Who Is the Raw Cat?
HERE IS ANOTHER cat living inside your cat. Strip away the “creature
comforts”—the cat beds, the mouse-shaped toys, a life spent looking out the window, or lying peacefully on the couch.
You might see a glimpse of that other cat when she wakes you up in the middle of the night hunting your toes under the blanket—and there you’ll find that “other” whom I call the Raw Cat. In essence, the Raw Cat is your cat’s ancestral twin. These twins, separated by aeons, are nonetheless in very close contact as if there were a tin-can-and-string telephone connecting them through their DNA strands.
Through that straight and unadulterated line, the Raw Cat sends constant transmissions to your companion about the urgency of securing territory, hunting, killing, eating and staying ever alert because just as cats hunt, they are also being hunted.
Everything about our cats, from their territorial identification and nutritional requirements to the ways they play and behave, are linked back to their raw twin. These characteristics all represent a
the shared prime objective, passed down with minor dilution, over tens of thousands of years.
In fact, when you take into consideration how many traits—both physical and behavioural—that your cat has retained from the Raw Cat, it’s safe to say that from an evolutionary standpoint, these twins are almost identical.
I’ll be asking you to tune into your cat’s rawness because that’s where Mojo lives. You’ll start to recognize when she’s tapping into her Raw Cat, and you’ll learn the importance of knowing how and where that happens.
But I also want you to have a true 360-degree perspective of her moment-to-moment actions, and that only reveals itself once we understand why the pulse of the Raw Cat beats so close to the surface.
