Ah Tried But Ah Couldn't...

Well here Ah thought Ah had everytin' figured out.

But Ah guess nawt.

Ah saw mom the uther day, opening up a whole other set of drawers. Ah don't know whah Ah've missed this awl this time, but Ah did... Ah deeed!

And so, Ah caught it the uther day - she was openin' drawers 'upstairs'! Een her own room!

Ah thought Ah would make like mom, you know. Ah thought Ah could open these too. Ah even got tactical 'bout it: Ah tried every which possible angle... with mah paws, with mah mouth... whatevah it took.

How Am I DOING?

I just passed by mom's table (after being out of sight for a little while, trying to find my peace and quiet from Googie chasing me.)

"Honey? ", she called out to me. I stopped and looked at her.

"How're you doing??"

Are you kidding me? After staring her in the eye I quickly flicked my neck in the opposite direction.

THAT's how I'm doing.

Ah Am Resigned To...

..the fact that whenever mom calls out to me using this strange word, it does not really mean anythang.

I don't even think it's a name for me, even.

"Doobie?", she'll go.. And she has cawnfused me ever since the first time Ah heard it.

So now, I kinda know that it's directed at me, for no apparent purpose. I know that it doesn't have anythang to do with food, with water, with going to bed, or going "out" of some space.. Or even stopping doing somethang...

It's just ... "doobie".


:))

An Abbreviated Outing

Well, tonight's 'outing' did not work out too well.

Mom let me out of my room and it seemed I was all free to go wherever. She went 'downstairs' so I took her cue. But I had to do my thorough check of the whole place and I was compelled to go all the way "downstairs".

I returned at the call of the dinner bell, so to speak. I couldn't really eat too much, I was too curious and excited to retake control of the house. So I started to gallop away from the dinner bowls where Googie was at with me. Googie always likes to chase me so we ran together furiously and he egged me on to pretty much fly down the stairs.

"Eeeehhhhhhh!!!! ", I heard mom scream. She came barreling down the steps and we both froze in our places, looking up at her.

"You are NOT supposed to run like this! And YOU - are not supposed to chase her!" she yelled at Googie. Googie didn't know what to do, it takes him a while to figure out that he's in real trouble. So he quickly looked to the left, looked to the right, tried to get a sense of himself and finally,

"YES! YOU.. ! YOU go OUT! Upstairs!"

He ran back up the steps. I stood there, under the daybed, playing chicken with mom. I knew she couldn't reach for me.

Eventually, well.. it really took a couple of minutes, I came back up to where she was. Tried to be as nonchalant as possible while she repeated the riot act at us. But I couldn't.. I had all this energy and something was tempting me, pushing me to run back up the steps, especially with Googie standing nearby, waiting to see my next move, and mom warning me not to do it.

I made a run for it, Googie right behind me and mom at the tail end, screaming at us.

Aisn't no good. I made a run back to my room.. The same room she has kept me in all week long. This was a losing battle.

So she turned on the light. "Good move. That was definitely a GOOD MOVE on your part", she said in an even tone.

I took the extra step and actually climbed up the bed and settled down. I knew that door would close behind her.


[One more night... we got for suture removal tomorrow.]

Mah Favorite Thangs

Did Ah evah mention about one of mah favorite thangs?

Well, it waus somethang else that mom had touched and pointed in front of me. So Ah figured, this must be important too.

So ever since Ah saw her do that, with her paws -- Ah followed suit.

You Mean ...ME?

Ah really just don't understand whah Ah'm supposed to get awn down from mah favorite chair.

Granted, Ah mean.. When Ah first saw it, it deed scare the hale out of me. But then when Ah saw mom sitting awn it repeatedly, Ah knew this was the 'IT' thang.

And so, Ah make like mom duz.. Ah SIT awn it. Whah, it's mah latest favorite spot!!

Really Peeved

So mom let me out again so I could socialize and spend quality time with her and Googie.

She took off my collar while I was in her room. This was my chance to thoroughly clean myself so I took my cue and went to work on it. I went over every inch of my furbody including the back of my legs. But then she put the collar back on me.

