Pet cat guest eaters/Carlos Pueblo

Pet cat guest eaters/Carlos Pueblo

Christine, my pet dog friend Forest’s owner, feeds 5 pet cats on her driveway. She

also feeds squirrels, quails, and various birds on her driveway. I also find another

lady neighbor feeds practices the same habit on the other street. I mention an old

legend of guest eaters on the famous, the story of history by Shi Ma-chien on the

stories of 4 princes fed more than 3000 guest eaters during the War State Era before

the first Chinese Dynasty. They fed almost every one came to their residences for

shelters while these cats come to both houses for their daily meals without any

purposes for both cases. There were several incidents recorded by Shi about the

contributions of those guest eaters to help those princes to defend their owner’s

States against the eventual first Emperor of China, yet, both of my neighbors would

not expecting any return from their guest eaters.

Christine explains that 4 of her guest eaters are from her neighbors, Oreo and Lucy

are from the same home as Lily, the one answers my whistle, clap, and call. Lily

doesn’t come to eat with the other two. Floppy is a gray cat which comes in early

in the morning. Cats are usually have their own home, yet they come in once in a

while to take Christine’s offer and some are regular. She can identifies the new

comer who might be a lost one from the owner’s moving away. She hangs three

stylish strays on the fence for squirrels and birds guest eaters.

Joe is our neighbor on a street north of us. He likes to grow tomato, all kinds of

Tomato, and basil for his Italian cuisines. Joe’s wife keeps 9 cats at home, 2

guest eaters and 7 adopted eventually. She prepares 7 trays outside every

evening and two inside for insiders. I sometimes received tomato from Joe and

curiously asked him how he could avoid the squirrels and birds. He said that

he got help from cats and also pointed out that would be Yin and Yang, a

Chinese philosophy which meant the balance of cats and fruits invaders.

During my living in Taiwan, I had learned two similar stories about guest eaters

or similar situation passing on to the society including an experience involving

myself. During my sophomore year at the college, my Dad asked me to meet him

at a clinic to visit his boss at work. He had a by-pass or minor stroke and required

to an operation by a surgeon whom he helped during the great exodus in 1949

from China. He helped this youngster to complete the medical school similar to

the guest eater situation in history.

I was a guest eater during my high school and thereafter before my leaving of

Taiwan. My adopted mother was a classmate of mine at the elementary school.

His mother was a Manchurian physician and very generous to youngsters like

me to provide good meals when time was very tough.