Sid-rep: Tues

[lizwilliams]

Sid has now been here for just over a week. He has started to explore, although Outside is still a bit big and he is wary of it. Yesterday, on my way to work, I said to T: 'He's on the stairs. I think he's about to go onto the bookcase - you know that pile of books that's standing on it? Well, if you hear a - ' CRASH! Indeed.

Last night we played 'bashing people' through the bannisters, that well-known form of feline amusement. When I'd had enough and was en route to bed, the Rottweiler took up position at the top of the stairs. I came out of the bathroom to find Sid pouncing on her feet. She has been desperate to play with him all week - she follows him about, meeping and wagging her stump of a tail. So last night was fun, according to her. Sid caught her with a claw and she barked, but she didn't snap and Sid stood his ground. He's a bold little cat.

Could have done without the overturned litter tray this morning, however. I think one of the dogs skidded into it. You haven't lived until you've had to pick kitty litter out of the top of a skirting board. It looked as though someone had thrown a grenade into it.

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

And put quite a lot of litter in said covered tray. Or else some cat will stand with its front paws on the entrance and turn the whole thing upside down (possibly on top of it.)

I speak from experience - and the cat who accomplished this weighs about four pounds...

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I think you're right. I'm going to sort something out today. The other tray is behind a locked door, so the dogs can't get at it, but this won't work for Sid for logistic reasons.

I remember coming into the living room of my parents' house one morning, to discover that the cat had not only shredded all the newspaper around his litter tray and piled it in, but had hauled all the cushions off the chairs and put them on top too (obviously he REALLY wanted to get rid of something), so that there was a huge mound in the middle of the floor. Bizarre.

Sid is now trying to prise open the dishwasher. Sigh.