{"id":4821,"date":"2021-03-05T03:59:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4821"},"modified":"2021-03-05T03:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:59:57","slug":"frivolous-friday-olivia-is-10-months-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=4821","title":{"rendered":"Frivolous Friday \u2013 Olivia is 10 Months Old"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Many of you enjoy my photos of Olivia, the tiny calico we adopted from a local shelter when she was three months old. Well, she turned ten months this week. What an interesting and fun adventure it\u2019s been\u2014delightful and frustrating all at the same time. We adore her. She has brought us a great deal of laughter and joy, but we\u2019ve had few kinks to work out.<\/p>\n

Turns out this kitten is true to her colors\u2014she\u2019s a calico and as you\u2019ve read here and as some of you have \"\"experienced\u2014calicos can be obstinate, stubborn, quirky\u2014maybe a little crazy at times\u2014and some of the most affectionate and fun cats around. What\u2019s an example of her quirky behavior? She attacks the walls in the hallway emitting a shrill chirp that \"\"makes you think she\u2019s being attacked by a swarm of bees or an army of fire ants. She sounds like some exotic monkey swinging from the trees in the jungle. I still leap up from my office chair to make sure she\u2019s okay when I hear that going on. Yeah, she\u2019s fine\u2014just playing, I guess.\"\"<\/p>\n

She lives on the edge. She doesn\u2019t fall as often as she did at first, but she\u2019s still a little clumsy and reckless. She sleeps with some part of her hanging over the edge of the desk, a table, a chair, her cat tree. I guess she has learned her balance points, but she almost always sleeps or rests with her feet and tail and\/or her head dangling over the edge.<\/p>\n

\"\"She\u2019s sturdy and has a sort of cobby body, but she\u2019s tall\u2014oh my is she tall. She has tried for weeks to reach the valance on the large window in the living room. I don\u2019t have curtains in there because we have cats\u2014most of our windows have blinds and valances. But last night for the first time, she managed to stretch tall enough to reach the valance and she got her claws stuck\u2014there she was dangling from the \"\"valance until I rushed to free her. How can we even leave this cat alone at home with only 16-year-old Sophie\u2014I mean once the isolation orders relax more???<\/p>\n

\"\"There are days when Olivia refuses to eat, but it doesn\u2019t seem to be affecting her growth. She now weighs over ten pounds. The cats do have kibbles to nibble on\u2014we free-feed kibbles. I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that there are days when Olivia prefers kitten kibbles to her canned kitten food.<\/p>\n

Olivia is super affectionate, but only when it suits her.\"\" She can be as flighty and aloof as any formerly feral cat\u2014and she will even hide from us. She has hiding places in this house that we can\u2019t even imagine. We joke that she levitates. Seriously, there are times when we call and call for her\u2014we look everywhere for her\u2014suddenly she just appears\u2014as if from thin air. It\u2019s sometimes so eerie, it borders on a \"\"supernatural occurrence.<\/p>\n

Olivia is a comedienne. She\u2019s quite entertaining. She makes up games and sometimes involves us. Occasionally she plays fetch. No kidding. She\u2019ll go find a toy\u2014usually a stuffed mouse and play hard with it. She tosses it, attacks it, tears around the house with it, then jumps up on the sofa with me and drops it in my lap. I toss it and off she goes for another wild play session, then she\u2019ll bring it back to me.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s so unique and interesting that I\u2019m including her as a character in my next Klepto Cat Mystery. In fact, she may have a permanent role in a series of her own. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many of you enjoy my photos of Olivia, the tiny calico we adopted from a local shelter when she was three months old. Well, she turned ten months this week. What an interesting and fun adventure it\u2019s been\u2014delightful and frustrating … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4821\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}