new year, same cat
Jan. 2nd, 2023 09:48 amMr Julian Winterhill Tuppert will play with string! Or at least he'll attack and bite it, which is close enough. So that's two toys (string and red-dot). Both require human intervention, which isn't ideal if I'm gone frequently, but it works.
I'm starting to be able to read him better. The tail-lashing is definitely a sign of Activated, and not in a good way; he was just too scared to do anything other than tail-lashing previously. So now he gets a couple of scritches as I walk by, and more in the morning or at bedtime if he specifically requests, and that seems to be alright for both of us.
On the other hand, he goes straight to bitey if I'm petting him too much. Considering a squirt bottle to reinforce the No Biting Without Consent rule.
He'll still sometimes drape himself over my shin in the evenings if I'm on the good chair with my feet on the ottoman, and that's pretty adorable. On the other hand, he'll sometimes decide that my feet shouldn't be on his ottoman and get bitey, and that's less so. Need to pick up a squirt-bottle.
He's taken to asking for attention by batting the back of my chair. Unfortunately we're dealing with a limited vocabulary, so I have to guess at whether he wants more scritches, playtime, food, his litterbox cleaned, or something else I haven't figured out yet. (Usually it's playtime, unless it's still early morning, in which case it's scritches.)
I would prefer a friendlier people-ier cat, but I'm happy with the one I've got.
I'm starting to be able to read him better. The tail-lashing is definitely a sign of Activated, and not in a good way; he was just too scared to do anything other than tail-lashing previously. So now he gets a couple of scritches as I walk by, and more in the morning or at bedtime if he specifically requests, and that seems to be alright for both of us.
On the other hand, he goes straight to bitey if I'm petting him too much. Considering a squirt bottle to reinforce the No Biting Without Consent rule.
He'll still sometimes drape himself over my shin in the evenings if I'm on the good chair with my feet on the ottoman, and that's pretty adorable. On the other hand, he'll sometimes decide that my feet shouldn't be on his ottoman and get bitey, and that's less so. Need to pick up a squirt-bottle.
He's taken to asking for attention by batting the back of my chair. Unfortunately we're dealing with a limited vocabulary, so I have to guess at whether he wants more scritches, playtime, food, his litterbox cleaned, or something else I haven't figured out yet. (Usually it's playtime, unless it's still early morning, in which case it's scritches.)
I would prefer a friendlier people-ier cat, but I'm happy with the one I've got.