"You can't lick your belly", she said to me.

So on the collar goes and I sit on the bed quite disappointed. I try to watch some TV but it just isn't the same.. I feel defeated, I'm looking down toward the floor.

When is this whole thing gonna end?!!


[We go back for suture removal on Saturday.]

Getting With the Program

So Ah hung around after mah initial greeting with Pipi ...like Ah recounted in my past entry.

And then she started watching "TV" with mom.. And Ah started feelin' a little bored, Ah didn't like the closed door. So I jumped down from the bed and walked on toward the door, looking back at mom.

"Can I go out now?", I meowed back at her, eyeballing her.

"Can you just ..RELAX? We're all trying to relax here, okay?", she said back.

Well, okay then - Ah turned right around and jumped back on the bed to join them. Just like that.

I can be a reasonable cat - all you gotta do is communicate to me.


[Seriously, it happened exactly in this way.. He listened to me, I don't know HOW he got it? But he responded immediately after I told him to "relax".. LOL ! Well, hey - here's an example of something ELSE he got. ]

A Sight For Sore Eyes

Ah saw Princess Pipi again tonight after mom came home.

She took Pipi from her closed room and they went in mom's room again and plopped on the bed. I was invited to join shortly after, and Ah oblaged.

We had a good visit this time. Better than yesterday. Ah take mah cue from the ladies and Ah guess Ah have to stop being a bit boorish.. Ah did nawt try to smell Pipi's belly this time. Ah just wanted to kiss her and lick her face and forehead.

She was so glad to see me, she lowered her head below mine, put her forehead under mah chin and waited for mah affections. She really needed my love, Ah could tell.

It was a sight for sore eyes..

A Visit with Pipi

Well, Ah got to see Princess Pipi tonight.

I watched mom taking her from her room and walking over to mom's room and they closed the door on me. So I plopped down by the hall railing, just waiting.

And then the door opened. "Come on in!", mom said to me. Aw, awkay.. Ah will. Ah stepped in cautiously, not knowing what to expect. And there was "Pipi" - in that blue round collar around her neck.

Ah stood there again, taking it all eeen. And Ah approached. '

"Pipi, honey.. Ah've missed you, what's been happenin?", Ah kissed her, nose-to-nose, and on her head and neck. "Don't worry, Pipi, aisn't nothing coming between us.. Not even this strange thang 'round your neck."

She was hesitant but she was glad to see me too. And then she went over a few steps and plopped down, just like that. So nonchalantly. We looked at each other, and Ah tried to understand. It was her belly, she was taling me. So Ah walked over to her, as she was lounging down, and tried to smell her belly, tried to see what she was talking about. But she flinched and sat up, and wouldn't let me.

"Don't... do that, Googie", she warned me, extending her paw outward toward mah face.

So she walked on further away from me and sat under the chair and stared at me from afar. Ah knew to stay far enough away now.. Ah plopped mahself down right bah the door and we stared at each other like that. She kept looking at me with her intense stare; Ah tried to understand what she had been through as she cawntinued to look and relate to me about her belly and 'the doctor'.

She then tried to lick and groom herself down bah her nethers but she couldn't do it. She kept wobbling off-balance with that thing around her neck, she couldn't reach over it to clean herself. So Ah thought Ah'd go over and see if Ah could help.

"It's okay, Googie.. you can't do anything right now.", she quickly dismissed me.

Mom was around us the whole time and after awhile Ah decided to better leave 'em both alone, Ah'll just remove mahself from the immediate scene. So as soon as mom suggested it, at the slightest crack of the open door Ah took mah cue and was more than happy to park it again outside in the hallway.

All About ...Letting Go

Mom came in just now to visit me in my room, she gave me my breakfast and tidied up around me.

I went to my scratching post and furiously scratched my way to get an upper hand.. I mean this IS my territory after all. Then she plopped me on the bed asking me 'are you okay'? And, 'can I see that belly?'.

I knew what was coming. I patiently let her flip me over, belly-up, while she slowly examined my belly.. that stuff down there.

