{"id":989,"date":"2016-01-20T05:43:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T13:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=989"},"modified":"2016-01-20T05:43:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T13:43:39","slug":"wild-and-sometimes-crazy-wednesday-cat-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/?p=989","title":{"rendered":"Wild and Sometimes Crazy Wednesday–Cat Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MeowThe reviews are coming in for Klepto Cat Mystery number 14, Meow for the Money<\/em>. Read the one Michele at Miki\u2019s Hope wrote this morning: http:\/\/www.mikishope.com\/2016\/01\/book-review-meow-for-money-klepto-cat.html<\/a> And the reviews for A Picture-Purrfect Christmas<\/em> are pouring in at Amazon. We\u2019re up to 35 this morning. The majority of reviewers are quite taken with the stories, the cats, and the characters.<\/p>\n

As Michele wrote in her review, some cats are very smart. They can figure things out, they recognize or become somehow conditioned to the time of day, they learn how to get what they want from their people, and cats develop meaningful and working relationships for themselves. Have you ever noticed, a cat might like another household pet or a neighbor\u2019s pet, and not others? They don\u2019t behave the same with all other animals. For example, our cats are indoor pets and there are two outdoor cats who travel through our yard occasionally\u2014Rocket and George. Both cats are orange tabbies. Now our cats rather enjoy watching George through the windows and they\u2019ll touch noses through the glass with her on occasion. But they go into a rage when they see Rocket anywhere near this house. They despise him.<\/p>\n

Within the Fry feline family, six-year-old Lily is the nosey Rosie and the caretaker. If she<\/p>\n

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Lily<\/p><\/div>\n

hears us scold one of the other cats or laugh at them or simply talk to them, she appears on a dead run, alert and interested in what\u2019s going on. She keeps a close eye on 17-year-old Max. When he\u2019s on the move in the house, she\u2019s on his tail, accompanying him wherever he wanders. When he\u2019s having his nails trimmed, getting combed, or being given medicine, she\u2019s right there watching. I still haven\u2019t figured out if she\u2019s being supportive or nosey.<\/p>\n

However, she and 11-year-old Sophie have quite a different relationship. They\u2019re playmates. Before scurrying off through the house together, up and over furniture, they generally have a standoff\u2014each trying to stare down the other, paw with claws at the ready for attack. After several minutes of the stare-down, one will leap at the other and they grapple for a second before racing off together. Those two crack me up\u2014they have so much silly fun.<\/p>\n

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Sophie<\/p><\/div>\n

The resident cats have special people in their lives. Lily stays close to me. She\u2019s my shadow, my bed partner, my lap sitter, unless Dennis is in the kitchen, then he\u2019s her favorite\u2014he might drop a piece of cheese or chicken, for heaven\u2019s sake, and she doesn\u2019t want to miss that highlight of the day. She also loves children who visit.<\/p>\n

Sophie is Dennis\u2019s cat pure and simple. Oh she\u2019ll let me pet her now and then, but Dennis is her person. She\u2019s totally enamored with him.<\/p>\n

Max, being the most deeply feral of the three, bonded with me early on and, to this day, I\u2019m the only one he trusts. He will allow petting from Dennis on his terms and only briefly and he\u2019ll be somewhat cordial to any overnight guest. But he hides from anyone else who steps foot in this house\u2014even those who visit often, our petsitter, for example. Children? Oh my gosh, he\u2019s petrified of them.<\/p>\n

As for the other cats, he\u2019s afraid of Sophie (who\u2019s half his size and weight), and he tolerates \"alyzaykittiesjan2010-038\"Lily. Otherwise, he\u2019s a loner\u2014a maverick\u2014and you might even say, eccentric. I say, he\u2019s entitled at his age\u2014we\u2019ll celebrate his eighteenth birthday in April\u2014most likely while he\u2019s hiding under the bed.<\/p>\n

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The reviews are coming in for Klepto Cat Mystery number 14, Meow for the Money. Read the one Michele at Miki\u2019s Hope wrote this morning: http:\/\/www.mikishope.com\/2016\/01\/book-review-meow-for-money-klepto-cat.html And the reviews for A Picture-Purrfect Christmas are pouring in at Amazon. We\u2019re up … 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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989"}],"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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.matilijapress.com\/catscapades\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}