Welcome to the Wednesday Cats of Catster! Each week, we share a narrative from certainly one of 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 truly goes into adopting a cat.
This week, I needed to the touch on Ivy’s first few weeks with us, and a few of my favourite first recollections along with her.
Since Ivy was nonetheless a kitten once we bought her (in my eyes, she’s nonetheless slightly child!), she was doing the entire issues kittens often do! Sleeping A LOT, zooming round almost 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 residence for us people, it clearly appeared lots greater to her. Every part needed to be inspected – the whole lot. 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 quite a lot 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 sizzling. Actually sizzling. Nonetheless, I needed to preserve the entire home windows and doorways shut always to make sure she didn’t escape and get misplaced. After all, she was curious concerning the ‘large outdoors’ and sat by the home windows incessantly to have a peek at what was happening on the market.
On the time, I used to be additionally the particular person protecting our native ‘Backyard Centre’ in enterprise, coming residence with at the least 4 new crops each weekend. She took a liking to at least one plant specifically – and that plant paid the value dearly! Fortunately, it was a True Bamboo plant and never poisonous for her to munch on.
Ivy found out the place we stored her dry meals and treats in report 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 truly 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 she or he was on prime of the counter attempting to knock it off in order that the lid would pop off.
After all, her cute pink mattress was utterly unused! As a substitute, 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, attempting to determine why the people get into a giant 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 quite a lot of enrichment. This was when she bought her first correct cat tree, which she ‘helped’ to assemble.
As quickly because the field arrived, she appeared to realize it was for her! This cat tree remains to be with us and will get used day by day!
These recollections are however a drop within the ocean – we’ve gone via a lot in our three years collectively, however I’ll treasure the primary few months of her kittenhood without end!
What are a few of your fondest recollections along with your kitty?
Catch us on Catster.com subsequent month, the place I’ll be speaking concerning the dreaded F-word: FLEAS!
This text options Crystal and Ivy in our Wednesday Cats of Catster sequence.
