Welcome to the Wednesday Cats of Catster! Each week, we share a narrative from one in all 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 really goes into adopting a cat.
This week, I wished to the touch on Ivy’s first few weeks with us, and a few of my favourite first recollections together with her.
Since Ivy was nonetheless a kitten once we received her (in my eyes, she’s nonetheless somewhat child!), she was doing all the 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 so much larger to her. Every little thing needed to be inspected – every part. 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 a variety of cat-proofing round the home.
She arrived in the course of the summer season months, and for these unfamiliar with South Africa and its climate: it was scorching. Actually scorching. Nonetheless, I needed to preserve all the home windows and doorways shut always to make sure she didn’t escape and get misplaced. After all, she was curious in regards to the ‘large outdoors’ and sat by the home windows often to have a peek at what was occurring on the market.
On the time, I used to be additionally the individual protecting our native ‘Backyard Centre’ in enterprise, coming residence with at the very least 4 new vegetation each weekend. She took a liking to at least one plant particularly – and that plant paid the value dearly! Fortunately, it was a True Bamboo plant and never poisonous for her to munch on.
Ivy discovered the place we saved her dry meals and treats in document 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 really very intelligent when it got here to this and was caught red-pawed at some point! The container had been standing on the counter, and she or he was on high 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 at the present time, and it by no means fails to soften my coronary heart.
Bathe time was particularly attention-grabbing, together with her sitting on the bathe mat or the bathroom with a puzzled look, attempting to determine why the people get into an enormous 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 a variety of enrichment. This was when she received her first correct cat tree, which she ‘helped’ to assemble.
As quickly because the field arrived, she appeared to understand 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 by way of a lot in our three years collectively, however I’ll treasure the primary few months of her kittenhood eternally!
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 in regards to the dreaded F-word: FLEAS!
This text options Crystal and Ivy in our Wednesday Cats of Catster collection.
