01 Saturday Jun 2024
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Nothing I love more than having this girl curled up on my lap, her little cheek resting against the arm of the chair, seeing her so completely relaxed and trusting and not wanting to be anywhere else. Morcilla owns my heart. 🧡 🐈⬛ 🐾
16 Saturday Mar 2024
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My little monkey Azar shortly after I brought him home from his previous street life. Way back in 1995! I couldn’t have known then that this tiny little guy would end up owning my heart, but there you go. We had 16 love-filled years together. I still miss him, his quirky ways, his humour (only cat I’ve ever known with an actual sense of humour), his ferocious love… and of course there is Morcilla now who often channels Azar (they were born on the same day 18 years apart), but this guy was totally one of a kind. Anyone who has had the good fortune to meet him will confirm this. Happy Caturday! 🐈⬛ ❤️🐾
08 Saturday Apr 2023
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This is really just wishful thinking… a pic taken a couple of years ago. Since Morcilla’s operation Luna has been so hostile towards her, growling and hissing if she gets too close. At first I thought it was because of the “vet smell” or that the cone was scaring Luna, but even without those things she is still being weird. It could be because since the op I’ve been keeping Morcilla “locked in” with me at night and also shut her in my room when both Peter and I are out, so maybe Luna feels excluded? I dunno. But tonight we go back to normal in that I will start keeping my bedroom door ajar again and remove Morcilla’s “camping gear” (food dishes and litter box) so that both cats can have access if they want. It would be so nice to see them cuddle up together again.
29 Wednesday Mar 2023
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Honestly Morcilla has been so good about resigning herself to the DREAD CONE. She has only slipped it off once when I wasn’t home and Peter got it back on her again. But everyone needs a break now and then, so every couple of days I’ve been taking the cone off, giving it a good hot soapy wash, and letting Morcilla roam unfettered for an hour or so. Of course under my watchful eye so she won’t scratch at her stitches. And the first thing she wants to do is groom herself. Even though I’ve been wet-combing her to get dust and whatnot off her coat she still wants to cover herself in cat spit. Which is a mystery that I have never solved. How is it that cats have pretty vile breath (if you get up close) but after slathering cat gob all over themselves they smell fresh as a spring morning?
So we have another week of camping out in my room at night with the door closed so Morcilla doesn’t get into any trouble. I reckon if she can put up with the damn cone then I can put up with being shut inside my bedroom overnight.
27 Monday Mar 2023
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Just home from the vet’s from another post op check up and antibiotic jab (last one) and found out the biopsy results had come back. And it’s benign!!! OMG. I don’t even know how to feel. I mean of course I am so relieved and happy and all that but I’ve been so wound up tight since the operation, well even before that, I think it’s going to take a bit for it all to sink in. But yeah, I can breathe again. That feels good. And my girl is on the mend.
The hard part now will be that Morcilla has to keep the dread collar on for another week (we go to get the stitches taken out a week tomorrow) and there’s no way she’s going to like that. We will also have to keep camping out in my bedroom at night with her own food and water dishes and litter box. In part to keep her in check (she’s already learned how to take the cone off) but also to keep her separated from Luna, who is being a hissy-spitty weirdo.
Ufff, can I tell you? Since I was little I have never been able to sleep with my bedroom door closed. Nor can I sleep in the dark. The door thing I can just about manage but I’ve had to rearrange the nightlight situation so there’s an extra one in my room now. But being closed off all night means that Luna (who used to love curling up under the sheets with me) is now bedding down with Peter and I can see that at the end of all this she will probably remain with him. Cat bed politics.
But the important thing is omg omg omg… Morcilla is going to be okay. I was so scared to even hope after taking Loki in for what I thought was a routine check up and then a week later he was gone. Anyhow, for now it’s all good. Thanks to everyone for your good wishes.
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