关于猫的记忆力
[原文：veronakiss] 2007-09-24, 10:40 PM
Many years ago I adopted two kittens a couple of months apart. We named them Sissy and Myron. They were very close, and when one was missing the other was frantic.
Sissy used to climb up into a hole which led to a space beneath the rafters from under the basement stairs. The hole was too small for Myron, so he used to sit below the hole for hours on the floor, crying, until she came out and joined him again. Sissy died at the age of five of a congenital illness.
For days Myron wandered the house, sat below the stairs, crying for her. Then he seemed to forget. We got other cats for him to be with. Life moved on.
Twelve years later, I heard Myron crying below that little hole. He hadn\’t done that since Sissy died. I went down there to get him, and he just gazed at me, crying. I picked him up and took him back upstairs, shutting the door behind me.
He sat at the shut door for the rest of the day. Just sat there, sniffing at the bottom of the door, or hitting the door knob trying to get back into the basement. The next day he was very weak. He died a few days later of kidney disease which we had been treating him for for about two years.
In my experience, cats can remember for a lifetime.
如果猫的记忆没有那么短，pluto一定记得我的。
翻译：
很多年前，我收养了两只才2个月大就离开了母猫的小猫，给他们取名“Sissy’ and ‘Myron”。他们很亲密，其中一个要是不见了另外一只就会抓狂；
Sissy习惯于爬进通往地下室的楼梯间中有空隙的洞里，对于Myron来说洞太小，所以他经常坐在洞口叫几个小时，直到Sissy再次出来和他一起玩。Sissy在5岁的时候就因为先天的疾病去世了；
接下来好几天，Myron都徘徊在在房子里，在那个楼梯下的小洞叫喊着Sissy。后来，它似乎忘记了（Sissy的死亡），我们（抱养了）另外一只猫给它做伴。日子就这样一天天过去。
12年后，我突然听到Myron在小洞前叫喊，自从Sissy死后他都没有这样过了。我跑到楼下找到了它，它盯着我，一直叫。我抱起它带它到楼上，随手关上门。
那之后他一直坐在那里嗅门的底部，或者挠门的把手设法开门去地下室；第二天我突然发现他好消瘦；几天后它因肾疾病死去，它的肾病我们一直治疗了2年。
在我的经验，猫的记忆力是终生的。