The crazy weather of late has really been freaking Ziggy out. This is not to mention how lonely she seems sometimes for a very friendly cat who likes to make friends with other cats when she is at the cattery and sometimes brings other cats round to our place.
A few people had suggested getting another cat to keep her company (and for double the awesome/cuteness factor) and on Saturday we finally decided it was time. We knew it would need to be a kitten so Ziggy would be more likely to accept her and we went up to the new Kingsland petshop which has just opened. They had two very cute little kittens who were bouncing all over the place but we weren’t entirely convinced.
We then went out to Animates in Henderson and it was love at first sight for me and a dark tortoiseshell kitten (Darren is not as soft as me, though when he held her the love came quickly afterwards). We decided to take her home right then and there, naming her Zoe to keep in line with the Z names we seem to have for our cats.
Zoe is 5 months old and a skinny but long wee thing - we think she has some Burmese in her makeup. Very quiet when we first got her home she now purrrrrs like a motorbike and is very insistent on being cuddled and rubbing up against us.
Ziggy hasn’t reacted too badly so far to another cat in the house. We have Zoe sequestered down in the study like Ziggy was when she first arrived. Ziggy knows that there is someone else down there (especially when Zoe is whining and wanting to come out into the house - and poking her paws underneath the door!) and is very watchful of the door. I think it’s going to be a few days yet until we try out a bit of a face to face meeting because when we’ve tried to mingle smells so far by patting Zoe and then patting Ziggy she hisses. We’ve been lavishing her with attention and encouraging her to sleep on our bed to make her feel better, and we’ll probably let her explore the study full of Zoe’s smell while we put Zoe in another room.
And yes…photos to come!
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