Dear Human 💕,

You are complaining about how that human has been treating you. Meow. They’ve been acting like a feral cat. But while you can’t control how other humans behave, you can teach them how you want to be treated.

Not with a lecture. Not with a manual.

You might not realize it, but you are teaching others how to treat you all the time with everything you do, say, ask for, let go . . . and with what you don’t let go.

🐾 When you treat yourself well, you teach others (and yourself) that you deserve to be treated well.

🐾 The way you treat other humans  teaches how you want humans to be treated. You set the bar. You don’t have to accept being treated any differently.

🐾You teach others humans what you need or want by telling them. Humans are terrible at mind reading. So, don’t assume ‘they should know’ or that they will figure it out. That usually doesn’t work out. So, let them know.

🐾When you speak up about what doesn’t work for you, you teach where the line is. 

🐾 When you don’t speak up, you teach it’s okay.

Think about it.

What do you want to teach the other humans?

How do you want to be treated?

Yours,
Cat 🐾

P.S. I taught you that I like rough chin scratches and gentle belly rubs, and that I don’t put up with anyone disturbing my afternoon nap. I didn’t just hope you’d figure it out. I made it very clear.