Growing up

Settling Down

It has been just over a week since Lettie (as opposed to Lattie) arrived.  She has explored the whole house and she and Fifi have almost made friends.  Lettie has decided where her favourite places are

and the best places to sleep.  Apart from my lap she has taken over Tipsy's spot on the sofa and sleeps on the bed at night.

More exploring

A New addition

Off we went to the SPA as we had had an uninvited visitor through the cat flap. We thought that we would get a male cat which would be territorial and keep off the feline gate crashers. Although there were many males, including this one who we called the walrus

as his markings were appropriate. Helen fell in love with Lattie a female grey tabby!

So what happened? We returned home with Lattie, who as I write, is exploring her new domain and keeping a wary eye out for Fifi.

It should be an interesting night!

2017 so far

It’s the middle of January 2017 and Fifi has been on her own for about a month. She still looks for Tipsy but she is an independent sole and now patrols her domain with a certain amount of authority. So far she has brought in three mice and one bird for our inspection. Thereby showing us how much she appreciates us and advising us that her hunting skills are more than adequate! However, as much as we acknowledge that she is an expert huntress we have been unable to impress upon her that we are aware of her skills and that she does not need to show us so often. All the mice have been released back into the garden and the bird was set free. It just shows that she has the mouth of a “retriever” and rarely harms any of her prey. At the moment the garden is under an inch of snow and the temperature is below five degrees so Fifi is not impressed with this year’s winter!

Tipsy

19.12.2016  Sadly Tipsy died this morning.  She will be missed greatly by all at home.

To the Vet'.

Thursday (20.10.2016) was a bad day for Tipsy. She had had a fight with a local invader a couple of weeks ago and been out of sorts for a while but by Thursday she had lost a lot of weight and was favouring her left rear paw and was very poorly. A trip to the local vet revealed that she had broken her left rear paw and that it had become infected. The vet’s solution was an operation on the infected digit removing the broken and infected part. He was however worried about the anaesthetic as Tipsy is over nineteen years old!

We left Tipsy with him for the day and she was operated on that afternoon. We collected her at five o’clock that evening. She was, needless to say, very vocal and not at all happy

about her condition. She was still much sedated and could not get to her feet. Her left rear paw was bandaged up. At home all she wanted was to get out of her basket and make sure she was really home. She drank water copiously and eventually woke up enough to eat.

Her appetite had returned with a vengeance and she quickly devoured a couple of sachets of “Whiskers”. She was very unsteady on her feet and the bandage on her rear leg was slippery on the tiled floor making locomotion difficult.



After a disturbed night during which she had slept on the bed upstairs then downstairs and eventually in the garden she had somewhat returned to her wilful self. She can now jump up on the lounge sofa and the bed by herself.

She has to keep the bandage on her leg on until th end of the month but hopefully all will be well when it is removed.