I began to purr...

Even though I don't like losing control like this, you know... belly-up, I purr right at that very moment. Because I know - at that very moment, that she really cares.

Ah Sense Male-dom Out There

You know, when a stranger enters the house, Pipi and Ah tend to scram out of sight.

But nowadays, Ah've become rather curious about just what EES out there, beyond mah front door. Ah hear what sounds to me like a male.. A male human, crowing out there - and Ah'm interested, Ah want to know moare about it.

So Ah just went out bah the entry window pane to see... Ah walked awn there with a purpose in mah gate. Ah wanted to be part of this..


[My male neighbor is 'crowing' I guess - on his phone or whatever ... Like the neighborhood rooster. ]

:))

I Can Tell

So mom continues to come into my room to check on me.

I'm not happy about being kooped up like this in only one room in the whole house but I go along with the program. I mean, I don't just bolt out the door when she opens it.

I interact.

And so, she comes in and she does things like checks on my belly, fills my bowl, puts back my collar if I managed to take if off... Not to mention the "medicine", oh-my-god! Even so, I don't hiss like Googie loses it sometimes..

After she put that horrible collar on me, she came back with this puffy white thingie and started wiping my belly.

As awkward as I was in that position, stretched out on my back, collar all over me - I began to purr. I was being taken care of was the point here.. And I loved it.

(I'm no longer mad at her..like I was yesterday.. )

Back to The Doctor

It was another ambush on me yesterday.

Mom took me to "the d-o-c-t-o-r" without warning. Well, I do admit.. she did look at my belly and it was bleeding a little. I wasn't feeling so hot either and I didn't even come over to her bed in the morning.. It was only Googie.

So I get in my own box willingly.. And I see and hear lots of smells and things at "the doctor", including these obnoxious creatures standing there almost as big as mom, with their tongues hanging out. I stretched myself long like a hot-dog inside my box and watched closely as strangers passed by outside.

My belly was peered over by a few strangers.. I just remained calm, there was nothing I could do really.

So mom and I got back home and next thing I know she's giving me another "medicine".. worse than before. It got even worse: she took out that round thing I saw Googie had around his neck long ago - which I will never forget.

"Oh, noooo!! ", I tried to squirm away but it was no use. She is stronger than me and insisted..

So here I was now, with this strange, ridiculous, un-natural thing around my neck.. And I don't know HOW to move around with it.

"All Done"

I had to be checked over again today so mom sat me down on her bed and looked closely at my belly.

I squirm at first when she tries, I just never felt comfortable exposing my belly the way Googie does even on-demand.

So we go through this drill, and she checks over all my.. thingies on there [sutures]. And then she says:

"All done!".

Well I know what that means. So upon hearing it, I feel free to step down on the step from the bed and go on my way. It's my cue.

...Or like, I'll hear it when she cleans my poopoo-box. She'll say: "all done!" - or "all clean!". Same difference. I know it's then my time to go use it, otherwise I have to wait.

Doing A Little Redecorating

I was in 'our room' for a good while, mom wanted me there and I could tell that I guess I really needed to be. Even when Googie opened the door and let himself in yesterday, I refused to leave. I felt that I should just stay in there. And so he had to join me on the bed, and I talked him into staying a good distance from me. He could tell I had to be handled with 'kid gloves' as they say.

But when I had all that time to myself, before the door was opened, I got bored. There was nowhere to go, nothing much to do. I'm used to going up and down the steps throughout the whole house and this began to feel a little.. constricted.

So I decided I was going to make some changes.

Like that red cube 'beddie bye' that mom had gotten us, way back when we were really small? It had to be moved. It was in the wrong place.

I pushed it around and moved it from where it was, against the wall, all the way to be next to my step pillows, at the side of the big bed. THAT's where the red cube-house belonged. With the opening of it facing outward.


