The story of a cat

the beginning of the end

I was born in a majestic country called Canada, by Quebec in the great metropolis of Montreal by a place called Longueuil, I was a simple cat who had his small family in one of those apartments of large buildings that were part of that big city , I had my parents and my brothers together with me, of course without excluding our owner, who was a great geographer, he was not so well known but he earned enough to feed us daily without problems, my father and mother were mestizos, my father a tabby cat and my snow-white mother, I was a simple cat who lived perfectly in my home, every day was beautiful, a new experience ... of course, until everything started.

I remember that day with a lot of pain, I remember being with my brothers playing a little, my father was lying on the desk of our owner and my mother resting in a chair in the dining room, my owner left the bathroom in a hurry as if he had forgotten something very important, took a few things and ran, I was not surprised since he was like this, forgetful, while I took a small bath on the main sofa was watching the television which our owner had left it on, thanks to our owner all my brothers and even my parents knew how the human devices worked, at least the majority, we knew how to understand the maps by 50% since we still lacked a little.

"Is this a newscast?" I yowled as I sat down with my hind legs.
-Of course, yes, my sister mew who had climbed the couch with me
-And what are you supposed to go through here? - I said as I looked at her
I still did not know very well about the human devices at that time, but my sister could already understand them in their totality, she was the most intelligent of our litter, she had taken out the color of our father's brindle and the blue eyes of this one.
-Well, I do not know, she meowed as she came down from the sofa again -he remembers that we do not understand the French- she ended up saying while going to the kitchen
"Sure," I yelled as I continued to clean my white fur, it was like snow and I had taken out my mother's yellow eyes.

I remember that in that newscast, although I did not understand it, I mentioned that humans should stay in their homes and not leave, I understood it by the images they put on the screen.

My brothers were talking or just resting, it was a day like any other, my brother went up to the couch to talk to me, I asked him what they said on TV, why among all of us he was the only one who understood French and other languages

-What are you seeing Atlas? -he moaned as he sat next to me
-Zira says it's a newscast- I said as I leaned to the side
- But ... do you understand the French? - He asked me while watching the screen
-No, right now I was going to ask you if you could translate what they say- I said while I had my eyes fixed on the television
-By my no problem, he meowed while paying attention to what he was seeing -The human is talking about a "quarantine" in the city- he said without taking his eyes off the screen
-And why a quarantine? - Maullé while looking away from the television and saw him
-I have no idea, they're just talking about the quarantine- He told me while turning his eyes to see me

That was the first thing I knew, I still did not know that it was the end of my beautiful life.
A few hours after that, I dedicated myself to seeing our majestic city through the window of our apartment. In doing so, I saw something that had left me surprised. When I saw the street outside, I saw how a few vehicles were badly parked and with almost all its doors open, I did not give importance to the moment while paying attention to the city there in the distance, it was a great city that I wanted to visit, our owner was afraid that we were going to lose, that's why he did not take us very often , but that's why we had the necklace that he had given us, different charms, I had one that was all North America and my brothers had the other continents, Astro had the one in South America, Arias had the one in Asia, Zula had the Oceania, Zara the Africa, Zira the Europe and Zela the smallest of our litter had the Antarctic, back we had our addresses and phones but still did not take us out often.