Shadow news
Because everyone likes kitty-cat updates.
• She's stopped hiding all day long, especially since I partially cleaned out the dining room, making it a lot more open. She likes to come in and hang out while I'm working there, looking out the window or batting toys around the floor. Presently she'll go tuck herself into my bedroom closet and sleep off all that hard work. While she still comes out to greet guests, though, she doesn't stick around for them. Maybe people come over only during naptime. (This being more or less anytime the sun is not out.)
• She is both catnip-philic and laser-pointer-philic, the latter of which is a new experience for her. She likes laser-play so much that she recognizes the pointer itself and gets excited when she sees me picking it up. I will have to remember to give the pointer to my parents when they collect Shadow in March. (Maybe. I fear Ricky freaking out over it and throwing it away to protect my parents from blinding themselves, then lecturing me on giving them a deadly death device. Driven by a strong sense of fealty as well as clinical paranoia, he's often like an over-protective mother to them.)
• Shadow's kind of barfy, but no more than I really expect for cats. At least she has the good manners to do it while I'm there to see it, and on hard surfaces. Interestingly it's been a different color every time.
• Though her aim is true, she doesn't bury her poops, or really even scratch up the litter at all. I happened to have some incense so I've been burning that to counteract the smell. So now my house smells like it has both hippies and cats in it. (Yes I am aware that one is supposed to regularly remove the poops, thank you. The cat is very productive, is all.)
• Does kibble go bad? I ran out of the dry food that she came to me with and have been feeding her from a big bag left over from the Zuby era. She's been eating it up fine.
• She's stopped hiding all day long, especially since I partially cleaned out the dining room, making it a lot more open. She likes to come in and hang out while I'm working there, looking out the window or batting toys around the floor. Presently she'll go tuck herself into my bedroom closet and sleep off all that hard work. While she still comes out to greet guests, though, she doesn't stick around for them. Maybe people come over only during naptime. (This being more or less anytime the sun is not out.)
• She is both catnip-philic and laser-pointer-philic, the latter of which is a new experience for her. She likes laser-play so much that she recognizes the pointer itself and gets excited when she sees me picking it up. I will have to remember to give the pointer to my parents when they collect Shadow in March. (Maybe. I fear Ricky freaking out over it and throwing it away to protect my parents from blinding themselves, then lecturing me on giving them a deadly death device. Driven by a strong sense of fealty as well as clinical paranoia, he's often like an over-protective mother to them.)
• Shadow's kind of barfy, but no more than I really expect for cats. At least she has the good manners to do it while I'm there to see it, and on hard surfaces. Interestingly it's been a different color every time.
• Though her aim is true, she doesn't bury her poops, or really even scratch up the litter at all. I happened to have some incense so I've been burning that to counteract the smell. So now my house smells like it has both hippies and cats in it. (Yes I am aware that one is supposed to regularly remove the poops, thank you. The cat is very productive, is all.)
• Does kibble go bad? I ran out of the dry food that she came to me with and have been feeding her from a big bag left over from the Zuby era. She's been eating it up fine.
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