We are coming up on three weeks with this new girlcat and it seems like she’s always been here. That is the sign of a perfect adoption. It doesn’t always happen that way.
Gracie’s initial time here was stressful because she had health issues that culminated in dental surgery and special food for crystals (and Xanax for her owner!).
Morgan came with parasitic amoebas that made us all crazy with meds. That experience produced one of my favorite posts about medicating multiple cats including old cat Jake who was very vocal about it.
Sasha was seamless. No drama. I kept waiting for the shoe to drop and it hasn’t…yet.
Part of a feral colony, she was trapped when she was a very young kitten and socialized by a rescue group. Like many cats, she didn’t do well at adoption events preferring to hide from the hordes of people who came to see her beautiful markings. She spent almost a full year in rescue. A long time for a young cat.
I was connected through a friend. I had a vacancy although I wasn’t expecting to fill it. There was a need that I couldn’t ignore.
She came home between snow storms. She has an in-door voice that is soft, high-pitched and squeaky. It’s rather cute. You can barely hear it. Unfortunately her other voice sounds like a full-grown bull moose in heat and she used that voice to sing the song of her people on the hour plus ride home from her foster mom. Yikes!
She was shy for exactly 24 hours. She is besties with Gracie and has joined the in-house soccer team that plays at 3 a.m. She is the goalie. It’s all the hooting and hollering. I keep checking the walls for dings.
She is a voracious eater and cleans up everyone’s plate. Sometimes they aren’t done eating. We have to send her to manners classes although Mollie’s version is a swat on the nose. Quite effective.
She loves playing and lying in sun spots. She also loves climbing in a warm lap for a nap but not for long. She has things to do and cats to annoy.
Lucky for me, she doesn’t take a bad picture.
♥!
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Love that last photo….they get themselves in the most unusual positions..:)
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Yes they do!
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She’s a beauty, Kate. I keep telling H we need an inside cat. Foster is feral and likes it that way. I wouldn’t trust him inside for any length of time. He was a stray who stayed around.
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I won’t have an outdoor cat again (unless I feed a feral that won’t come in like you are doing). We have coyotes and foxes looking for dinner here. I’m fortunate to have a screened porch where they can enjoy the outdoors without being really outdoors. I can’t imagine being without a pet. I’m trying to downsize cats (like I’m trying to downsize possessions) but somehow it’s not working.
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She’s really a sweetheart I’d say, and it sounds like you would, too! What a happy cat home! 😊
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She has certainly added energy!
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What a doll. If I didn’t love dogs so, I’d get a cat.
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If dogs weren’t so much work, I’d have one of those too!
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What a nice update!
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Such a beautiful girl! So glad she is fitting in so well – for her and for you guys!
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Today the soccer game resumed at 6:30 a.m. Perhaps I can send her for a visit?
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LOL! I’ll see if team Anchorage needs a new goalie 🙂
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I’m glad Sasha has made friends and is doing so well. Love that three-cat photo.
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It’s almost like a card game without the cards.
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It was totally meant to be! 🙂
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Must have been.
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She is so photogenic! Is Mollie the Model jealous of her Instagram-worthy poses? I love that they all get along so well. I’m not sure I’d be as welcoming if a strange human was introduced to our home.
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We don’t welcome humans as warmly as cats and they aren’t allowed to stay!
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I love the picture of the 3 of them – the older cats look so indulgent (It’s all facade, I know HAHA)
She’s perfect and purrrfect.
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Morgan especially looks like a nun overseeing a play group.
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It’s wonderful that all the cats get along. You deserve that!
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It is wonderful and thanks!
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She is a beauty. I am glad everything worked out so well.
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Me too.
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Photogenic and well-behaved too … you lucked out for sure with Sasha.
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I feel like I deserved her after this crazy year.
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That’s for sure – Sasha is the balm.
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Sometimes the best fosters occur when there’s another 4 paws to guide the newby along the ropes. Here’s to more easy times with your adorably cute ‘stashy’ girl.
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You are definitely right! I always suggest people adopt in pairs if they don’t have one at home.
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Sam has been diligently teaching Ninja Elsa how to be a dog since she lived in a cage for more than 4 years. I doubt she’d have come out of her cave without that knucklehead showing her the ropes. And I’m grateful every. single. day. for it.
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Hugs to her. Don’t. like. cages.
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We’re in the same camp there.
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I’m so happy to hear that she is fitting in so well and loving her forever home. Sounds like the other kitties are fond of her too, and know just how to put her in her place when she gets out of hand. Congrats.
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Thanks. We are all lucky!
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Hey Kate, Did you check out my last post? I’m curious what you think of the latest privacy invasion into our lives.
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I just checked it out. In my reader I only saw the first sentence and I thought it was something else. I responded there. I went to a new doc at the beginning of the year and was surprised when the form asked for my SS#. Nope. You don’t need it anymore so I’m not giving it to you!
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Yeah, maybe you thought some crazy lady was really asking you to give you her phone number online. 😉 Thank you for coming over and reading it.
Oh yeah, I stopped giving out my SS# a while ago. One time a doctor’s office insisted I do it, so I transposed a couple of the numbers. They really didn’t need it like they insisted, cause if they did, I would’ve gotten a call that it wasn’t correct.
