Lately, something kind of weird has been going on. We’ll be in the back yard, me and 348 cats, and Kara will walk up to Reacher, and they’ll briefly touch noses.
And then Reacher will draw back and hiss a little bit.
Then Kara will stare at Reacher for a moment, then turn and walk away.
This is weird because, up until now, if one of the cats or kittens hissed at Kara, she’d hiss back, maybe growl, and then smack then upside the head, whereupon they would turn around and run away. But she never hisses or growls at Reacher, just looks at him and then walks away.
So my question: is she getting mellow in her old age (she’s 3 1/2, after all!), or does she have a crush on Reacher? And if she has a crush, does the age difference (he’s almost 9 months old!) make her a cougar, or not?
He IS awfully pretty.
Yesterday, we trimmed Starsky and Hutch’s claws. That makes it a lot easier to deal with them, especially when I’m deboning chicken in the kitchen and they’re pretty sure they want some, so try to climb up my leg when I’m wearing shorts.
Sugarbutt’s the baby, sometimes. (That’s Fred holding Sugarbutt, by the way, not me!)
Previously
2009: Also making me look OLD: the fact that I am OLD.
2008: Sulking and doing nothing is greatly helped by a sweet little litter of fluffy kittens, if you were curious.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: I’m sorry, but “Sell yourself to me” is Interviewer-speak for “I’m too lazy to come up with a real question, so try to answer this stupid-ass question I read on a bad interview webpage somewhere or perhaps even pulled directly from my ass.”
2004: I cannot stand this song. I cannot stand this video. I am filled with extreme hatred every time I happen across either the song or the video.
2003: We went to see Miss Saigon on Sunday.
2002: No entry.
2001: No entry.
2000: The man drove two hours to spend one hour with his grandchild and then drove two hours back. How cool is that?
1999: May I say that the child gets an UNGODLY amount of presents.
I think Kara has a crush. My Snoopie does that with Boots. Now he is licking her head.
It’s very possible that she likes him in the cougar kind of way. Our first cats Sylvester and Cleopatra were a couple and very devoted to each other for the thirteen years they were togeather. They cuddled togeather and she would put the smack down on our first basset hound Sadie any time Sylvester got underfoot and got stepped on. Cleo hated that dog-she was here for about seven years before we got one-and she was always SURE it was Sadie who hurt him. We used to call her Mother Superior when she hissed and wacked at the dog on Sylvester’s behalf. Sylvester was a year older and Cleo was eight weeks old when she arrived. She hissed and growled the first night but then was cuddling up to him within the first twenty-four hours. We’ve had other pairs of cats but none were ever love struck like those two. I have lots of cut cuddly pictures to help us remember it.
CUTE cuddly pictures!
Go Cougar!
The rubbing noses photos are so sweet! I think she’s got herself a little crush… <3