Sunday, August 25, 2013

Cats

I have been around cats most of my life.  Currently in our family we have two.  Both cats found us verses us finding them.  The cat we have had the longest showed up at our door step one day.  She showed up on our deck. We fed her and then we took her to our vet just to get her checked out.  The next thing I knew she was a part of our life.  She was a skittish cat when we first got her but you could tell she wanted to be part of a family.  It took a little work but she adjusted to the other cat we had at the time.




She is a tortoiseshell cat.  These cats have what is called "tortitude".  They are very opinionated.  Not that we can talk cat but this cat does a good job expressing her feelings by the tone of her meows. This cat is very loyal to our family and makes it a point to check on each family member before she settles in for the night.  She almost always sleeps at the edge of our bed but only on the side of the bed my wife sleeps on.  If my wife is out of town she does not sleep on the bed.  She also has this strange habit of bringing a stuffed animal to my wife several times during the day.  The stuffed animal is Swiper from Dora the Explorer.   We sometimes will hide Swiper in various places in the house but the cat always seems to find it.



Our other cat also found us.  We had been at our vet's office for one of our other cats.  The vet often has cats up for adoption that people have found.  This orange tabby immediately captured our hearts when we first met him.  It only took a few visits for us to realize we needed to bring him home.  This cat likes to be the center of attention and has a huge ego.  We facilitated this by entering his picture in the Page A Day Cat calendar.  We were very happy to find out that he made the calendar.




This cat loves to eat.  My wife has done a good job of keeping both cats on a regimented feeding schedule.  We have an automatic feeder that drops food in the morning and around dinner.  It's funny how the cats know about what time the food will be there.  They start congregating around the feeder.  When the food does drop the orange tabby is the first at the feeder.  



(Swiper by the food bowl)

Both cats are very close to everyone in our family.  I can't imagine what it would be like not to have them in our lives.  I do think they help you keep your stress levels down.  They are great with our children. Sometimes they can be a pain but that's another thing cats teach us....patience.


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