Fortnight 174
Saturday
Nick came again today and they spent the day playing on the playstation. In the afternoon mum went to bed as she still isn't well. I joined her for a nice sleep whilst Ozzy was out playing in the garden.
Monday
New Years Eve
It was a really quiet day in the house today. Mum and dad went out for a meal early this evening and then came back and watched TV until the early hours of the morning. When they went to bed, mum went into our rooms as usual and put food in our bowls. I went straight into my room to get my tea but Ozzy wouldn’t come into his room at all. He hid behind the sofa where mum could not reach him. After a while of trying she gave up and went to bed, giving us the run of the house. It is the first time since Ozzy has been here that we have both had the run of the house at night. I curled up on the bed inbetween mum and dad, but Ozzy spent the night playing and being really noisy.. so we all woke up the next day really tired.
Tuesday
New Years Day
We were all tired today as Ozzy had kept us awake last night. Dad said that he was going to keep Ozzy awake all day, so every time he closed his eyes to go to sleep dad started shaking him and calling him to wake him up! He did this all day so that at bedtime he was shattered and went straight into his room!
Wednesday
A miracle has happened! Mum has decided that she is tired of Ozzy eating my food all the time and has decided to feed us exactly the same food. Ozzy has now realised where his bowl is and has stopped eating out of mine all the time. I am actually getting some food now… wonderful!
Mum took all the decorations down today and tidied up the house. It looks really odd now it is back to normal again!
Ozzy was so bored and fed up with the TV schedule that he decided to rip up the TV guide and use it as a toy rather than a guide.
Thursday
The house was full of guests again today and Ozzy and I hid upstairs as we are not very sociable to people we don’t know very well. They went late afternoon and we came downstairs. Instead of fighting tonight we started to play with each other. We chased each other around the room and then we were playing around the scratching post.
Monday
Dad started back at work today and the house returned to its usual routine.
Tonight Ozzy decided that he would pick his own sachet of food for tea as he doesn’t like mum’s choices sometimes! He spent ages with his head in the packet, but he couldn’t manage to get a sachet out!
Tuesday
Mum had visitors today and once again we both hid upstairs for a while whilst they were here.
Tonight we were playing with each other again. I was lying on the floor and Ozzy was batting my front paws and rolling over.
Wednesday
This morning we were both in the neighbours’ garden and we were playing chase. Mum was watching from the window upstairs and I saw her laughing at us!
We came in for breakfast and spent the rest of the day sleeping on the bed.
Thursday
I spent today asleep in my hiding place in the spare bed, which I thought no-one knew about. However, I was wrong, because this afternoon mum dragged me out and put me in the cat carrier and took me to the vets. She is concerned as I appear to have lost a lot of weight and she wanted me to have some blood tests. When we got to the vets I got weighed and I had only lost 0.1Kg since October. The vet shaved my neck to get a blood test but I started to struggle and bit him! He then shaved my leg and tried again, but again I struggled and bit him. He tried from my neck again and got bitten again, then he went to tell mum that they couldn’t get a blood sample to do the tests and that I would have to go back again when I was a bit calmer! I escaped the needles – how amazing, although I do think I will be back again before too long!
Also this afternoon, Ozzy was outside for ages, he seems to be more confident going outside now. He came back with a massive blackbird that he had caught, it is his first catch.. he usually runs off with the things that I bring home. I was surprised he managed to catch such a large bird. He proudly left it by the front door and came inside with his paws full of black feathers.
Monthly Summary
Favourite toy: Laser Pen
Favourite place: In my own radiator bed
Favourite pastime: Playing
Least favourite thing: Cold weather
Confessions
of a Mad Cat
