Woman in the Middle

It was a warm day at Room 8, but the kitties didn’t mind and Eldest Daughter and I didn’t either, except that cat fur tends to stick to you when you are sweaty! Oh well! Nothing a shower can’t cure!

I had a task today – find the new cats, pet them and figure out their personalities so I can write up a little blurb about them for later posting on the Room 8 website. Unfortunately, two of the cats I was supposed to get to know were either skittish or sick, so I couldn’t get those descriptions. However the third one, Anna, was a sweetie and I got to pet and get to know her. All cats have funny quirks (I think the term “quirky” was coined by a cat owner) and hers was to give you several quick bats on the hand if you did something she didn’t like. I was petting her head and back when she laid down on her side. I gave her belly a quick rub but she apparently didn’t like that and my hand got batted. I kept getting the batting routine for about five more tries to pet her (not on the belly), until she decided I had been “punished” enough I guess, and then it was OK to go back to head and back scratches. She didn’t bat me with her claws, so she wasn’t trying to hurt me. She was just letting me know what she did and did not want.

Eldest took a photo of Missy for me to share with you, shaved body and all. Here she is in all her silly glory.

And here is Missy having one of her famous hissy fits at a passing roommate. She is such a tiny thing, but has her hissy fits at all comers!

Today all the regulars were up on my lap in the elderly cat room, other wise known as room 6. But this time one more came over and rubbed my legs and let me bend down and pet her. Pretty Peaches was rubbing away while I petted Sukey, Joey, Socks and Angel.   Eldest took a photo of her for me as well. Isn’t she pretty? She has such striking coloring. 

Peaches was very skittish when she first came to Room 8, even though Manager Gail had been told she was a sweet and loving cat. But, as you can only imagine, it takes some cats awhile to get used to living with lots of over cats and having strange humans come in and out all the time. But Peaches is coming into her own now and we hope she will get a family of her own one of these days.

Right next to the elderly cat room is a room that has been turned over to kittens for the time being. The upper part of the walls between rooms is chicken wife, with a shelf below. An older cat whose name (for reasons unknown to me) is Pork Chop loves to hang out on those shelves, giving him a nice place to stretch out and observe the world of Room 6 from a high perch. While we were in room 6 he went from one side of the room to the other, and laid down over by the kitten room wall. Pork Chop is his own many. HE is happy to lay around and gt one head scratch a day from a passing human. Otherwise, he enjoys ignoring the world around him. But one little guy was so curious about Pork Chop. But, in normal Pork Chop fashion, the kitten was ignored while Pork Chop lounged or did a little cleaning up. Too funny!

You can see the kitten’s head just behind Pork Chop’s back leg. Of course the kitten looked away just as I took the photo.

Pork Chop did a little cleaning while the curious kitten just wanted to play.

Joey in Eldest’s arms. He was meowing to be let out into the rest of the cattery, so she picked him up and that made him happy.

This was the view from my lap. Everyone but Angel had jumped down and this little girl came over. I picked her up, which she didn’t like at all, but it only took a second to deposit her in my lap, and then she was very very happy. I found out her name, and then promptly forgot it. You will have to excuse me, there are a lot of cats at Room 8!