[While Princess was recuperating in the second bedroom the past few days for rest and healing after her surgery she apparently decided to .. redecorate. ]

Nothing Can Keep Me Away

You know? Ah waus nawt going to accept thangs as they are. Ah don't care if mom's trying to keep me away from Pipi, awl Ah know is that Pipi isn't happy about it either becoze Ah can hear her trying to get out from the uther side of the door too.

And so, Ah went to work on it: Ah coached her to help me open the door.

"Pipi, honey? C'mawn, you keep awn there and let me poosh from here.. Just a leetle more, and Ah'll have it open soon!"

And Ah deed it - Ah opened the door, mom nowhere in sight. [mom was clueless down by the laptop].

"Aw, Googie! okay, BUT: you have to leave me be.. Here, I'll jump on the bed and go to sleep on this spot.. And you, you can just stay over there, okay?"


[I passed by upstairs on my way to the shower and what do I SEE? - the door has been opened, and they are both sleeping on the bed. He is nearby one corner of it, while she's on the other...

They won - essentially. I can't fight this.. The carpet has been shredded by the door as it is.. And he's managed to open the frekking DOOR, he is THAT stubborn.. and caring for her. ]

Checking Thangs Over

Well, Ah saw Pipi some more this morning when mom let her out of her room.

All seemed well but she's bean a leetle standoffish.. In spite of mom's stalking of me and all her warnin's, Ah started licking her all around her head yesterday to show her mah affection but she didn't stay too long for that.

So tuday, Ah decided to take the opportuniteh and check every inch of her room - while they were both out of sight.

Nose-to-corner, nose-to-window-sill, nose to .. everythang.

Ah needed to fand out what waus causing this whole sheeeft with Pipi here. Ah've bean keeping vigil as it is, awl night long nearbah her door.

Embarrassing

I spent the day sleeping in my room today and mom came back in to check on me later. I was glad to see her, I meet her by the door when she opens it but I hesitate to run out - I watch for what she's gonna do and then I'll turn the other way and stall.

So she checked my room over, brought me my dinner. Then she put me on the bed to check my belly again.

Well, the door was open and Googie was standing out there, looking in curious as ever.

So here I am, with mom peering over my messed up belly, I'm spread-eagle paws all out in all directions, and she's putting something on me. While I let her do her thang, I craned my neck over to Googie's direction to look over and see if he was watching.

I really just can't be seen like this.

Checking Awn Pipi

This day has gone as weird as the day before.

Ah didn't get to see Pipi. I could only catch a whiff of her. She was behind that closed door still.

Mom "gonna go bye-bye", I saw her leave. And Pipi was just not around, she was out of my reach.

And so, when mom came home, Ah patiently and quietly joined in the checking awn Pipi. We went 'upstairs' together and Ah watched as she opened the door to go see her.

After a little while, mom tried to get us to see each other. She took Pipi in her hands and put her down right in front of me just so we could at least touch base with each other.

Well... Naw, AH'VE been told to "stop fighting", right? And so, Ah'm being really careful naw, NOT to do anythang ...untoward.

And so, Ah really didn't know what to do... Pipi was suddenly right there, in my face, but she was really lowering her face below mah chest... Ah could tale she wasn't exactly as she was bafawre she left for the 'doctor'.

And then Ah smelled her, the back of her head, as she presented herself to me... And Ah didn't know what to thank, it waus different ... and rather disagreeable.

--- But Ah held mahself in check. Mom was right there watching me.

Ah decided eet waus best to just walk away - in a clip. Instead of risk being told Ah'm "not nice" or whatevah...


:))

Coming Home

I thought this was gonna be another ordinary day for me and Googie but I've got to hand it to mom, she really sneaked up on me. I didn't even have the faintest inkling what was about to happen. Well, except when I heard the sound of one of our boxes being opened up. When she came back upstairs, I did get this panicked look on my face, ready to bolt. But she acted SO casual? It really went over my head.

Next thing I know, she's carrying me downstairs nonchalantly, not saying a word. And then there I go, into my box..

I really didn't bother to cause a commotion, I mean I did hear the only words she said: "You're going to "the d-o-c-t-o-r"."

