Finally, after two weeks, all four cats nesting together. Florence has officially settled in.
I am worried about Malteser. I suspect his days are numbered; he’s eating and drinking, but is weak and wobbly. A difficult winter this year.
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Photographic evidence that Willow is very fond of Florence. She was sitting there first and he appeared and curled himself around her. The shadow in the top right of the picture is Cosmo, who is having a difficult phase at the moment. It’s taking him a while to adjust to the almost simultaneous loss of Rosie and the arrival of Florence. We are pretty sure that his eyesight is poor and that’s why he is so shy and easily frightened. If he can’t see or understand what is happening, it’s incomprehensible or positively scary. So, despite the fact that he’s huge, strong and impressively handsome, he’s a classic scaredy-cat.
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I am still missing Rosie so very much. I know Willow and Cosmo are too.
This is her when she was an adorable wee kitten with ridiculously big ears. Thank you for the photographs, Emma.
Lately, this blog has become A Florence A Day. I had an especially tiring day at school today, because I was right out of my comfort zone.
When I got home I retired for a quiet lie down. As you see, Florence insisted on supervising me.
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Florence, who is now in charge of the other three cats. Because they permit it.
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All three of our resident cats have now accepted Florence the kitten. You see me here trapped under her and Malteser and therefore unable to go to bed, because I was so pleased I didn’t want to disturb them.
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Malteser closely monitoring John’s Sunday lunch.
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This morning I discovered that Cosmo also likes Catch The Mouse. The bald patch on the top of his head appeared just after we lost Rosie. We think that Willow showed his distress by attacking Cosmo. It’s OK, the fur will grow back.
Today we received a visit from Rosie’s original mum, Emma and one of her sons, Samuel. I really enjoyed seeing her and hearing stories of Rosie’s earlier life. Willow seems to remember Emma, because he was dramatically less shy than he is with strangers. But he was still a bit rubbish and Emma only got one squirmy cuddle. Emma put on a brave face, but I was so disappointed on her behalf.
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Florence likes FIFA 2012 on the Wii. It gets on Ted’s nerves when she chases the cursor or the ball.
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Ever since I got the iPad in December, I have been trying to get the cats to play with it. Turns out it was easy. All I needed was the 69p app, Catch The Mouse. Florence loves it. But she does find it hard to choose between that and her little red crinkly toy mouse, which Jo her breeder sent along with her.
Please excuse the living room; it needs a good vacuum.
Sweeet!
A Cat A Day 