News of the Feline Type
Biggest news lately:
Cats!
Two new cats, one from a shelter, one from a rescue. Both female. (And by "new," I mean a month or two.)
Christopher Variant, just under a year old (shelter's best guess):
She likes to help me assemble Ikea stuff. Mostly by laying on it. She lays on pretty much everything, in fact, including the *edge* of cage panels prior to assembly. There are some CV-lying-on-things pictures in my Flickr, but there are many many more I haven't uploaded yet.
And this is Lotus, right about one year old:
Lotus came from a feral colony. She was picked up during a trap-neuter-release operation, and was almost put back into the colony, but one of the volunteers thought she might be homable. (Is that a word?) She was a few months old at the time, maybe 4 or 5, and went to live at the rescue's shelter. They were very patient with her, and got her to the point where she was comfortable with the shelter people. She's still very skittish around other people, though, and when I first met her a month ago, she hid.
But she's been here in our little world for a month now, and has come far. She'd always gotten along with other cats, so there were no problems between her and Katherine or Christopher Variant when I finally made the introductions. But since I'm a humanoid, she kept her distance from me for a while.
(She also terrified me the second day I had her: I went into the kitchen, which was her sealed-off room, and could not find her. Nearly panicked - I've been entrusted with this beautiful cat, and within two days, I've lost her! :P Finally noticed her on top of the kitchen cabinets, just staring at me. Ceiling cat monks live in remote monastery.)
We've gotten to the point now where she eats treats from my hand, doesn't run away when I walk near her, and sits beside me and sniffs my face when she thinks I'm asleep. She's not cuddly, and is still skittish about being petted, but that's ok. I don't want to rush anything. I'm just thrilled she doesn't hide from me any more. :)
Cats!
Two new cats, one from a shelter, one from a rescue. Both female. (And by "new," I mean a month or two.)
Christopher Variant, just under a year old (shelter's best guess):
She likes to help me assemble Ikea stuff. Mostly by laying on it. She lays on pretty much everything, in fact, including the *edge* of cage panels prior to assembly. There are some CV-lying-on-things pictures in my Flickr, but there are many many more I haven't uploaded yet.
And this is Lotus, right about one year old:
Lotus came from a feral colony. She was picked up during a trap-neuter-release operation, and was almost put back into the colony, but one of the volunteers thought she might be homable. (Is that a word?) She was a few months old at the time, maybe 4 or 5, and went to live at the rescue's shelter. They were very patient with her, and got her to the point where she was comfortable with the shelter people. She's still very skittish around other people, though, and when I first met her a month ago, she hid.
But she's been here in our little world for a month now, and has come far. She'd always gotten along with other cats, so there were no problems between her and Katherine or Christopher Variant when I finally made the introductions. But since I'm a humanoid, she kept her distance from me for a while.
(She also terrified me the second day I had her: I went into the kitchen, which was her sealed-off room, and could not find her. Nearly panicked - I've been entrusted with this beautiful cat, and within two days, I've lost her! :P Finally noticed her on top of the kitchen cabinets, just staring at me. Ceiling cat monks live in remote monastery.)
We've gotten to the point now where she eats treats from my hand, doesn't run away when I walk near her, and sits beside me and sniffs my face when she thinks I'm asleep. She's not cuddly, and is still skittish about being petted, but that's ok. I don't want to rush anything. I'm just thrilled she doesn't hide from me any more. :)