Since I featured Kona our dog in yesterdays’s blog, I thought I’d better give equal time to Lucifer our cat, on today’s blog, so we don’t have any antagonism between our pets. I have always admired the way that cats are able to curl up and relax, and Lucifer certainly has it down to a science. Now in her dotage, she spends about 90% of her time snoozing in her “nest,” the padded seat of two folding chairs with a blanket over it. (Photo below).
Strangely in her old age, she has developed the unusual habit of beginning a series of pleading/haunting sounds every time she jumps up into her nest, and begins to circle around as a precursor to her naps. Her pitiful whiny sounds are somewhat disturbing in nature, but I am pretty sure it is not the result of any pain. I hear her do it several times during the night, after she gets up prowls around the sleeping house then jumps back in her nest.
Lucifer was one of several abandoned cats who lived behind the hardware store in McBride. I was able to pick her up and bring her home when I saw her wandering around Main Street in McBride. She was going to be a “barn cat”, but somehow all the barn cats we adopt, always end up being a “house cats”.
We have had Lucy for 16 years. She is now basically skin and bones, but still has energy to leap, jump, and dart around, when the mood hits her.
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