Next thing I know, I wake up totally confused .. looking around for a sign of mom.. She finally comes over and sticks her face down to mine to check me over. I was really quiet on our way home. And then I had to deal with Googie.. yuh..

I came to realize, slowly, that this was gonna be really all-about-me night. I got the big room, my water, my favorite food.. god, I was so hungry, I had to stop everything and eat!

Mom closed the door behind her every time and I figured, you know what? This is probably a good idea, I'm not gonna fight it. Now: let me just do my nails and clean up a little bit. God! my paws are dirty.

Trying to Understand..

Wale, as a cawntinuation of mah previous tell-tail:

Mom sure did come back later tuday, with Pipi in her box. Actually? come to think of it, it was my box but Ah wasn't gonna get awl uptight over that.. Ah mean, fane, Ah stood and stared a beet cawnfused bafawre Ah approached - but Ah had bigger fish to fry here.

"Pipi, honey, what's happened?", I asked as I stepped up to greet her nose-to-nose. It didn't matter that our faces were separated by this see-through thang.

"Googie, please.. I was at "the doctor's" and I don't really know what happened. I'm confused and don't feel so hot right now, okay? "

Ah didn't know what to make of it. Ah stood around watching for mom's next move, trahing to sort it all out. But Pipi wasn't let out of her box. Mom actually carried her, in her box, all the way upstairs to the 'beddie-bye- floor.

Ah followed up, well.. actually I led them both upstairs, as I knew somehow how this all was gonna play out. At first, Ah thought they were gonna go to mom's room, so Ah went in there and patiently waited to see what would happen next. But then Ah realized that mom took Pipi to 'our room' in the other direction.

And closed tha... door. On me.. So Ah couldn't get to Pipi...

Ah hesitantly skulked around nearbah Pipi's room... Trying to make contact, somehow.. Ah hesitated to even stick mah paw underneath the door, to tale you the truth.

And then mom would go in and out of Pipi's room several times, taling me in the process to 'leave her alone', to back off, to 'be careful!'.

So Ah parked it a few feet away - Ah was going to cooperate, Ah waus!

Until this last time mom came out of the room where Pipi was een? And she tried to corral me, to fenagle me to walk awn down the stairs. She was right behind me the whole time and Ah had no choice but to go down.

Until the fifth or sixth step. Ah figured, nawww! This is too much! Ah ain't gonna be forced to do somethang Ah don't wanna DO, awkay? !

HISSS!!!

Ah stood mah ground as Ah knew mom was right behand me. Ah stopped and stood there and let her know in no uncertain terms that Ah was unhappy about this - yes, Ah deeed hiss. But at least it wasn't in-her-face. She was overpowering me as it was, towering over me.

She backed off. Ah went back upstairs, still worried as hale about Pipi, and parked it again a few feet away.

Finally, mom comes up to me from the lower steps, in a submissive posture. She was facing me, below mah face, clinging on the steps below me: "Gabriel, it's okay. She went to "the d-o-c-t-o-r" and she's gonna be okay. But you can't fight - "NO FIGHTING", okay?", she explained in low tones to me.

Mah eyes shifted back towards Pipi's closed room as she talked, and back to her face again, as mah eyes were as big as ever. As soon as Ah heard those words, "no fighting", Ah understood. Ah stood up, stretched nonchalantly, taking it all in, and head-bonked her. Ah was ready to go 'downstairs' now with her, as she had previously insisted.

Ah understood.

[And so, he spent the rest of the evening literally by my side, next to the laptop.. Occassionally letting out big sighs.. Still.]

:))

Ah Wonder Whah...

Ah thank Ah may have meesed something tuday... 'dis mornin'.

It awl seemed all right at first, Ah mean Pipi and mom went about their usual thang this morning.

And then they both disappeared. Then mom came back a leetle while later. Ah hung around nearbah her but Ah couldn't find Pipi.

So Ah jumped on the table to be close to her, and Ah moved in closer to her face. Ah sensed something was wrong... Ah really was in no mood to shmooze up to her the way Ah usually do.

Ah was seeking answers.. Ah needed to read her. And Ah could tale she was worried about something.

