Welcome to the Wednesday Cats of Catster! Each week, we share a narrative from one among our cat-loving Catsters. This week is about Crystal and her soul cat, Ivy.
Hello, Catsters!
The final time you heard from me, I mentioned how I prepped for Ivy’s arrival and the way a lot preparation really goes into adopting a cat.
This week, I wished to the touch on Ivy’s first few weeks with us, and a few of my favourite first reminiscences along with her.
Since Ivy was nonetheless a kitten once we acquired her (in my eyes, she’s nonetheless just a little child!), she was doing the entire issues kittens often do! Sleeping A LOT, zooming round practically simply as a lot, and doing a ton of exploring.
We lived in a duplex at the moment, and though it felt like a tiny-ish dwelling for us people, it clearly appeared quite a bit larger to her. All the things needed to be inspected – all the pieces. No stone was left unturned, no cabinet left unsniffed, and no crevice or crack proved too small for her to suit into. This led to plenty of cat-proofing round the home.
She arrived in the course of the summer time months, and for these unfamiliar with South Africa and its climate: it was scorching. Actually scorching. Nonetheless, I needed to preserve the entire home windows and doorways shut always to make sure she didn’t escape and get misplaced. In fact, she was curious in regards to the ‘massive outdoors’ and sat by the home windows steadily to have a peek at what was happening on the market.
On the time, I used to be additionally the individual maintaining our native ‘Backyard Centre’ in enterprise, coming dwelling with not less than 4 new crops each weekend. She took a liking to at least one plant specifically – and that plant paid the worth dearly! Fortunately, it was a True Bamboo plant and never poisonous for her to munch on.
Ivy discovered the place we stored her dry meals and treats in file time and tried to crack open the container a number of occasions a day till I lastly shut it away behind closed doorways. She was really very intelligent when it got here to this and was caught red-pawed in the future! The container had been standing on the counter, and he or she was on prime of the counter making an attempt to knock it off in order that the lid would pop off.
In fact, her cute pink mattress was fully unused! As an alternative, a lot to my delight, she slept curled up subsequent to my face or in my arms. She nonetheless does this to today, and it by no means fails to soften my coronary heart.
Bathe time was particularly fascinating, along with her sitting on the bathe mat or the bathroom with a puzzled look, making an attempt to determine why the people get into an enormous field to be sprayed with water. Kitty-nightmare, a lot?
After some time, I started noticing that she was bored. Seeing as she was an indoor cat, she wanted plenty of enrichment. This was when she acquired her first correct cat tree, which she ‘helped’ to assemble.
As quickly because the field arrived, she appeared to comprehend it was for her! This cat tree remains to be with us and will get used each day!
These reminiscences are however a drop within the ocean – we’ve gone by a lot in our three years collectively, however I’ll treasure the primary few months of her kittenhood perpetually!
What are a few of your fondest reminiscences along with your kitty?
Catch us on Catster.com subsequent month, the place I’ll be speaking in regards to the dreaded F-word: FLEAS!
This text options Crystal and Ivy in our Wednesday Cats of Catster collection.
