The queen of my household celebrates
Give a warm birthday cuddle to Noki, 17 years today. <3
Click through for extra fluff. And you can still see the traces of that scar in the middle of her nose from when she ripped a bit of it off on Christmas Eve. I'm glad it's healing now, going back to its normal liquoriceness!
...that pic may look awkward, but she actually loves to push her head forwards like that when I'm scritching her mane under the chin (I'm doing a sign of the horns there, sort of, so it's a very metal way to scritch a cat). Some people are shocked at how hard I scritch her, but that's on Noki's insistence, because if you don't really dig your fingers in, she pushes herself against your hand and demands more. I think it's because her fur is so thick and so layered that she wants you to reach her skin for a proper scritch, and that takes a bit of digging.
She's been really bad with the dementia-induced caterwauling and yowling recently, though :/ Even the antidepressants the vet gave her don't help all that much, and the other day, she woke me up four times with random yowling in the bathroom and kitchen. She seems to get very confused several times a day and just break out into crying (and these short, querying noises with a rising note, as if she's trying to ask me something) when there's no reason, poor thing. In addition to that, she sometimes gets random bursts of happiness, too, though: I've sometimes heard her randomly purring at something, and when I've gone to look, she's sat in the middle of the room just staring into the distance and purring loudly about something, just really happy and excited about something only she can see. (It's Connie, isn't it... molesting even my cat in the night...)
So, yeah, poor thing. But she is getting lots of love and cuddles and I'm hoping the nephew and niece will pop over later today to give her some much-needed cuddling. Dad's bringing the kids over (my sister's allergic so she can't bring them herself), so if four people's cuddles won't be enough to top her up so that she won't need to randomly cry today, it'd be great.
But, yeah. I think 17 is like... 95 in human years or so, so this is one mighty old dame right here. She deserves all the cuddles!
Click through for extra fluff. And you can still see the traces of that scar in the middle of her nose from when she ripped a bit of it off on Christmas Eve. I'm glad it's healing now, going back to its normal liquoriceness!
...that pic may look awkward, but she actually loves to push her head forwards like that when I'm scritching her mane under the chin (I'm doing a sign of the horns there, sort of, so it's a very metal way to scritch a cat). Some people are shocked at how hard I scritch her, but that's on Noki's insistence, because if you don't really dig your fingers in, she pushes herself against your hand and demands more. I think it's because her fur is so thick and so layered that she wants you to reach her skin for a proper scritch, and that takes a bit of digging.
She's been really bad with the dementia-induced caterwauling and yowling recently, though :/ Even the antidepressants the vet gave her don't help all that much, and the other day, she woke me up four times with random yowling in the bathroom and kitchen. She seems to get very confused several times a day and just break out into crying (and these short, querying noises with a rising note, as if she's trying to ask me something) when there's no reason, poor thing. In addition to that, she sometimes gets random bursts of happiness, too, though: I've sometimes heard her randomly purring at something, and when I've gone to look, she's sat in the middle of the room just staring into the distance and purring loudly about something, just really happy and excited about something only she can see. (It's Connie, isn't it... molesting even my cat in the night...)
So, yeah, poor thing. But she is getting lots of love and cuddles and I'm hoping the nephew and niece will pop over later today to give her some much-needed cuddling. Dad's bringing the kids over (my sister's allergic so she can't bring them herself), so if four people's cuddles won't be enough to top her up so that she won't need to randomly cry today, it'd be great.
But, yeah. I think 17 is like... 95 in human years or so, so this is one mighty old dame right here. She deserves all the cuddles!