Two-and-a-half
months, I can’t believe it. It seems like a lifetime. I wonder if the helpers in
the Limerick Animal Welfare shelter would recognise them. Especially Charlie
has grown. From a thin ferret-like tomcat he has grown into a muscly filled-out
fella. After the first few weeks with us he developed a little pouch from
eating well but being inside. Now he roams around in the garden, climbs trees
and hunts flies, mice and whatever else moves.
Tina
has developed a nice muscle tone too but is leaner than Charlie, even though
she eats like a trooper. She does a lot more running around though, even when
in the house. She also climbs the cat trees a few times a day.
Her
ringworm seems to have cleared up completely. The bald patches have disappeared
and her coat is beautiful and shiny. So is Charlie’s.
The
house is now completely theirs. Tina loves the hammocks in the cat trees.
Charlie lies in them from time to time too but he prefers to plunk himself down
on the floor or lie on one of his favourite chairs. They both lie on the couch
and love our bed. During the day, while we’re home, they wander in and out.
They are so comfortable in our company and in the house.
When
I’m working behind the computer, Tina calls in to me from time to time to stand up on
her hind legs at the side of the chair, pat me on the arm and meow to let me
know she’s there. I pet her on the head then and sometimes she goes into the
windowsill or walks around and rubs my legs and then walks away again. When she
wants to play though, she drags a toy from the sitting room to the bedroom,
opposite from the room where I sit and then does the arm patting. If I still
keep working, she will drag the toy into the office space to make it even
clearer. “Come on, I want to play”. Of course I can’t resist her charm and play
with her for a while.
They
own us and they know it.
It’s
been such a good time so far with the two. I do miss Cato a lot. I would have
loved to have seen the three of them together.
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