{"id":3893,"date":"2019-12-18T05:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2019-12-18T05:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:05:55","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-kitty-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=3893","title":{"rendered":"Wild (and Sometimes Crazy) Wednesday \u2013 Kitty Sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Lily and Sophie are not actually related. They\u2019re what I\u2019d call accidental sisters\u2014sisters who\u2019ve been forced on each other. Or you can look at it from a more positive point of view and say the universe or magical circumstances have brought them together\u2014that they\u2019ve been blessed to have come together in this home. But do they actually like each other? I have to \"\"say that much of the time it seems they\u2019d prefer being the only cat, until someone wants to play.<\/p>\n

Lately, Lily (the tabby) and Sophie (the tortie) are full of energy and eager each night to rumble. After dinner, Lily might perch on a chair back waiting for Sophie to walk by. She\u2019ll pounce and the chase is on. Lily chases Sophie down the hall and Sophie chases her back into the living room. There\u2019s a lot of crouching and springing and butt-wiggling and tail swatting. And it seems to all be fun and games for the kitty sisters.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sometimes they sit close together\u2014usually when waiting for treat time or supper. And sometimes, while sitting close, they get cranky\u2014maybe from waiting. Sophie will give Lily a look and Lily seems to know exactly what it means, so she swishes her tail and puts her ears back. They stare at each other, then one might dive full-bodied into the other one. Or one will raise a paw. The other one will raise a paw. Then it\u2019s a stare-down until one of them walks away or challenges. Who knows what goes through their little heads. All I know is that no one ever bleeds. That\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n

While these two do not curl up and snuggle together, they do share sun puddles on the \"\"living room floor on a nice day. They also share space around the heater on a cold day\u2014one on each side of it.<\/p>\n

I think the two cats like having each other around for entertainment purposes. They seem to miss each other if one is spending the day or overnight at the veterinarian, for example. So there seems to be some caring there, but they aren\u2019t particularly close. I see pictures of unrelated cats curled up so closely together that you can\u2019t tell where one cat ends and the other begins. It\u2019s so cute. I\u2019d love to have two cats who will snuggle like that. The closest our any of our cats have come to being snugglers is when our large snowshoe-\"\"type boy, Max, and Lily would hide together under the blankets when the gardeners were here. They\u2019d also curl up together on me when I\u2019d lay on the couch\u2014but not exactly together. Max would crawl under the blanket to snuggle with me and Lily would lay exactly on top of him. That was cute.<\/p>\n

I miss seeing cats relate so sweetly\u2014even if it wasn\u2019t exactly fur touching fur. I mean out in the open those two cats\u2014Max and Lily\u2014seemed to be strangers.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve decided that Lily and Sophie are more like roommates rather than soul mates. And that\u2019s okay, too\u2014as long as there is some \u201clike\u201d between them. Me? I love them both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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