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Yes, I thought you were a crazy lady asking for my phone #! 🙂
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😀
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This post made my heart smile 💕 I especially loved the photo of the 3 cats playing soccer. I get the sense from that one photo that she is a little spitfire 🙂
Glad to hear it’s been stress-free so far. She sounds like she’s a happy, well-adjusted little mite.
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She will definitely steal a toy from Gracie or Morgan. They take it in stride.
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She’s definitely a charmer!
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She can melt you with her eyes.
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I think Gracie has truly found a home — and a terrific owner! :O)
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Gracie has for sure but so has Sasha.
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Happy kitties. :O)
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I’m glad she’s doing so well. Her different vocalizations sound like our tortie Olive. My husband says that her tiny meow kills him. But when she’s mad, watch out! You can hear her throughout the whole house!
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Yes, it’s scary. She weighs 8 lbs and can make the noise of a 1000 lb. moose!
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She’s a sweetheart and I’m so glad she’s settled in OK.
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We are grateful it was painless. It all happened at the same time as my brother’s accident so it was hectic and I really didn’t need more drama.
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Hope they are getting on OK.
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They are. Slow but sure.
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Glad to hear that Kate.
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She truly does sound like she was custom made for your house. Mollie should get some target practice, after all. Did she have other cats in her previous place? Some cats and dogs never feel safe unless they see that other dogs and cats are there and doing okay. When our dog Fey got freaked out and hid behind trashcans, she wouldn’t come out until she saw Woofie happily playing with my husband.
And then there’s Bossy Cat, who doesn’t believe in hiding. She ate immediately and sought out dogs to harass.
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Since she came from a feral group, she was used to having cats around. Her rescue has cat rooms instead of cages. She was fostered for a while by herself but she adapted to cat company right away. Hazel wouldn’t come out from under the bed until Mollie convinced her it was safe. It took two weeks. I has a cat like Bossy except she was the cat from hell. She didn’t like cats or dogs. She chased a greyhound out of our yard. Damn cat lived to be 18! I got Jake when she was older and had to keep them separate or there were deep bites. That’s my only criteria now. I don’t care if they are missing a limb or an eye but they have to get along with other cats. Awww…sweet Fey. So glad she found you. Hope Bossy isn’t too hard on her.
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Rooms instead of cages seems like an excellent idea. Harder to clean, but nicer for the animals. Fey doesn’t really know what to make of Bossy. So she avoids her. Woofie, of course, is always up for playtime.
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Most of our local shelters here have cat rooms saving cages for the ill or anti-social cats. Much nicer to visit and probably not much harder to clean that a whole bunch of crampy cages.
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Wonderful, happy and upbeat post. Can’t wait to meet her.
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She should come out for you. She’s getting less shy all the time. Yesterday we had a worker here and she didn’t hide from him at all.
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isn’t that the best thing to see that they made your house to theirs? that’s how it should be concats!!!
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Yes. We are not big on discipline here preferring to “convince” the cats to do the right thing. Amazingly it sometimes works.
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Love that she’s already a “team player.” 😀
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Yes and a very active team player.
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I love the photo of the three playing soccer, Kate. It reminded me of playing Jacks with my friends as a little girl. 🙂
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I remember Jacks and that’s exactly how we sat!
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🙂
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I love cats! But my daughter is severely allergic (think wheezing and eyes swelling shut) so I don’t have cats as pets anymore, because I want her to be comfortable when she comes to visit. So I love living vicariously through others who have cats. Thank you Kate!
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I have a friend who is allergic. She cat sat for me once a long time ago. For some reason she decided to stay overnight and my one cat slept next to her face. She woke up to a swollen face and a rash. Staying there wasn’t the plan so I didn’t feel too guilty about it but I found another cat sitter for future trips.
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A most wonderful post! She is darling. I love the little patch under her chin… 🙂 Delighted she is a Sassy Cat!!!
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She’s quite the character. I still can’t believe how fast she fit in with the other cats. There is usually a few days of posturing but we had none of that.
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What a cute picture and her name is so perfect! So what’s the name of their soccer team, every team needs a good name! 🙂
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I’ll have to ask them!
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🙂
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She really is gorgeous! It sounds like it was about time for an easy transition cat. Glad everybody welcomed her into the clowder. 😉
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I can honestly say I wasn’t relishing the first few weeks based on my other experiences. This one was a piece of cake.
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I so love that she is with you and such a good fit. Happy, happy heart!!
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I love happy endings too. We did have a kerfuffle this week. She refused to eat the Friskies that she always eats. She ate everyone’s Fancy Feast instead and whined for more food. Fortunately the next day she was back to her normal Friskies. Maybe a bad can.
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Isn’t it great when something works out without any stress? She’s a cutie pie. Good job, Kate.
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Yes it is. It doesn’t always work like that but I was lucky. She’s about a year old so she wasn’t a really young cat. Maybe even old Jake would have approved.
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So happy for you Kate with your new kitty who so far is fitting in perfectly and you’re right, she is indeed very photogenic!
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She makes up for Gracie. Gracie is not photogenic. I have to work with her for good shots. Her “adoption” shot was so bad that I had to adopt her because no one else would between the one eye and the bad photo. Her remaining eye is small so she doesn’t project the happy look that Morgan does. Mollie is also photogenic. The real problem is the photographic who cannot keep still when taking shots.
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