Alarm Cat update
I am going to sign off this week with an Alarm Cat update mainly because we haven’t heard from him for a while. Well, we have, at five in the morning, but other than that… Oh and again at half five and six too, and sometimes after six, and just before seven. We’ve heard from him after that as well as breakfast wasn’t waiting for him on his entry, and then we heard him some more again later when he wanted to go outside. It’s outside, when it is sunny, that he likes to get his finger exercises in and also catch a few rays. It’s the cat’s ‘catch and scratch’ time, you might say if you were to Think Jack.
The other week we bought him a scratching post from the pet shop. It’s gone ignored until today when I put it in the only place I could think of where he might be encouraged to actually use it: On the old outside bench. But, as you will see, it’s slightly redundant as he already uses the entire bench as a scratching post. We don’t mind. We cover the bench up in the summer to avoid splinters. It’s getting on a bit and comes with a story, though not much of one. We chipped in to buy it for some friends when they lived here; then later, when they moved off the island, we bought it back from them. Seems a bit odd, but that’s how things sometimes go around here. It now serves as a bench for the summer (though we may well buy a new one this year) and a scratching post for the AC. This also means that he is not tempted to take his claws to the furniture inside the house. I was hoping he would take to his run-over squirrel or whatever the thing is, but so far he’s only bashed it around for a bit before getting back to serious bench scratching.
After this task, his next is to find somewhere to do some sunbathing. His favourite place in the winter is on the lower roof and, if possible, right on the edge of the porch overhang. He can’t see anything going on from up there but it gets more sun. He’s also rather keen on the bathroom roof in the summer, and also the front balcony for when he wants to see what’s going on in the ‘hood. He can’t get out there at the moment as we are closed up against the cold weather, so the porch roof will do for now.
Meanwhile, we are planning a walk on Sunday which we are looking forward to; I’ll try and get a blog post of some sort done on Sunday morning ready for Monday. The last two Monday’s blog posts have attracted record numbers of viewers for some reason. Over 1,400 unique visitors each day, as opposed to the standard 700 to 900 per day. I checked back to see what the posts were about and they were nothing remarkable really. Perhaps more people than usual had arrived at the Monday morning office and Googled around for holiday destinations to dream about and found Symi. I hope so. Anyway, off now, have a good weekend and don’t forget to ‘Think Jack.’
