From My Hiding Places

Takoda Crow our foster child (son)

Been busy teaching Takoda Crow some manners. Young cat not quite 5 months old and he needs instruction such as thou shalt not mark territory in the female cats room via spraying it down with cat pee. Mel had to come in with a broom and sweep up after him because he likes to strew litter when he uses the litter box and Mother had to come in with the mop and some Pinesol and clean up cat pee. Crow is going to be a big male Siamese cat as at not even 5 months he is already a little bigger than me. Of course, I am a small Siamese cat not tiny but little not skinny not fat just medium at about 10 to 12 lbs and usually no more. Crow already weighs at least 12 lbs. and he is longer than me. Arrogant kitty too just sits on that bed and stares defiantly at Mel when she comes into the room daring her to say something to him but he’s always surprised that she can stare him down. Rebellious and arrogant yet & still he loves Mel, just adores her and has to leave his hiding place to go and see her. One of these days he’s going to let her pet him actually pet him instead of just touching his head. He’s our foster son Leah’s and mine. We’ve both been Mother cats so we can raise him like two maiden aunts. Takoda Crow doesn’t much care for the Pinesol but usually he won’t spray where it has touched as if the trees have peed there before him. Don’t understand this need for the male cats to soak things in their urine. Females don’t do this and it’s not like there’s another male cat in the room and Morse won’t visit our room these days or mainly won’t, just visits with us out in the hall. He’s extremely jealous now of Mel spending any time with us too, gets all upset and bangs on his door and wall with his paws to let her know he doesn’t approve and then Rrowr’s at us in displeasure. He does like Crow, however, and has let him play in his room many a day. They like to play chase and sometimes nip each other’s tails. Generally they don’t hurt each other.

We’ve decided we like our lamp off -- almost all of the time since Crow kept knocking the lamp down and not breaking the bulb as in shattering it but rendering it useless. Once the lamp was turned off, he stopped it. He doesn’t much care for light bulbs unless the lamp is extra shaded. He prefers natural daylight and likes it fairly dark at night -- usually not completely dark. Mother or Mel turn on the tv for us and so we have voices to keep us company though we’ve long since learned that those people never step out of that box just stay inside and talk. We’ve even climbed on top to sniff of them but doesn’t phase them and they really don’t have much of a smell -- just the dust scent on the tv screen sometimes since our cat litter isn’t quite as dust free as it says on the bag and the smell of the stuff Mel and Mother use to wipe down the tv screen. The moon and stars at night are wonder purr and once our eyes adjust to the low light we can see the chipmunks and moles running around in the yard at night though we don’t like those things called bats that swoop past our window. Glad we have our rabies shots says Mel & Mother even though most bats don‘t actually have rabies. They say these are normal black bats plus the tiny brown vampire bats and bigger black vampire bats. The dogs go nuts too and Mel won’t even take them off leash some nights because the bats are so bad.

There goes Morse (Henry) again banging on his door. Mel thinks it’s unnatural for him to have light all the time so she’s making him adjust to longer and longer time periods of darkness but never all night. Makes him really, really mad too because he’s really well adjusted to getting his way and Mel does spoil him too. She has to stay in the room with him while he eats his canned food and sometimes she has to pet him too. Heard him out wandering the house while the dogs were outside too. He’s been confined to quarters for his escapes two days in a row -- no one day and then he was good and then the day after again.
Mreow, Thomasina The Countess of Monte Cristo