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Photohunt: Musical

Ashton sings very musically!

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We can’t visit to comment right now because the head peep is traveling to Hot-lanta, then writing a hasty novel for NaNoWriMo. We have some posts scheduled, and we will try to read and keep up with everyone’s news. But we won’t really be able to visit everybody properly until the head peep fills up this thermometer with words:

Empty-looking, isn’t it? Once the word thermometer is full, we promise we will be back to visit all of our friends again. She had better hurry up with the words!

Summit Meeting Sunday

Before we could have an easy Sunday, we had to take advantage of a few minutes of window whiffies to have a summit meeting to answer an important question.

Newton: Of course I’m the fairest of them all. I don’t see why we even need to discuss this.

Pierre: I’m not even having this conversation again. This goes the same way every single time, Newton.

Ashton: Silly mancats. I’m the only ladycat, so that makes me the fairest of them all.

With that question settled, we are now ready to get on with our easy Sunday. We hope yours is easy, too!

Almost Tummy Tuesday

Ashton: The head peep wanted a Tummy Tuesday photo of me, but she was too slow.

Then she told me that Mr. Jinx would be looking, and I got all starry-eyed.

(No, that’s not a blue fez on my head. It’s a photographer paying no attention to the background of the image until too late. Good help is so hard to find!)

Truce

Thank you all for your warm welcome to Beau yesterday! There has been more than a little bit of hissing and growling, but there has also been an encouraging amount of peace already, considering Beau arrived so recently. In this photo, Ashton naps on the bottom rung of the cat tree, about two feet from Beau, who just finished bathing.

In general, Pierre hisses at Beau, and Beau growls at everybody else. He seems to be most accepting of Newton, who is the most persistently curious and least likely to hiss or act aggressive.

Beau loves to snuggle and burrow, which is really cute at bedtime. The biggest problem right now is that he came from a free-feeding environment and isn’t getting the idea that he needs to eat at meals very quickly, but we know he can figure it out.

Layla from Cat Wisdom 101 asked about how we managed introductions. We actually did it the totally non-approved way. Beau came out of his carrier and met a curious Newton, then Pierre came in to give his two cents, then Ashton wandered in later. We are prepared to separate him and do more gradual introductions if necessary, but he is an extremely social cat and cries if separated from humans by a door. So it wouldn’t be preferable to do that, if we don’t have to.

We’ll keep you posted about Beau’s progress as he settles into the household. We have lots of other posts in the queue already, since we are preparing for the head peep to be away in November, so if you see less of him than you expect, it isn’t because the peeps love him any less. It’s just because they have a lot more photos of the rest of us right now!

Photohunt: Musical

Summit Meeting Sunday

Almost Tummy Tuesday

Truce

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