P-22, the majestic mountain lion of Griffith Park, died a week before Christmas, at the age of about 12. As one mourner at his memorial service commented, P-22 was “far more beloved than most actual celebrities in Los Angeles.”
proposed that the structure would be more aptly named the P-22, in keeping with the quirky local habit of attaching the definite article to freeways.
I have been thinking about P-22 lately because my husband and I had to say goodbye to a much smaller cat—a fourteen-year-old Abyssinian named. Abyssinians are among the liveliest of domestic breeds, svelte and leonine in appearance. Bea, true to form, darted around our home as if it were a fascinating and vaguely fraught patch of tundra. Cats are often said to reveal their personalities subtly, over time.
The comedy of catness lies in the juxtaposition of organically sinuous movement with the drab rectangularity of human habitation. Watching cats, you become conscious of the artificiality of our environments. Carpets, for example: Bea never cared for them and studiously walked around them. P-22 had a similar estranging effect on the streets adjoining Griffith Park.
How happy was Bea? We were never sure. She appeared to delight in our company, yet she experienced a fair degree of anxiety, bordering on neurosis. She had periodic fits, storming around in a hyperventilating blur. Her stress subsided when we moved from an apartment to a house. Likewise, people wondered about P-22’s quality of life. Forty-two hundred acres would seem to be plenty of space, but it’s actually a tenth of the size of the typical puma habitat.
Ultimately, like much of the population, P-22 seemed to be making do with what he had. His crawl-space sit-in, which dominated the local news media for a couple of days, felt like a moment of accommodation. In the face of feeble attempts to get him to move—lights were flashed, sticks were waved, a tennis-ball cannon was deployed—P-22 stared out with an imperturbable expression that members of cat households recognized instantly.
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