APPLIED HUMAN CAT CARE
Week 11
Keeping the Nest#
What does personalised care require after the model has already been built, tested, and repaired?
CARE MODEL · MAINTENANCE OPENED
MIRA CARE RECORD v1.6: repair filed back into long-term care
not finished — maintained
A nest is maintained, not finished.#
A care model that was useful yesterday still needs attention today.
reviewed W9
updated W10
still true?
Maintenance is more than accumulation#
More history does not automatically mean a healthier model.
KEEP ADDING — new memories, new preferences, new routines, new failures
thicker ≠ wiser
MAINTAIN — check: old assumptions; prune: inactive traces; revise: changed patterns; preserve: useful failures
connected, not just collected
What needs maintaining?#
Maintenance is a care practice, not just a storage policy.
OLD ASSUMPTIONS — Still true?
MEMORY — Keep, hold lightly, or let expire?
ROUTINES & CONVENTIONS — Still active?
REPAIRED FAILURES — What did this failure teach the model?
UNCERTAINTY — Still genuinely unknown?
not a software checklist
Mira’s nest has history#
The history is useful because it is connected — not because every old note still has equal authority.
MIRA CARE RECORD · ACCUMULATED
not equal authority
OLD PREFERENCE — quiet decompression after hard days — conditional now
ROUTINE — Friday late-night check-in — review: inactive?
SHARED CONVENTION — “nest” = ordinary care space — kept
W9 FAILURE — agent gave space when Mira asked for company — trace retained
W10 UPDATE — check current request before old pattern — model v1.6
UNCERTAIN — is this a new stable pattern? — watch next time
Some things stay. Some things fade.#
Pruning is part of care: the history stays, but its authority changes.
STILL ACTIVE — asks directly when she wants company — recent useful pattern
NEEDS REVIEW — quiet decompression after hard days — still useful, but conditional
NO LONGER USEFUL — Friday late-night check-in — routine no longer happens
prune authority, not history
Repairs should leave traces#
If you erase the failure completely, you also erase the reason the model changed.
OLD RULE — space first
FAILURE — asked for company; got space
REPAIR — named the miss
UPDATED MODEL — check current request first
TRACE RETAINED — why v1.6 exists — archived as useful evidence
A repaired failure should not disappear from the record.
Continuity is a practice, not a state#
There is no final version. The model stays useful by remaining revisable.
CHECK — old assumptions
MIRA CARE MODEL v1.6 — maintained, not complete
CARRY FORWARD — useful traces
PRUNE — inactive routines
UPDATE — changed patterns
A nest is made of repeated things.
Continuity is a practice, not a state.#
Knowing a cat means continuing to notice what has changed, what still matters, and what you still do not know.
KEPT — what still helps
REVISED — what changed
STILL UNKNOWN — what remains open
NEXT WEEK · KNOW YOUR CAT