Ah settled bah the corner of the table, trahing to figure it awl out. Ah let out a deep sigh.

Wait, maybe Pipi is downstairs. That's where Ah'll go to find her... [jumps down and walks downstairs].

Naw... she wasn't down there either.. Ah looked toward the kitchen as Ah came back up.. Then Ah went back up to face mom - eye to eye.

"She's at the "d-o-c-t-o-r's", honey... She'll come home soon, okay?", she said to me in a low, whisper of a voice.

Ah head-bonked her at that.


[Princess is at the vet's going through routine surgery. .... ]

Blowing A Little Too Much Sunshine...

Mah day started with following mom down to the little room and parking it close bah to her.

Ah kept looking up at her, wanting to be even closer. So she finally picked me up and got me in her lap, hugged me real good. During these moments, Ah feel one with the whole universe with her.. It's just awesome.

So naw, after she put me down again, Ah was all puffed up and ready - Ah could take awn the world!

And what do Ah see? There's Pipi! Rolling on the floor, teasing and tempting me! Ah pounced in an instant. Ah wrestled her down on the floor, like she wasn't already, and started nipping her in the back of her neck.

She needed it.

"HEYYY!!!! ", Ah heard mom scream. "STOP IT!!"

Oooh, boy - she waus upset. Ah tried to act as casual as Ah could about it, while Pipi got back on her feet checking to see who mom was really mad at. Yuh, Ah guess it waus me.

But Ah can steel look cawnfused. Until Ah felt mom's finger poking mah butt: "YOU don't DO that, OKAY?!!"

Aw, allright, allright... Let me just saunter under the table and chair for naw... Wait 'teal she cooles off a beet.

Inspection Time

Googie and I were lounging as usual near mom tonight while she was busy again with The Thang (laptop).

Once she stepped away for a little while, I jumped right up on her chair. Googie had already been laying around next to her and The Thang so I had to see what was going on.

Huh... Nose-to-thing.. I can barely reach it, standing here on top of the chair. "Googie? what did you see? Anything?"

"You wouldn't understand these thangs, Pipi.. Ah sat here and helped her put her paws on top of these black thingies... This is just beyond your understanding.."

"Don't get so full of yourself Goog, okay? Just remember: I brought you in here, I showed you the whole house, I am the one!"

Oh, here she comes back now.. See now, I don't have to wait for her to tell me 'excuse me', Googie. I know she needs to sit back down! [jumps down]

Confounded

I've been riled up pretty much for most of the day now... I keep calling and calling.. Climbing on top of Googie. Googie tries to placate me, keep me happy.

Anyway, so.. I went to a corner to make sure all potential tom-suitors knew I am here and I let it rip.

"HEYYY!!! ", I heard mom go. I was already back in the middle of the living room.

"Huh?".. I stood there, staring at her. My mouth trembling a murmur, confused. My eyes wide, in suspense.

"Noooo!", she said.

"Well, why? I didn't think...".. I continued to stand there, totally dumbfounded. What do you mean I can't mark? I HAVE to... I have to let them all know!!


[Couldn't get her fixed at our last appointment date - she was already in heat. Have to wait now and fit her in this coming week. Let's keep our fingers crossed.]

The Technical Cat

Ah have trahd so many times to figure owt what makes mah water bowl tick.

Going To The Well

Ah was lounging in peace the uther day when Ah caught weend of Pipi focusing in on a flah. [fly]

That kinda woke me up a little moare, knowing Pipi gets pretty manic when that happens. She is determaned to go get that flah, no matter what.

So Ah watched her jump behand the couch, right there bah the window where Ah look out of. Next thang Ah knew, she had it in her mouth, walking away like a cheap thief, ignoring mom's cawling.

"Don't EAT THAT!", mom shrieked at her - but Pipi just ran away with the hunt all hers.

Hmmm....let me see naw.. Ah figured, AH'LL go back to the well, see if there's any more flahs.


[Followed on Pipi's footsteps, climbing on top of the couch, looking for more flys in the back by the window pane.]

