, but nevertheless, moving from one family to another became stressful for her. She got used to us and her new home for about a week. All this time I was very worried, feeling that I had committed a crime by persuading the hostess to give up to me to Scent. But one night, when I was quietly crying into my pillow, she suddenly jumped onto the bed, settled on my stomach and purred. I was relieved to realize that I was forgiven, and from that moment our love became mutual.
We changed the pretentious name Naomi to Scent, because we have her very simple, contact, participates in all household chores, from cooking to makeup, and everywhere pokes her curious nose. However, at the same time, she is sensitive and delicate. If he understands that he is interfering, then he goes to his place. When Lenya and I sit down to dinner, she makes one attempt to join us and jumps into my lap. I set her down carefully. Scent never makes a second try, but patiently waits for her to be called. Everyone loves her – both friends and guests visiting the house for the first time. Due to its small size, people who do not know about this breed often mistake it for a kitten. Therefore, even the so-called kotophobes do not feel fear looking at her. Scent is a very sociable, affectionate kitty. He immediately jumps on his knees to many guests, makes his acquaintance, purrs. Since I spend more time with Sniff than all the other family members, feed her more often than my husband, and do all her cat affairs, then naturally she considers me the mistress. But she also feels tenderness to her husband, as to a man, and loves to watch TV with him in the evenings.
I myself used to be afraid of cats. When I left for Moscow to go to college, my mother, in order to somehow compensate for my absence, got a black cat named Athos, who loved only her. He did not pay attention to me and did not even allow me to iron. My friends also had a cat, Kostik, to whom I was instinctively afraid to approach. Now I understand that you need to “grow” to a cat. Usually the need to have a pet arises during difficult periods of life. This is confirmed by the experience of my mother, and the experience of many friends, and my own. When my dad passed away, I felt that if I didn’t get a cat, I would just die. And I am absolutely sure that it was Sniff that cured me of six months of depression. I periodically post photos and videos on my pages in Nyukhina’s social networks. I like the reaction of our feline Internet community – everyone sends back photos of their pets and tells about them in the comments. You feel like a member of some noble order. Often in the comments they write to me that Sniff and I are alike. I don’t know about her, but it flatters me. When my husband and I fly away on tour, my assistant Nadya stays with Sniff. We’ve known her for almost 20 years, and all these years she has been helping me take care of my home. So I trust her unconditionally. Yes, and they have a great mutual sympathy with Sniff. On the International Day of Cats, I would like to wish the readers of Antenna just to love my pets, and in gratitude they will rid your house of negativity and fill it with good emotions, warmth, comfort and harmony.
Daria Poverennova, actress
Cats accompany me all my life. Mom instilled love for them. The first cat appeared when I was four years old. He lived for 9 years. Then there was another one. He died at the age of 15. Now my daughter Polina (she will turn 26 in August, graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University named after Lomonosov – note “Antenna”) has two cats. One is 10 years old, and the other is four years old. Since I am outside the city in the summer, I brought my cats to the fresh air: 11-year-old Busya and 10-year-old Iva. Just a few days ago, we had a funny story. Busya loves to walk outside, lie on the grass under the sun … Nature is her element. It seems that furry friends are very brave: they catch mice, try to survive in difficult conditions. But our Busya is afraid of a thunderstorm. When lightning began to flash, thunder struck, a downpour fell, she huddled in a corner under the barn. I went there several times, talked to her, tried to get her. She didn’t want to go out. When the thunderstorm stopped in the evening, she again went to her with an umbrella and a flashlight. She, apparently, from my intonation understood that I was worried about her, had mercy and jumped into her arms. In general, we have a complete understanding with cats. For example, Iva comes to me every night, loves to fall asleep next to me. Although you cannot say from her that she can show tenderness, since during the day she behaves quite freely. And Busya – on the contrary. He tries to be with me during the day. Sometimes he likes to jump on a swing and swing. I look at my cats and think that in a past life they were probably human.
