Rupert

Nostalgia seems to be my theme at the moment. Back to happier days, I guess.

He was the loveliest cat, in looks and in personality and character. When he was 8 months old I took him to a cat show and he charmed everyone so much that we heard people passing by asking if they knew where that orange Rex cat was going next, so they could see what he was getting up to. He patted a passing judge on the backside from within his pen, and played with the tail of the cat in the next pen, much to that cat's annoyance. He won every prize going, got his championship in his first show and I never took him again. I didn't want to demoralize the other cats!

Anyway, we still miss him. Sigh.

Have a lovely Caturday, if you can, all who celebrate.

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Halfway down the stairs
is a stair
where i sit.
there isn't any
other stair
quite like
it.
i'm not at the bottom,
i'm not at the top;
so this is the stair
where
I always
stop...." - a.a. milne

Our two original Cornish Rex cats, Rupert and Molly. Like all cats, they migrate around the house depending on where the sun is shining. In the morning it shines through onto the stairs. I was struck on that particular morning by the wavy shadows of the stair balusters next to the curly cats. Rupert was a golden colour, Molly was black.

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#SilentSunday

Badger is feeling better.

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Poor Badger doesn't care for dentistry!

She had a lot of teeth removed about 10 days ago (she suffers from resorption), so that's pretty traumatic in itself. To make matters worse the pain medication made her nauseous so she wouldn't eat and when I stopped giving her that medication she was in too much pain to eat the soft canned food. The others offered to help clean her plate but were foiled in the attempt and went off in a sulk. So everyone was pretty miserable, including Steven and me.

She's doing much better now that she's on pain and anti nausea meds she can tolerate. She's eating again and obviously feeling more like herself.

She'll have to go back to have the others removed in 6 months or a year. They didn't want to keep her under the anaesthetic any longer as her blood pressure became difficult to stabilize.

I don't do well when any in my little family are sick.

Here's Badger when she was just back from her surgery.

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