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February 14, 2006
Little Miss Missy Comes Home
Missy, (pseudonym) the beautiful grey kitty, came home with me via a stop to vet. I always take a newbie to the vet just in case to avoid transmitting anything to the cat already at home. She was chirping away and alert to everything on the 45 minute ride to the vet’s office. The vets and staff fell instantly in love with Missy and why not? She was mewing, purring and contorting to keep their attention. It was quite a performance.
I told her it was OK, she was a good girl. When held, she has a habit of putting one of her paws (nails retracted) on my cheek and stroking it. It’s adorable.
I put hand cream on both cats’ snouts before they met so they would have a common scent. The 16 year-old was happy to see another cat and was quite cordial. Let the games begin. Missy hissed, spat and ran away. “16” chased after her as I’m sure he thought it a game. She pretty much harassed him when she could. I put an end to it after a few days as I figured a couple of days would give them time to acclimate to each other.
I noticed when I came home from work they’d put on ‘the show’ for me. Chase, run, hiss, meow and run, run, run. I was delighted to see ‘16’ kept up and didn’t sleep the whole next day. He was rejuvenated. Eventually they started sleeping together at night and during the day seemed to remain in their own territory.
Missy loves to look out the window and grinds her teeth as she watches the birds cavort. Missy chirps and the birds cheep - - – makes for a lovely time for all. A squirrel comes right up to window and she seems to have made friends with him.
I bought one of those cat tunnels - actually I bought two and connected them. Missy's favorite game that she plays every day and always has a special performance for visitors. She runs through the DR under the coffee table in the LR, runs through the tunnel, jumps on the cat condo, then onto the cat tree, slides down and through the tunnel back through to the DR. Minimum of three times - - - then, onto the lap of an unsuspecting person. She gets herself settled on the lap and then turns onto her back and purrs loudly. She's a hoot.
Until next time - - - when #3 comes home…
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