I love all animals. It so happened that I have a special relationship with cats. I really miss the cat Klaus. He passed away two years ago. He appeared quite unexpectedly. I had a German friend. He left somewhere and left the cat for me to overexpose. The fluffy handsome man was then called Vanya. For some reason, the German did not return for the animal, and we gave him a new name – Klaus. The cat has become our family member. He could safely be called an extraordinary and independent person. Klaus was constantly interested in the world around him. He loved to explore everything. I had to go everywhere and see everything. For example, I climbed to the topmost drawer of a kitchen unit and was there as long as I wanted. It was impossible to get him out of there. Firstly, it was high, we physically could not get the cat. Secondly, he did not respond. When someone asked: “Where is Klaus?”, We jokingly replied that at the dacha. By the way, he preferred to drink from an aquarium or from a crystal vase, since he was not very attracted to his drinker. It was really funny when I put a low vase for him. After that we called him an esthete and a poet. He lived with us for 18 years. We buried him quietly at night in the “Neskuchny Garden”. When we go there for a walk, we go to visit. I’m not going to have any animal yet. They are no different from children. If you can, let’s say, toss them to your grandmother, then with animals it will be problematic. Now I have a great desire – to travel the world. Until 20 years later I settle somewhere, I will not associate life with a pet.
Viktor Rybin, leader of the Dune group, and Natalya Senchukova, singer
With us lives the home tricolor Lusya, a common average European breed. It was presented by our goddaughter Masha for my birthday. Before that, I had a cat Donut, he died at the age of 16. I suffered a lot when he was gone. They didn’t have a pet for a long time. Vitya said that before we had grandmothers, and now there is no one to leave the cat with in case of our departure. And then my goddaughter announced that she was preparing a surprise. Vitya thought that a puppy was waiting for us, and was even indignant that they had brought them without warning: they say, you can’t give it anyway! And I say that you can have a cat. Let’s go and pick her up. And he was the first to name her Lucy after the heroine of the film of the same name with Scarlett Johansson.
They took the three-month old woman, then she had a tummy ache. We also treated her. As a coward, she remained the same. Lyusechka is a compact, good kitty. In July she turned 4 years old. When we thought about what breed to get a cat, we chose a healthy one. Here are Maine Coons – cores, because they are big and nervous. And so any breed would suit us, but what they gave, they gave it.
We adore her, and she loves me to the point of impossibility. Follows me with a tail and does not leave my slippers. As soon as I take them off – and she already lies, hugs, sleeps on them. We call her Lyuska Tapkina. She also loves Victor, as he says: “She climbed on me twice.” But so basically it lies with me, something childish remained in her.
She’s afraid of everything, coward. The new is very carefully considered. Loves to stare at birds. Previously, she rarely sang, but now she has learned to sing. Sometimes she runs out into the street, but we always catch up with her, because we are afraid no matter what happens. She thinks that this is a continuation of the house, and does not suspect that there are many dangerous things there. Carries the ball, rushes with everything he sees. Well, smart and cunning. Rubs her nose with our second cat, Santochka, a Neva Masquerade breed that lives on the street. They do not fight, each knows its place: one in the house, and the other lives in the yard. Santa herself came to us. Perhaps she got lost and found a new home – ours. I often call her into the room, she will come in, look and leave – she is fine on the street. But she’s smart – she doesn’t run far. This is how she settled and lives. She has good neighborly relations with Lyusya, no one offends anyone. And somehow Santa became a mother and brought us five kittens! And we gave them all!
Lucy sleeps with me. Sometimes he cuddles and leaves, sleeps somewhere, comes again. And I am not one of those cat-lovers who are said to have a brick on their chests at night, they will be afraid to move, thinking that it is a cat. I don’t stand on ceremony with her. She doesn’t bother, doesn’t wake us up, doesn’t ask for food, doesn’t torture us. She ate everything for up to a year, and then she became picky. We weigh ourselves with her once every two months so that she does not get better. We are not going to multiply the cat family, because we are carving out time for vacation, and someone needs to sit with them. Usually my brother Igor does this, but now he is undergoing treatment at sea. So we are waiting for his return. He is disabled, but he is always ready to look after Lyusya, and she – for him. We also have an assistant, Lyudmila Afanasyevna, the former nanny of Vasya’s son, who is already 19 years old. When Vasya was little, he was afraid of Donut the cat – he was a big man. But when he was gone, he cried.
Cats are not just healers, they are wizards, Martians. Of course, silk carpets and furniture are affected. But we are not rags, we do not prioritize the interior. Cats give 95% of the positive, and 5% go to the destruction of furniture. We wish the readers of Antenna that cats will always cheer them up. Love and pity them, because they are so small and fragile, although when they are harmful, they become like reinforcement – do not bend. So these are the Martians who came and loved us. We wish everyone to be loved by cats!
I love to spend my free time with a cat. Seriously, I would spend all day with him in bed if work allowed. Kusya loves to be my pillow. He also likes to put on a bag like a robe and run around the apartment like that, bouncing off the walls. He loves food, shoe boxes. He still sucks on my finger because he was taken away from his mother too early, even though he is already three years old. He can attack in the middle of the night, and then sleep all day (he has learned the meaning of life: this is a dream). And when I returned after a two-week vacation, which last August happened to me for the first time in 18 years, he was so bored that he did not leave me for two days, rattled like a tractor and every time I approached the door, he sat in front of it, blocking way for me.
