orichalcum

Don't get me wrong, I've got nothing against cats. I'm a dog person through and through, but I can respect people who like cats, and I know some perfectly nice and sweet cats, like my brother's Nem and Reyn's Mr. Cuddles.

I'm a little befuddled, however, by my subconscious giving me a frequently repeated dream or dream variation in which I have accidentally been saddled with one or more kittens and then must take care of them and do a bad job at it. I mean, yes, the symbolism's obvious, but why kittens? Last night, it was a baby lion who had wandered up to me and settled in my lap after I saw its parents behaving badly, and I took it home, and A. said we couldn't keep it, because what about M., and dealing with the claws, and so forth? And so I said I'd take it back out into the woods and leave it there, but A. said lions didn't belong in the woods, they belonged in the savannah, and we couldn't just abandon it. And then I noticed that from being inside it was losing its winter fur and it would be cold out there anyways, so I put it in a onesie and laid it in a crib next to Mac's and tried to figure out how to get it back to the savannah before it imprinted on me.

Why can't I dream about puppies?