{"id":702,"date":"2025-11-26T16:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/?p=702"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:24:56","slug":"known-as-moki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2025\/11\/26\/known-as-moki\/","title":{"rendered":"Known as Moki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Moki turned out to be a bona fide word in a few languages (Maori<\/a>?!?) but was really just a mashup of “amok” and “Loki” that came out of nowhere, just like him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will probably never know his true name. He will certainly never tell us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A previous attempt at adoption (he has a rather, ahem, chequered<\/em> past) pegged him as Mischa. At Marin Humane Society<\/a>, they called him Mission. We have no idea what his mission could have been, and he’s not likely to divulge that, either. He looks like a black cat who slid on his belly through a bit of white paint. Maybe that happened while he was on mission.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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He is, in all significant ways, the anti-Buster<\/strong>.

The inner Buster<\/a> was a tiny, needy, unable-to-fend-for-himself, loving, cuddly baby kitten. Somehow he presented as a huge, majestic, regal panther who ruled the entire world while remaining inexplicably attuned to our every mood and motion…
And Moki?
Moki manifests as an anim\u00e9 baby who needs your protection. But internally he is a self-contained, self-reliant, self-centered and indefinably competent <\/strong>beast who only occasionally tolerates any engagement, and after a few moments is too busy to notice us *<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to showing affection, he seems to follow the precept to “always leave them wanting more”, like many a great showman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to do? How to respond? We’ll just love him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s said that the Cat Distribution System gives you the cats you need and deserve. I don’t know about that, but we feel pretty lucky when he shows us he knows we’re his Home. Bemused, but lucky.<\/p>\n\n\n

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* <\/sup><\/strong>His schedule is quite regular, and important to him, and looks something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n