Assencho, the All-Seeing Eye

Assencho, the All-Seeing Eye, 😹 is a special Alpha cat.
He liked to control everything that happened in the garden (including me 😆), usually lying somewhere and pretending to be asleep, but always watching me with one eye.

As he does here, lying in his favorite place - on a thorn bush.
(Yeah, I know, I've already shown you part of this photo session before. These photos, presenting this unusual posture and situation, are not completely unknown to you.)
But now I show you the rest of the pictures, adding a new aspect to the story of this extraordinary cat.

Because Assencho the All-Seeing Eye had to be neutered, and now the Alpha Cat is without... you know.

And what sets him apart from the previous cat he was is that he has become very cowardly. He is afraid and runs away from absolutely everything, absolutely every noise in the garden and outside, even when this noise is not suspicious and dangerous with anything.

(Do you see what a model he is? He likes to pose and to be photographed and he's also very photogenic.)

Sometimes he even refuses to eat if something around seems suspicious to him. And the last time I had to deal with his fear and anxiety was when I put Frontline on his neck.
I thought I would be able to do it alone, so I held his body with one hand and applied the preparation with the other.

At that moment, however, there was a noise in the street. From there passed (as every day at that time) a man who was returning his cattle from grazing. I think our cats already know this man. As they know his cows too. So many times they met him on the street in front of the house.
But no.

Assencho received a panic attack, as if the man on the street, behind the high fence of the garden, was the most dangerous thing in the world, life-threatening, and tried to run away from me.
However, I grabbed him with both hands and then he started shaking.

He was shaking his body so hard I could barely hold it with both hands. Trying at the same time to break away from me. It was really very difficult to hold him until the man outside passed and the noise disappeared, then I continued the procedure.

You must be saying, "poor boy". Yes, I probably would have said the same thing if I hadn't watched him closely. Because this cat is full of contradictions. 😄

(After castration, Asencho seems to prefer more comfortable places to sleep, and this is how I found him with his brother recently - sleeping at the table in the garden pavilion.) 😂

He is extremely afraid of external factors, but at the same time he continues to harass his two brothers. They, in turn, are harassing him too. But they can't do it the way he does. Because he often does not leave them to eat in peace. (Of course, I have to be there and watch over them while they eat.)

When he was little, he did exactly the same thing with his brothers and sister - he literally stuck a claw in their noses if they dared to eat before he ate. So castration did not affect him in this regard.

And something else. He is hard to bear with his constant meowing in front of the kitchen door - fed or not, every time he passes in front of the kitchen, he starts meowing. And this meowing sometimes has no end.

(This is another very comfortable place to sleep now. 😺)

You know these videos of huskies constantly howling and their owners responding to them and seeming to have an endless dialogue between man and dog, sometimes even illustrated with bubbles of fictional cues.

Sometimes I do this with Assencho - I respond to his meowing by imitating him, or I just speak to him in human language. I ask him something and he answers. Then I ask him something else and he answers again. And so on indefinitely.

And in order not to accuse me that some of the photos I showed you here may look familiar to you, I promise that in the next posts I will show you Assencho's next huge photo shoot (as I told you and you could see it, he likes to be photographed) 📷😸🐈

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Happy next #CaturDay, cat lovers! 😻

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	Soul's Detour is a project started by me years ago when I had a blog about historical and not so popular tourist destinations in Eastern Belgium, West Germany and Luxembourg. Nowadays, this blog no longer exists, but I'm still here - passionate about architecture, art and mysteries and eager to share my discoveries and point of view with you.