Oh No... Here She Comes

Ah'm lounging around near mom tonight. Ah come up on the table where she is beesy with The Thang [laptop], and then Ah give up and alternate over to the low table nearbah.

So Ah was just standing upright on that low table, basically mulling over mah next possible move. When Ah see her coming over, her arms extending all out. Ah knew what that meant:

Ah'm about to get a little smothered.

Ah'm kinda shy you see. Ah mean, no way Ah'm gonna jump down or get away from her.

But Ah did brace mahself. Ah turned mah head the other way and lowered mah neck ....awww.

She came over and hugged me with both her arms, held me close to her chest. And Ah just stand there, loving it, patiently letting her have however much she needs of me.


[It feels so good to hug him.. his entire body and fur are SO soft and cuddly .. Like his soul. ]

Chair Terror Cawntinues...

I came home a little while ago and not only they didn't greet me downstairs... they didn't even come out the entire time.

After cooking, I finally went upstairs to investigate. They were both ...lounging, Princess on the bed, Gabriel down on the floor. They were completely ignoring all my pleas to come down and eat their food the whole time I was down in the kitchen cooking.

Totally unusual. Now, bear in mind, it was only Gabriel who saw the new chair. Princess never saw it.

So after letting her smell my hand several times and acting as usual as I could, I gently picked her up to bring her down to eat. She is the tiny one and does need to have her meal.

All was well until I stepped into view of the... CHAIR.

The moment she caught sight of the new chair, she freaked out. Like Gabriel. That would be because he somehow passed it on to her, like everything else they do. Which again makes me wonder: HOW do they communicate? do they see mental pictures through each other??

Anyway, I had to persevere and as soon as I brought her to her food bowl, she got over it and started eating. Glancing nervously once in a while in the direction of the dining room..

A Real Situation Here..

I just tried to get Gabriel and move him to the new chair. Wow...

He dug his claws into the carpeted steps, absolutely refusing to let me pick him up. When I finally pried him off and held him, I walked over to the new chair with him.

I figured, we'll do the cold-turkey approach, get it over with. What's the use of having him sit there, getting psychotic over a new office chair and just staring at it.

Hale, no... He just freaked out when we got close to the chair.

Tried a second time - even worse. He fought me and ran away, under the bed.

This cat just can't take change apparently - he notices every little thing that's out of its place, and now this...


:)

A Deesturbance In Our Meedst...

The mornin' started quate naturally, with mom doing her usual thangs.

And then, Ah noticed Pipi got into a frenzy: she left her poopoo-box in a hurry after she heard mom come out the tinky-tink thang [the alarm remote]. It was that sound, At thank, that really got Pipi's goat: that special tinky-tink.

Ah personally am no longer afraid of the thang becoze mom had taught me a while back that "it was okay".

And so, Ah watched Pipi quate impassively, run around like a mad cat, jumping down the steps and looking back up to mom, and then looking toward the door.

"Googie! Somebody's COMING!", she fretted, with a mad look on her face - and then she disappeared. Ah stayed. Until somebody DEED come in, and then Ah scrammed... That had nuttin' to do with the tinky-tink thang.. This was a whole new level.

Anywah, after a whale, Ah kept hearing mom taling me "it's okay", and "come and get your nummy-num". Pipi never did show back up, she has bean MIA...as they say.

But Ah trahd to make an appearance. Ah, timidly Ah do admeet, came down a few steps to see what was going awn. And what do Ah SEE? This whole new big thang right bah where mom usually sits by the thang [laptop]. There was this whole new thang there, a different color and a different shape than bafawre...

Ah just couldn't take it. Ah wouldn't come down, eet didn't matter that my fresh 'nummy num' was waiting for me. That would mean Ah would have to pass the new big thang and that is out of the question...

And so.. Ah am still just sitting by a safe-distance, bah the higher step, just looking at it. Quate suspicious.


[Gabriel can't come to terms with the new, dark blue office chair by the dining room table. I figured, I'll sit on it and write here for a while so he can at least associate it with me. ]