Month: September 2017

Humans are encouraged to walk 10,000 steps each day? Well, what about cats? Lately, we observed that around noon, Heidi will walk her “circuit” around the house. It happens like clockwork…every single day. At around noon, she starts. The circuit takes her around the living room, in a very orderly manner. She goes to the…

It is a well-known fact that cats have tremendous patience. The cats take turns to “own” me. At night, it’s usually Vincent’s turn to sit with me. But Ginger, being alpha, doesn’t care about these rules, so he decided to sit with me last night. Vincent wants back his rightful place. He waits, patiently. Not…

It seems unfair that most of our home stories are about the boys, so here’s a girls’ story. The girls are outnumbered now. There are only four of them – Tabs, Heidi, Pole and Cleo. There are seven boys – Cow, Bunny, Indy, Vincent, Tiger, Ginger and Mr Zurik. Tabs loves sitting ON us. Nowadays,…

I invited Mr Zurik into the house this morning, after taiji practice. He came in, settled himself down comfortable and everything appeared to be fine until…. I heard growling at the patio. It was Mr Zurik having a stand-off with (of all people!)….Tiger! Tiger, our calmest and most peaceful cat. I had to break it…

Ginger has been bullying Tabs and Heidi. I think he wants to establish that he’s the alpha now. Every morning, however, he dashes out of Stargate2 when I feed Mr Zurik, because he still wants to hang out for awhile with his BFF. We always wondered why mild-mannered and innocent-looking Ginger would choose Mr KGB-Zurik…

It does seem like Mr Zurik is comfortable in his “old” routine now and other cats have stopped trying to take over his position in our porch because…. ….Mr Zurik is back! I rule!!! Yes, he’s the boss of the porch! And the shoe rack as well! The whole porch belongs to you, Mr Zurik.…