The difficulties that are associated with the maintenance of an animal cannot be compared with how much joy and pleasure it brings me. He and his brothers-sisters were lucky: a good man took them to him and gradually distributed them into good hands. And I was lucky that I got it! First, he’s impossibly handsome. Secondly, he stole my heart, took up all my time, turned me into a lisping mother, occupied our bed and poured it on a blanket a couple of times. And he is also absolute happiness. A mongrel cat, but from a very intelligent theatrical family, his mother lived at the Maly Theater. I am his absolute slave. He’s my superman. I let Kusa do absolutely everything: even sometimes mark my sneakers. And our love is mutual: he follows me around the apartment with his tail, like a dog, and not an independent creature. I remember him as a very tiny kitten, and now he has grown into a huge cat. Now I understand that I really want the second, but in thought, who is better to take: another boy or a girl.
Roxana Babayan, singer and actress
Since childhood, I adore all animals, but cats are my main love. Mom told me that my first word was “kitty”. We lived in warm Tashkent, and there were many cats in the yard. I saved up money, which was given for ice cream, and bought them food. By the way, even now stray cats live in our courtyard on the Arbat, which are fed by all the inhabitants of the house. There is a gray-white cat-silent, a beautiful black kitten with kittens. On the Arbat, rats walk in droves, and cats are orderlies, they catch them, they also bring them to us to show that they are not eating their bread in vain. We had cats at home all the time. I am for mongrels. The cat I have now just turned seven years old. As a very small kitten in the fall, someone threw her out into the schoolyard. Adults and children walked by, and the kitten was dying. Fortunately, the baby was picked up by a volunteer and the kitten was taken to the shelter. And from there – to us with Mikhail Mikhailovich Derzhavin (the wife of the actress died in January of this year. – Approx. “Antenna”). She has an incredible movement speed, and Micah Mich gave her the nickname Bullet. Soon she grew into a beauty with tassels on her ears, she has Maine Coon ancestors, and she began to weigh seven kilograms. Our cats have never understood “kitty-kitty”, they are all smart. I’ll say, “Let’s go wash.” The bullet will raise its eyes, then lower it, hold it slightly with its tail, which means I agree. Micah Micah she treated. I immediately felt when his pressure rose, ran, lay down next to him, and attached his paw and tail on him. Mikhail Mikhailovich also loved her very much.
What pets do you have?
Angelica Agurbash, singer:
– The youngest son Anastas (he will turn 14 in August) has long wanted a turtle, and now the godmother fulfilled his dream. They called it Cheburashka. The first days the child fed and bathed her himself, was very happy. And then it burned out, and now the eldest daughter Dasha (she is 20 years old) is engaged in the turtle.
Djigan, singer:
– Together with my wife, they gave our princess Ariela (married to Oksana Samoilova, the musician has three daughters: Ariela is 7 years old, Leia will be 4 years old in September, and the youngest, Maya, is 4 months old. – Approx. “Antenna”) for the third birthday of chimpanzees. Life in the house has become even more fun, because we already have a spitz and a rabbit.
Olga Cabo, actress:
– Stallion Patron. I love to work with him, I do everything myself – mine, comb, feed. Horses have a body temperature several degrees higher than humans, and touching such a pet is extremely pleasantly warming. And riding it is a real dance!
Danila Kozlovsky, actor:
– This winter I rested in the Kazbegi mountains. A few hours before the New Year, they spotted a puppy with Olya Zueva on the track and picked it up to attach it. Yes, they loved it so much that they kept it for themselves. Georgia, or affectionately Pear, is an incredibly sensitive, loyal, gentle and kind dog. There is no better animal than something that you save from dislike and uselessness.
Alexander Ovechkin, hockey player:
– Seven years ago my friend Andrey Grigoriev-Apollonov took and gave me a sheep! I was shocked! But he did not abandon the animal, he called Byash. However, she is uncomfortable living with me in Washington, so she lives with her parents in a dacha in the suburbs. I’m thinking about opening a farm after finishing my career.
Oksana Fedorova, TV presenter:
– Parrot Sarah, with whom the cat Bagheera peacefully neighbors. We love watching them with the whole family! By the way, our cat is a good fellow, in the spring it took first place at the exhibition. And most importantly, they found a groom for her.