Sasha: Gracie was mean to me!
It’s the peep today! If you’ve been reading along recently, Gracie had a vet visit with a blood test and I (foolishly) brought a new box in for her to “hide in” during her recovery. It wasn’t much of a recovery but in our house, doc visits come with treats (yes for the human’s too).
Gracie loved the box even though it was a short box. She hopped on the flaps and hid under them. She snuck around the box to attack your sneakers. She took her favorite toy inside. She was a happy camper.
All the other cats smelled the box (quality control) and let it alone. It was Gracie’s box. She earned it and she enjoyed it. Until…
Sasha, the house diva, was out of joint with all the attention Gracie was getting. She decided to take a nap IN THE BOX. Yes, you heard me, IN GRACIE’S BOX!
It did not go well.
Gracie came and circled the box. She did the annoying smell every part to Sasha. She flopped the flaps on top of her. Sasha was “unflappable.”
Gracie partially jumped inside the box but there wasn’t enough room. Sasha is a chonker and took up most of it.
That was it. Gracie was done with the good-natured gestures. Now she meant business. She flapped her again this time standing on the flap which was on top of Sasha. Then she pawed at her screeching. Gracie nosed her (pushed her with her nose to get out). After several attempts and a HUGE head womp, Sasha departed with a swinging rump sashay. (We think she does that to be sexy.)
Gracie hopped into the box, circled around a hundred times, tried to cover Sasha’s scent and took a five-minute nap. Then she left for her cushy bed someplace where it’s easy to annoy me. The siege was over. Sasha is almost twice as big as Gracie but that little one is a scrapper. Street smarts. You can’t beat it.
Gracie 1, Sasha 0
Views and Mews by Coffee Kat 
Oh my goodness! This gives “cat fight” an entirely new picture! Gracie does deserve her own space, and it sounds like she can take care of herself! Go Gracie!
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She hasn’t been in the box since. It was sullied!
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Poor Gracie! Good for her for defending what’s hers, but it’s a shame the glory of her box was sullied by Sasha trying to take it over!
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Gracie: Yes, she put her stinky scent in it! Boo!
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Good going Gracie – I hope chonky Sasha did not stretch out the box and that’s why you had to resort to your bed?
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She almost needed a shoe horn to get int it!
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Gracie was holding her breath that Sasha didn’t split the sides!
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Gracie is a force to be reckoned with! Good for you, Gracie. The vision in my head of the Sasha “Swinging Rump Sashay!” Good and brave things come in small gray packages 🙂
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Sasha’s “I can’t believe this happened” walk away stride is pretty funny. She swings it to the left, then swings it to the right with all her fluff just fluffing around.
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Street smarts will get you far in this world. Go Gracie!
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Sometimes I think it gets you farther than book smarts.
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Siblings!! Sometimes they just have to be put in their place!
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Gracie: Yes, and I do it so well!
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War inside the house!!! I hope the dust has settled now.
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The box dust has settled. No one, not even Gracie, has been in the box the last day or two.
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Do boxes have sell-by dates for cats???
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They seem to but if I make a move to toss it out, there will be 4 cats looking at me.
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Ha! Ha! You are surrounded by sharp eyes.
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Did Sasha learn her lesson…or is she just waiting for the next box-stealing moment?
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I doubt if she learned her lesson. She’s Sasha, queen of the universe.
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Gracie sounds like a toughie. Glad she protected her box. 🙂
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She’s a tough cat. Very laid back but don’t tread on her.
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Gracie may be small but she is mighty. No cat is going to take over what is hers by rights.
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Exactly what she said!
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Haha! Go, Gracie! You earned the box fair and square.
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You want a box, go get a blood test!
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Gracie rules!
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In her quiet way except when you annoy her.
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Good for you Gracie! Your box, no squatters!!
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Right! No squatters!
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😀
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You gotta appreciate the hierarchy of pets. They know how to keep things real.
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Some times you think you know how they work but you really don’t. Each one has a point at which you can’t push any more. I think Gracie would have scuffled if Sasha didn’t back off. Her box, her rules.
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Forget the underdog, you gotta root for the undercat.
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Gracie avoids conflict. Mostly because she doesn’t do what the other cats want to do. Push her buttons and she’s got her boxing gloves on.
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I love how they have to “re-initiate” territory after there’s been an incursion. LOL Cats – gotta love ’em!!
Hugs, Pam
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Thank God they don’t spray! They do rub their body on it though. Next time I saw Sasha near it, she was sleeping in the cushy bed about 2 foot away from the box. Gracie said that was ok.
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The little one is a scrapper? Why does that not surprise me in the slightest? 🤣🤣🤣
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You have to watch out for those little ones. Napoleon complex.
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Oh yes. I know this well. 🐈⬛
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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You got to know when to fold ’em
Know when to hold ’em
Know when to walk away
And know when to . . . POUNCE!
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Gracie so rarely pounces (she mostly doesn’t care what the other cats do) that it was a treat to watch.
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Go Gracie!
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Sometimes, you just have to take a stand! Good for you, Gracie!
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Especially with Sasha. She takes over.
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Good job Gracie!
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Thanks! I had to protect the fort!
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Yay for Gracie! 🙂
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She feels strongly about her box. She doesn’t like sharing her toy with Sasha either but she will sometimes.
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wow gracie that was girl power … your box is your castle ,O)
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Mine, mine, mine!
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Wow! I guess someone needs to put Sasha in her place once in a while!
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She’s mostly the boss but if she annoys any one of the other cats, they will stand up for themselves. Gus (who is a very passive male cat) occasionally gives her an ear nip when she annoys him. So funny. She looks at him so hurt. Et tu Brutus?
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Hehe!! She’s a character.
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Must have learned that from her foster.
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No way. She had the perfect foster.
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🙂
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“Unflappable,” LOL. The smaller cats have mastered guerrilla tactics, striking quickly and retreating out of range. As long as they don’t get pinned by superior mass, they will win in the end.
Probably because the bigger cat needs their rest.
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She’s the one from a hoarding situation so she learned early about survival. No one puts Gracie in a corner. (or makes her take medicine or can pill her, etc.)
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