Oh Louise your cats are just gorgeous!!! The "dude" his sable color on his shoulders is so handsome! My two cats don't particularly like the sewing room, will visit on occasion to see what I'm doing. Now the two dogs are always there.
We were always a one cat family until Girlie Girl adopted us a year and half ago. The neighborhood kids would carry her around and she never clawed them. I watched her for about a week and put some food out...she was starving. My husband wasn't happy...."That cat will never go away." Then she started catching voles and field mice around the outside and DH thought she'd be good to keep around as our house cat NEVER went outside. She was supposed to be a garage cat to catch mice and voles, "Do you agree, Onalee?" Dh said. I said, "Of course she'll be a good mouser for us" ...then I let her into the laundry room, then I let her into the kitchen, then the dining room, then in the evenings she'd sit on my lap .... all the while my DH giving me the 'stink eye' LOL.
Not wanting to add more kitties to the world we took her to be spade and the Vet called and said when he shaved her belly she had a scar that she'd already been spade. He told us that a lot of people are dumping their animals as he thinks they can no longer afford them.
DH made a bed for her in the garage and every evening at bedtime she'd go to her bed...a covered insulated box with a heating pad....this winter as of two days ago...finally my DH acquiesced and said my protesting about her having to be separated from us at night by having to go to the garage made me uncomfortable. DH has allowed her to spend all night in the house. DH said, with a grin on his face, "You thought you were being sly but I knew it would eventually come to this."
When we were married nearly 45 years ago, my mother told my DH..."You know she's crazy about animals and I have always said one day my little girl will grow up and live in house with a white picket fence and have a houseful of pets."
We agreed one dog, one cat....well over 45 years it's been mostly two dogs and one cat... not a houseful but a wonderful compromise.... she says, with a sly grin.... :0)
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