Homeless Cat -- Now Spotacus' Legacy
On 18 Dec, a very large cat showed up at our house. It was late and cold, and he looked in the door and made it clear he wanted inside. Well, since we have two cats already and he was a stranger, we...
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So the Christmas cat has decided he needs to park his fuzzy keister on one of his humans all day every day. We don't know what's going on in that little kitty head, but he's pretty close to clingy right now.
With the air conditioner off and the house opened up, Spotacus can open the screen door and go in/out at will. Instead, he sees a human sit down and makes a beeline for that lap. 17 pounds of cat on lap makes for some steamy humans. Sigh.
Poor guy's skin crawling is back, even though the humidity is right at 50%. He has never liked being combed, even though it helps, so I sneak up on him when he's asleep and comb out as much with the Furminator as possible before he gets seriously upset. It's the only way to keep him from pulling out the growing fur at present.
I can only surmise he's either getting bit by teeny little insects, or he has some kind of allergy.
I have my doubts on the insect bites, because with the Advantage Multi, nothing survives biting him, so it might not have time to inject whatever toxin it may have. Now if he's being stung, that's a different story, but we don't really have much in the way of stinging insects around the house and garden. Yellow jackets have tried to build nests over the years, but they die immediately upon discovery (best friend is highly allergic). Our bees are pretty placid and tend to ignore him, just as he ignores them.
We feed him a grain free cat food. The only grains he gets are in his treats, which we don't overfeed. Otherwise, he's a pretty healthy cat.
He has a new habit. Instead of using his litter box, he poops outside. On the deteriorating asphalt driveway. Yep, anywhere we see a little pile of gravel, there's likely to be some Spotacus marking there. On the upside, since he started doing it, we don't see fox scat on the driveway anymore.
Just on the pool deck...
Ah, well, break's over. Back to the domestic stuff.
Later, y'all.
With the air conditioner off and the house opened up, Spotacus can open the screen door and go in/out at will. Instead, he sees a human sit down and makes a beeline for that lap. 17 pounds of cat on lap makes for some steamy humans. Sigh.
Poor guy's skin crawling is back, even though the humidity is right at 50%. He has never liked being combed, even though it helps, so I sneak up on him when he's asleep and comb out as much with the Furminator as possible before he gets seriously upset. It's the only way to keep him from pulling out the growing fur at present.
I can only surmise he's either getting bit by teeny little insects, or he has some kind of allergy.
I have my doubts on the insect bites, because with the Advantage Multi, nothing survives biting him, so it might not have time to inject whatever toxin it may have. Now if he's being stung, that's a different story, but we don't really have much in the way of stinging insects around the house and garden. Yellow jackets have tried to build nests over the years, but they die immediately upon discovery (best friend is highly allergic). Our bees are pretty placid and tend to ignore him, just as he ignores them.
We feed him a grain free cat food. The only grains he gets are in his treats, which we don't overfeed. Otherwise, he's a pretty healthy cat.
He has a new habit. Instead of using his litter box, he poops outside. On the deteriorating asphalt driveway. Yep, anywhere we see a little pile of gravel, there's likely to be some Spotacus marking there. On the upside, since he started doing it, we don't see fox scat on the driveway anymore.
Just on the pool deck...
Ah, well, break's over. Back to the domestic stuff.
Later, y'all.
