Hi everyone,
I just found this Thread v late last night. I think I spent another hour reading and so kept myself up even longer than I ought. Worth it, I say. Lovely stories, memories to treasure, eh? I hope people are getting lots of photos, videos, and you know, I wish I had thought to try to get some sound recordings? Why don't we do that?
Grandy, those two little ones of yours sound so adorable! & then you are observing the behaviour of cattle...like Bellamy/Attenborough in the bushes, just observing. Your description had me seeing it from your eyes, just like that.
Now I know this is here, I would like to add some memories of Mekitty, for this space.
From the first day when I brought her home, I realised, after her hiding and sleeping and me not finding where, how important it was for me to know where she was, and how, when she was making noise, her presence in my flat felt more real. I decided to encourage her to be a vocal cat. I meowed every time she meowed. I wonder if I really did make a vocal cat even more vocal by doing this. Not to worry, I enjoyed our 'conversations'.
Living alone, I don't bother with closing the bathroom door. Mekitty took to sitting outside, at the back door near the bathroom, when I went in to use the toilet.
She would make little 'mep, mep,' noises.
I responded, "mep, mep."
She said, "mep, mep."
Another kind of conversation?
We chatted until I was done. Then, while washing my hands, she would come in and maybe use her litter tray. Sometimes I had the distinct impression she wanted some privacy, so I would leave her to it.
While water went down the drains, in the sink and shower, & ran through the pipes, we could hear it trickle. She was fascinated by the sound, would go into the shower cubical and paw around the drain.
If I had just had a shower, she would get her paws wet. She didn't like that, and would shake them, and go back for more! I got a cup and trickled water down the drain, just for fun. The way she peered down the drain, I wondered if she thought there was something more than water in there. That wouldn't have surprised me at all.
"Meh, meh", mmMekitty
