Lori Week - Some Other First Day Pics

TBT:   More first day pics - 

Oh, and by the way, Peace On Earth...

Flashback Friday

Today we go back to this week in 2010, Ayla was enjoying the cave under the old cat tree.

In spite of Iza demanding it for her own...

It was a good safe spot.

And later, she practiced her climbing skills.  Up to the top of the bifold closet doors.

And sitting there looking down "just to see what she could see" from there.

Thankful Thursday

MARLEY:  I am thankful for my REAL cave.  It is part of the cat tree TBT built before my time (and before he bought real cat trees), and I do love the platforms.  I spend every early morning there.  Iza and Ayla are welcome there, but it is pretty much all mine.  And ya see all that ripped up rope?  That's MY werk...


But the cave is the best part...

Hurray for close snuggly places!

Almost Werdless Wensday

In the dark, across the room...

Mancat Monday

MARLEY:  I have been loving the little cave lately. 

It was originally a stand-up thing when Skeeter was a kitten, but The Big Thing took out the insides and made it a cave.  And it fits right between posts of that real old thing he built.  

I resisted letting him take a picture of me in there.  Well, mostly because when he gets up in the morning, it means "Breakfast" and I run out.  But also because it means he knows where I is and we all like to be a bit secret about our "places"...

But I was really chillaxed, so...

Womancat Monday

AYLA:  Dad put a top on the chair I've been liking lately.  I'm not sure why, but I like it a lot.  Cave-ish...

And with a bloo towel...  WOW!

Mancat Monday

MARLEY:   Oh, Hi...  I'm just gettin up.  I like ta sleep in my cave most nights.  But I'm so happy ta see TBT get up that I hop right out.

In fact, I get up so fast he cant hardly get a picture of me IN my cave.  This about the fastest his camera will react, MOL!

My Gotcha Day

MARLEY:  Today is my 8th Gotcha Day.  Wow, it doesnt seem that long!  Here is me arriving my first day here...

HaHa - "gotcha" that was Skeeter.  My first picture here was really this one ...

I was pretty unsure what was going on.  I mean, I dont really remember Mom, I ended up in a shelter with lots of other unhappy kitties and cats, some people took me away from there, but that was ta give me to a Nice Lady for Chrissymouse.

It was a very nice place and she was very kind, but she turned out ta be allergic ta kitties, so she advertised about finding me a better place.  And she found a family that wanted me, but then TBT learned about me from a blog-friend.  And he said he wanted me more than the family and had a better place and I was EXACTLY the cat he needed.

And she eventually agreed.  So he brought me to my Forever Place.  I sure went through a few places before I got here...  I stayed in a room here a few days wondering if that was all the Home I was going to get.  The new Being came in and sat with me many times during the first couple days.  I knew there were other cats in the larger space and worried about that.

But Hugo The Travelling Hippo was there to keep me company too, so that was good.

I got let out in short times the next couple of days when the Other Cats were outside.  Meanwhile, the Being sat with me after stroking the other 2 cats in the house so I could get used to their smells (2 girlcats, I could tell).  Then he carried me around the house so I could see the Other Cats (but safely in his arms).  Finally, I was allowed out of my temporary room while the Being watched us all carefully.

I got hissed at a couple times, but eventually I got sniffed and accepted.  I had a knack even then of getting along (ya learn stuff at a shelter sometimes)...

I learned from them that the Bein was called "The Big Thing".  The smaller but older one was called 'Ayla' and the larger but younger one was 'Iza', and TBT told me I was keeping my previous Lady's name 'Marley' (because it was "just right").  I learned later that iffen TBT hadnt liked the name the Nice Lady gave me, I would have been named 'Jondalar', some Bein where Ayla and Iza got THEIR names.  I like 'Marley' better.  Shorter...

TBT showed me where the food bowls were, where the litterboxes were, and he held me up so I could see outside (and that I would be able ta go "out" when the weather was warm.  That seemed odd, I had never been "out" before (it turned out ta be a great thing, later).

Ayla was real nice to me.  Iza was a bit unhappy, but I purred a lot and she got used ta me.  TBT explained ta me that I was here ta share the space in love and companionship and I dint have a "job", but I had some "responsibilities" like keep Ayla and Iza peaceable, catch any mousies that got in the house, make sure I used the litterboxes, and not claw up the furniture.

That sounded pretty good.  I was already REALLY happy ta be here,  I'm really peaceable, and clean, and there were great places ta scratch on designed for kitties.

And annyway, TBT has magic fingers...

Best thing what ever happened ta me, getting brought here!  So this day allus means a lot.

Here is a another picture of me in the original small room.  I still like that cave, but I fill it up lots more these days, MOL!

I still like it there, too.

Here I am getting up in the morning when Im sure TBT is really UP for the day...

Life is WUNNERFUL!

Furniture Examination

IZA:  TBT was moving some furniture, and I learned that some of these things are just little caves!  I mean, Ive slept in the drawers that open up, but I never realized they came all the way out...

So I hopped right up ta take a look-see.

Hmmm, this has possibilities!

A few folded towels, mebbe even a half a curtain, a couple toys stashed inna corner...  And there is  even a little cave fer each one of us!

I wonder iffen I can get TBT ta leave the drawers out and fix it up a bit?

Mancat Monday

MARLEY:  I've really been enjoying my little cave lately.  I had been sleeping at night on the platform above, but this little cave has become a good comfy place.

TBT Here:  Marley's little "cave" used to be a standup cylinder with 2 levels.  But when I realized none of the Mews used it that way, I pounded the middle shelf out. pulled out every staple, re-upholstered the inside, and laid it on its side between 2 posts of an old 3-platform tree I made myself.   Marley loves it.

And that is one of the best places to find whiskers.  The fancier cat trees in the living room are 2nd, the bed blankets are 3rd, and the mat where the food bowls are is 4th.

Mancat Monday

MARLEY:   We have all been bored with napping spots lately [TBT:  Only about 50 spots each, what a tragedy]  HEY!  TBT, this is MY post...

Annyway, before I was so rudely innerupted, we are allus on the lockout fer new spots or old spots we have forgotten.  I found a spot I had forgotten.  TBT says it is one of the original spots for Skeeter and LC.  It was originally a stand-up column with a middle with kittens ta climb around.  And when Skeeter and LC got too big for it, he beat the middle part out, removed all the sharp fasteners and made it a cave.  

Then he built Skeeter&LC's 1st cat tree around it.  Just 3 platforms up like stairs, but they loved it, and I do too.  In fact, I'm the only one who uses it.  But I had been forgetting the cave at the bottom...

I remember napping in it years ago as a kitten.  And the other day, just before I hopped up the 3 platforms to sleep on the top, I looked in the old cave for a bit and decided it looked pretty comfy.  

 

A convenient ramp/scratcher right at the front too!  I think I like this spot.  And that it was Skeeter's favrite spot makes it nice, too!