"Hissings Fits From Cats"

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LtJg Jas McCellan

Medical Officer

Log Entry

 

 

 

"Hissing from a cat can be interpreted as a sign of intrusion into its territory and/or you have done some thing very bad to tick it off."

 

Voices flooded back to my ears as I stood on Caitian soil. These voices originated in one source and one definite time, it was my sister's and it was when she was 7 years old. My, she's already 14 and her birthday is coming up in July, my, my she is going to be as old as me now. 7 years ago she told me about cats upon receiving a kitten from a kind neighbour. I remember it as if it was yesterday, or just this afternoon, the kitten hissed and clawed at me whenever i came close. What was it about me that displayed as 'foe'? I don't know, it just seems that cats and I don't get along.

 

I don't know how on Cait that this old conflict would return to haunt me, the Caitian world has been decimated by a fleet, the people were just picking up the pieces. I tried my best to help them, giving them treatments and diagnosis when and wherever possible. And how do they react to me? By hissing and clawing at me the same way that Cat did 7 years ago. This obvious had no acceptable parallels in terms of biology but I know a cat when its cornered and these Caits ... people were definitely cornered.

 

From what I've heard around these invaders have been coming around for ages, stealing supplies, food, and mostly the main population ... slaves. This of course would give new meaning to the word "animal cruelty" or perhaps I shouldn't use these words loosely, after all these caitians were advanced and enlightened.

 

I am glad that the caitians and I resolved our differences so I was successful in treating several infection-prone injuries and even saving a life, but I can't help it but to feel that cornered animals (people included) and doctors don't mix. I do hope Challenger returns to pick us back up soon, I would like to have as little contact to these people as possible and from what I've seen in their eyes, they think the same about us ...