New members of the household

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You can never tell what the character of a cat from the shelter is going to be like, so far he's been super gentle and just wants to sleep, eat and be around humans. Oddly he seems to have no hunting/cat toy instinct and no interest in cardboard boxes at all!

It can take up to about six weeks till they show their real character. Our cat was just in recovery mode for the first few weeks (found him nearly starved to death), then he finally started to play and talk to us all the time.

[matt303]

Seems his playing instinct has returned and boy can he move to get the bird on a stick toy, also wandered into living room yesterday jumped onto sofa and crashed out on my lap

[PFVA]

I think he is going to settle in nicely, and Rosie seems to be also a sweet kind of cat, maybe pretty soon they'll be friends.

As for cardboard boxes i could never get Teifi interested in those. He goes as far as smelling them and that's all. Just recently for my surprise he did get interested in a big paper bag and played with it till tearing it apart.

[matt303]

Unfortunately the more settled he became the more he wanted to rule the roost and although in the early days he got on well with Rosie, towards the end of last week he started attacking her without any warning along with peeing and straying on anything that smelled of other cats. It was with a heavy heart that the decision was taken to return him to the shelter because in every other way he's a lovely cat, fortunately shelter said he'll not take long to find another home and will be listed as an only cat in house.

[matt303]

In more cheerful news it seems that next doors cats (Sisters Skittles and Saffie) have taken to crashing out in our garden because it's nice a quiet, here's a couple of photos of Skittles.

gardentest_6 by matt303uk, on Flickr

Skittles by matt303uk, on Flickr

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One of next door's cats Saffie that regually comes around if she hears our back door opening

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This is going to be a bit of a long post, I'm sad to say that Rosie is no longer with us but the house is still full of cat chaos because there are always cats needing homes.

In September 2019 we thought we'd get Rosie a new housemate and went to the same crazy cat lady shelter we got her and Thomas from all those years ago. Upon getting there a small black cat walked out from under a table and came up to me for some fuss, the lady at the shelter said this was odd as he normally hides and had been there for ages, needless to say we came home with Obi



He settled in really well and got on with Rosie.



Unfortunately what was thought to be a dental problem turned out to be cancer and we lost Rosie a few weeks later, we are thankful for having Obi because returning to a cat-less house would have been hard. Then in October we went back to the shelter and returned with Ellie, at the shelter she walked straight onto TGG's lap and crashed out then when I opened the cat carry she walked right in. She had a scab on her noise and above her eye but these soon healed.




Eventually the pair settled in together and will even sleep close to each other when not running around the house like loonies.



They are house cats but have access to a "catio" 24/7

[PFVA]

Aww. The 2 are adorable.

[venusian]

"catio" :-)

[matt303]

Ellie in her teepee, also testing out some new photo hosting

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And the Dude (Obi) making it hard for my phone camera by placing himself on a white background.

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It was nice enough to sit out at lunchtime earlier this week which means, visitor cats, but not the usual Saffie from next door but this massive black cat, he's easily twice the size of our cats but a massive fusspot.

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[PFVA]

Awww.
The top one looks a little bit like Lincie, same expression in the eyes too.

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I've set up a double decker cat storage system so they can both crash out in my office while I work.