Post by Jenny M BensonPost by Rosalind Mitchell(Jenny, what's the current state of the menagerie? I seem to have lost
the thread somewhere)
Feisty (aka to you as HonoraryBCDog) is still going strong 4 months
short of her 14th birthday. Very fit and very active. She acquired a
baby sister in 2016 in the form of a Tibetan Spaniel named Plum and
proved to be an excellent rôle model - much less jealous and more
tolerant than I expected! Plum is a darling with a well-developed sense
of humour, is a real chatterbox and is spoiled rotten. (She has helped
HBCD release a couple of books!)
Oh good for Feisty! She was pretty much exactly the same age as my
Tosca cat, sadly lost to cancer 18 months ago. I loved Tosca to bits
but she was never a /nice/ cat; she had a disagreeable temper
sometimes and was pathologically jealous of anybody who threated to
come between me and herself (well-named then). Now I share my Glasgow
pad with Dinky, diminutive marble tabby female who may be 7 years old
and possibly has some Bengal in her judging by her spotty tummy, which
she loves to have rubbed and tickled, and Pepper who is a
black-and-white male possibly 4 years old. They came to me as an
established pair via Cats Protection from a clearly loving family who
discovered that their daughter was allergic. Being Glaswegian cats
they are handy with the malky (head-butt), and are very lively and
mischievous. They have regular scraps that involve them running round
the flat and stopping now and then for a grapple, but otherwise they
get on very well together. Dinky is friendly in an in-yer-face way and
a little tart who will go to anybody and doesn't mind being picked
up. Pepper is rather more reserved and hides from visitors, although
his curiosity gets the better of him and eventually he will come to
get his ears tickled. He definitely does not like being picked up and
fights back lustily if you try. He was called Oreo when he arrived but
I wasn't having that and called him Pepper because he has a hell of a
kick.
Photos are available on request.
My late ex (Louise, who died at the start of last year) had Tibbies,
three of them. They were noisy and a handful but great fun.
Rotaa