{"id":1699,"date":"2016-12-29T03:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T11:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2016-12-29T03:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T11:53:22","slug":"thoughts-for-thursday-a-felines-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts for Thursday \u2013 A Feline\u2019s Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lilycatblanket\"Does your cat have a favorite toy, cat bed, place to sleep, hiding place, person, animal friend, visitor, treat? Did she get something for Christmas that she adores? Or did you<\/em> get something for Christmas that she adores?<\/p>\n

I received a plush blanket from my grandniece and Lily has taken it over, as you can see. I don\u2019t know if it is the plushness\u2026coziness\u2026of the blanket that appeals to Lily or if it is all of the cats on it, but she does love this blanket.<\/p>\n

This time of year when it gets cooler, we drape blankets over some of the furniture for Sophie and Lily. They love to climb under the blankets for a long winter\u2019s nap where it\u2019s warm and where they feel protected. They aren\u2019t interested in these \u201ctents\u201d in the summer. But boy do they gravitate to them in the colder months. We always leave heavy blanket-tents for them when we\u2019re going to be gone long enough that we turn off the heater during winter or turn it down considerably.<\/p>\n

Sophie always ALWAYS runs and hides when company comes\u2014especially children. One \"IMG_0583\"day during the holidays, we had visitors with kids. Sophie was in one of her tents in a chair in the living room when they arrived and she stayed there the whole time the guests were here\u2014in the same room. I guess she felt secure and invisible.<\/p>\n

Sophie will venture out from her hiding place to see certain guests, but most of our family and friends have never seen her. She doesn\u2019t hide from anyone who has spent the night here. And there are a couple of neighborhood men who don\u2019t frighten her. She doesn\u2019t climb in their lap or anything, but she will enter the room when they\u2019re here.<\/p>\n

Lily has learned from Sophie and another hidey cat we had to run when the doorbell rings. But if she hears children\u2019s voices among the guests, she\u2019ll come out to greet them. She loves kids. She\u2019s wary, but quite interested in them. Her all-time favorite people are those who interacted with her a lot when she was a kitten. She always comes out to see them. Of course, I\u2019m her favorite person in the whole world and boy do I love that honor. Lily and I have our rituals and if I forget a step, she sure reminds me. She follows me like a puppy. When she was a mere kitten, she used to walk with me between my feet. It was awkward, but awfully cute. Still today, when she\u2019s not in my lap, she\u2019s lying at my feet.<\/p>\n

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