We Hang Out and Chill Out

Will and Mishka get on like a house on fire, and this is a relief to all of us.
Here are more pictures.

furry friends forever

Will and Mishka are getting on really well. Occasionally Will finds her a bit too much, but most of the time he chirrups with excitement and they chase after each other in turns. INTIMATE MOMENTS

Mishka has a new home!

Today we went to pick up the most beautiful kitten ever! We are calling her Mishka, and we already adore her. She's very affectionate and playful. This is the only picture I managed to take as she won't stop moving! More to follow. Perhaps I can take some when she's finally sleeping.

Will is as happy as Larry

Yesterday I got a radiator cat bed for Will. It was given to me through Freecycle. I wanted one now that we'll be using Will's old cat bed for the new kitten. I was about to order it on-line when I remembered Freecycle, so I tried my luck. Within minutes I got a reply from someone who lives 5 min from home who was clearing the loft today and found an unused radiator cat bed. Her cat hated it she tells me, and refused to use it point blank.

But Will took to it immediately. And now it's his favourite spot in the house.

Success!

:-)

P.S. Tomorrow we are picking up the new kitten. We've got a name for her, but we need to see her to know for sure it's right for her.

Tom's ashes

I just went to pick up Tom's ashes. We'll be planting a bush with red berries in the garden and will be adding his ashes to the soil.

We arranged to go to Battersea and pick up a friend for Will. We'd met him, named him Alfie and were ready to go to collect him this Saturday, after he'd had his cat flu' jab. But they called me last Saturday to tell me poor little Alfie (and 2 siblings) had mysteriously died. They still don't know what the cause was, but they fumigated the place in case it was contagious.

Now we are due to pick up another kitten. She, like Alfie, is a tabby. Let's hope all goes well and Will and her (name to be decided very soon) become inseparable friends.

Fran

SAD NEWS

Dear all,

On the 11th of September in the evening I got back from my holiday (Barcelona and Valencia) only to get a phonecall first thing in the morning of the 12th that shocked and saddened me.

The nurse of the local vet's was going to work and found Tom lying dead between two parked cars -he'd been run over that morning. Tom was a wanderer, and he was enjoying going out for longer and longer adventures, but unfortunately he never got a chance to get streetwise enough to avoid cars...
Interestingly -and spookily- that very morning Will was miaowing in the most unusual way (distress calls, rather than his usual "feed me" miaows) and Kevin and I wondered and asked "What's this about, what's wrong?". There clearly was something wrong with his brother, only we still didn't know. Did WILL know?

Kevin and me are missing him lots, and Kevin and I felt that Will, who clearly misses his brother, could do with a friend to keep him company. So we went to Batterse D&C home and we are soon getting a beautiful little tabby-ball-of-fluff kitten.

I will be a few interesting weeks with the process of keeping them separate until they get used to each others smells (I'm sure there will be a few sniffs from under the door). The little one will be kept in a room upstairs for a while.

So there you are. We're just hoping the new kitty doesn't turn out to be another wanderer, and if he does, that at least that he becomes streetwise very quickly -for all our sakes!

We are expecting a call very soon to go and pick up Tom's ashes from the vet. At the weekend we got a lovely skimmia (red-berry bush), because Tom always wore a red collar, and we will be planting it in the garden using Tom's ashes.

I hope all this doesn't sound too sentimental to you, but I know that if you've ever had a pet you'll understand how sad it can be to lose one. It's amazing how much they make you love them the little buggers!
Fran

Pawsport picture

Tom's grown a lot and he said it was time he had a passport. He got a Pawsport Picture, but he isn't going anywhere!