Where I Talk About My Cats Like the Whole World Cares
January 23rd, 2008Things are evening out with the cats. Mia is now leaving the bedroom on her own, for instance. You may recall that with Linus’ diabetes came an aggressive, murderous bent, which led to Mia requiring all services be provided in our bedroom. Now we no longer have to feed her there, and she is splitting her litter-box usage between the master-bathroom box and the old boxes. She is also back to another habit that was suspended with the onset of Linus’ desire to maim her: Ever since I got pregnant, she hadn’t let me out of her sight. While I was very sick, she followed me from room to room, chair to chair, and she’s back to being my little shadow. She is even willing to share the bed with me AND Linus in order to stay close. Unfortunately, this puts four of us in the bed at night. It’s a squeeze. We need more bassinets.
Linus is making up for lost time, for all the time he spent being fat. Maybe you remember my lamenting his inability to reach anything on his body besides his paws. (Oh, but they were immaculately groomed paws!) He required bathing and “other” maintenance. But now that he has slimmed down he is like Yoga Cat and grooms himself neurotically. Since his method of grooming involves a sucking-in-of-the-fur akin to a steam-carpet cleaner, there is the constant background sound of loud sucking and slurping. But man, is he clean! He is so soft and sweet-smelling. He is more active, too, and perky. He’s been chasing his tail every night. Now that he is so limber, he often catches it and gnaws on it for a second. We’re trying to get some video of this for you, but the beeping sound the video cam makes when you turn it on draws his curiosity away from the tail.
Anyway, they’re both here in the bed with me right now as an electrician and handyman we hired to do some nesting for us works downstairs. Any of you who have visited in the past two years may remember entering through the basement and being greeted by a stairwell light fixture dangling in pieces from the ceiling. Small thing, but that’s finally fixed, and we don’t need to feel like such home-improvement slackers now. And the surround-sound speakers are being mounted, with wires hidden and all, and other things are happening, too. Just a few improvements to make the place a little cozier.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Wait. So he’s not leaving black grease stains on the wall anymore? I’ll miss greasy Linus.
January 24th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
The New Linus can even jump now, I’ll bet? But what will you do without that funky smell of his in the house? Oh..I know, you’ll acquire all new smells with Violet in the house. So much to look forward to.
Grandmother is coming, she got Mia out of the closet, she can get Mia out of the bedroom. Mia loves her Grandmother. They talk, just like you and Mia.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I’m so glad that the cat wars are winding down and that Linus is now bathing himself. Once Violet arrives, you’ll have lots to do and it will be nice not to have to worry about cat fights and baths. Perhaps the cats can sense that something is about to change in their world and are getting ready for it in their own way by cleaning up their act. It will be interesting to see how they react to the baby. Dogs, I know, are sometimes very protective of a new baby (although my mother said that Rags tried to bite me once and she had to have “a long talk with him” about it.) But cats? No known research that I have ever run across.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
No more grease? Oh Linus.
So glad the kitties are doing well. Sorry if I’m behind the times, but are you still cat-sitting the third kitty?
That is sweet that Mia follows you around. Maybe she’ll be the perfect baby sitter!
January 24th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Now when you pet Linus below the neck, does he lick other things besides his paws?
I always figured he just went for the paws because that is what he could reach. I’m glad he’s so much happier now.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
> improvements to make the place a little cozier
AND ROCKING!!!
January 24th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
I freakin love reading about yer dang cats.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:03 am
I think I speak for the whole world when I say we care.