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I used to dislike cats in the past and I don’t really know why. I guess it is maybe because cats are not as friendly as dogs. Or maybe because dog lovers can never be cat lovers both at the same time. Is this a myth? Probably, it is a myth that forces people to choose either cats or dogs.

I started to like cats after I had teased a cat out of boredom last year. This cat is black and white in colour. She always hangs around at the HDB multi-storey car park where I park my car near my house. The cat has been living there since two years ago but I only get close to her recently. I called her ArMeow.

Let me recall how I know ArMeow and how we have become good friends. On a fine Sunday, I was walking towards the staircase after I had parked my car. I turned back and noticed that a black and white stray cat was staring at me. I teased the cat by calling her “Meow Meow”. To my surprise, the cat was running towards me. I was very frightened to see the cat approaching me. Then, I started to make the dog sound : “Woof Woof”. To my surprise again, the cat stopped running immediately.

I was very delighted to see the cat had stopped running. Again, I started to call her “Meow Meow”. As expected, the cat started to run towards me again. Then, I mischieviously repeated the “Meow Meow” here and “Woof Woof” there several times until the cat was running near. I was so frightened and thought that the cat would come and scratch me so I ran away as quickly as I could as if I was running for my life.

A few days later, I went to the car park to get my car. ArMeow – the black and white stray cat appeared suddenly and gave me a shock. I was worrying that she might harm me but she didn’t. She leaned her body against my legs and instantly I can feel that the cat likes me. I found that the cat was cute and lovely when I looked into her dark round eyes. This was the moment that I started to like cats.

ArMeow is different from other cats. She is friendly, lovely and approachable. She would run towards me and lean her body against my legs whenever she sees me at the car park. To me, ArMeow behaves more like a dog than like a cat. She is very doglike and I suspect that ArMeow might be a dog-disguised cat.

ArMeow is my good companion. She keeps me company and chases away my boredom. I like ArMeow very much. Yes, I like cats now.

It seems like a few celebrities, such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, etc. have given birth to twins lately. I’m kind of curious to find out whether the two offspring from the same pregnancy will look alike or not. Twins may look identical but not necessarily especially for human beings.

What about for animal twins? Do animal twins look identical? Ah Ha! Don’t get tricked by this question. You might answer yes to the question. In fact, the answer could be a “yes” and a “no”. It just depends on how you see things.

There is a reason as to why I asked this question. This is because it reminds me of one incident when I was a teenager many years ago. My siblings and I were watching TV news. It was then reporting a mother chimpanzee had just given birth to chimpanzee twins.

Guess what? My second elder brother was very excited and told us naively that the chimpanzee twins really looked alike. I took another glance at the chimpanzee twins and then told him bluntly : “Whether the chimpanzee babies are twins or not, they will still look identical because all species look the same”. Oh boy! I really cannot stand my brother. All monkeys do have the same monkey face, don’t they?

The rest of my siblings were bursting into laughter after hearing our conversations. My second brother was very embarrassed to hear the reasoning from a sister who is eight years younger than him. Anyway, I treat it as a joke whenever I see animal twins.