Feline fancy

Isis, who is at this moment curled up before me, is a tremendously eccentric small stripey cat. She once killed a raccoon, and goes for beach walks with me, so she is an atypical feline, thus deserving of analysis. She adores heights, and a bird's eye view, so anything with a branch or a beam is very very attractive. Driftwood is her preferred substrate. She is also quite ferocious, motivated, not by a hunger to devour, but rather by the desire to capture prey, to engage her bestial little carnivorous self. Isis travels well in all modes of transportation (she has been on planes, trains, trucks, and boats) without complaint so I'd like to think she is motivated by both the need to please and the quest for variety. Since she accompanies me, my husband, and our dog on walks I must assume she is also motivated by the need to belong, to be part of a pack, or perhaps some acceptance by Dune (the dog) and also the desire to explore and venture out. When we open a container of vanilla yogurt, even if she is asleep, her hearing becomes instantly supersonic and she makes her way towards the source, so I suppose she is also motivated by Dairy. I largely attribute this to the somewhat unsettling habit my husband has of "giving" her the top of the container. Isis is also motivated by warm, pillowy places which are well suited to napping, which she spends an inordinate amount of time doing. I'd like to imagine she has some epic dreams involving hummingbirds and trees that never end but I can only guess...And, of course, far too important to disregard, she is motivated by the pursuit of love, which to her involves a strange combination of heartbeats, old cashmere sweaters, and raw fish.