My cat is missing.

Jiska Hachmer
4 min readNov 6, 2019

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My cat is missing since 2 weeks ago.

Erinn, my cat, I have for more than 6 years. We got her from friends. I studied psychology her whole life and tried from the first chapters of our books till the last on her. But she wasn’t kept for science.

My kids learned to do tricks with her too, by our library kids' books. They had books on all kinds of tricks with pets, which is actually the same idea I did.

We can even ask her yes and no, and what she likes between a few options.

Her IQ is like a baby. 6 months- 9 months old. And she can play those games.

She loved to get dressed up too and play with the kids.

Erinn loved us from the first moment she saw us, it was so cute, she even showed she never wanted to go back, by going mad with her siblings. It was love at first sight.

And she loved to play games. She can do puzzles of 4 pieces. Count till 3. And choose from things. She nods her head to my hand with the option she likes. And she refuses if she doesn’t like any. She then doesn’t pick. You can also show your hand with a yes and the other with a no, and she chooses, if she understands the simple question, like want meat or fish, but then you like to fish? She can then also choose a yes if she wants.

How to do this at home?

Give options, and practice from food. Like the psychology books about how to learn pets things. Start with the food. They will eat. Then let them choose between 2. And keep it easy, like fish, meat. And when they learn to choose, which takes a while, they will be constantly clear about fish or meat.

Then you can add, chicken, fish and meat. And when the cat can understand there is choice, you could add, yes or no.

By letting the cat first choose meat or fish, by nodding to hand with that word, or can. And then without those words and cans, and just yes or no. Like a child they will make mistakes a lot too. At first more then later on… and they will learn they got what they wanted or not.

It is really a baby brain what a cat has. So it is sweet a choice, and answer, and can be wrong, so you also leave open the option of eating another meal if they stop eating and dont like it.

We also taught her to give paws.

First with food, then without. And that took super long. Years. But she can. And now she even does it for food.

We even did games, “stronger”, then she held her paw in our hands a long time, as if she is “strong”… and celebration, which is shorter. Like congrats and then let go…

She even could wear on her birthday something around her neck to show she is the bd girl, and her celebration game she d do…

She loved the most attention, and sit on us 24/7 and go along… we went outside a lot… and I took her to the zoo to see what she will do, i didn’t think the animals would respond much, but both did, and her and them… some friends, some from far distance noted her and she got scared. Others she wanted for lunch, small things, always smaller than her.

This is Erinn with monkeys that adored her, and wanted to get near her to play.

They wanted to give her their food, and toys. And a baby started this interaction and tried to climb out, to get to her. Even gets a bit mad, to the window. He wants to have her. The sibling helps, and the mommy checks on the cat, what on earth she is…

These are the Orang Utans, they are Human relatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan

But she is a special cat, loved by monkeys. ;)

They wanted to play with her.

I am learning to edit, so soon I have a bigger movie on this. But I am learning how to get the videos from the camera I used into an editing program and then edit.

And she is loved by my kids

I hope she is home soon. We wanted to travel more with her. And when my kids are back, they are stolen by the locals, we can all together to our life again, as the rest of the country and world know us. Locals showed weird things with people. And unfortunately, the cat walked away cause she misses the kids. She was so attached to them, she was depressed a while at the beginning, my children had to talk to her on the phone a lot. But now again they were scheduled to see us a week too late, then every time my cat gets weird, she can't understand it takes longer sometimes. And it is against the law, but the locals fraud in many ways, thus all the time they tried to let me see them less and less, while the system is about getting home, never away from home, and we never did anything against the laws, they did though and wanted to shut my mouth by taking my kids. I simply asked the locals the Dutch law, which others explained it was the way we had to go, the Dutch government their departments, but the locals did not want to adjust the studies, while by law my kids are not even under the study law anymore, cause they have diploma on EQF 5 level, and that law stops at EQF2. It is discrimination in education and extremely exploited by the locals. And it is even human trafficking and with help from the local judge, fully with fraud and abuse.

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