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| When you're six months old, everything's an adventure... |
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| ...and nap times come frequently... |
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| ...and you discover laptops are warm! |
Two weeks after
Bagheera passed away on July 29, 2014, we found the house too quiet and too empty. Couldn't stand it any longer, so we went back to the RSPCA shelter at Lonsdale, where we met Bagheera in 2000, and we met "Zoltar, Empress of the Galaxy." Zolie for short.
Just a few months after Zolie came to her "forever home" it was time to time to get the Christmas tree boxes down out of the loft. Oh ... boy. Kittens do love a Christmas tree, and at nine months old by now she was big and heavy enough to wreak havoc. "Ooooh, look, shiny, dangly things!" Or, "Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, your ornaments are history." Or to put it another way, "Timberrrrrr!" We were too busy laughing to be cross.
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| Come out and play -- |
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| There's honey eaters to stalk out here! |
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| And fences to climb -- |
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| -- and you can see the whole world from up here! Wowzer! |
Some places in the house are designated no-go-zones for puddytats. I wonder why?! Doesn't stop a kitten trying, and you'd be amazed what you can do, when you try. Above: Zolie discovers the box room and climbs right to the ceiling ... helps Dave put away the Christmas tree ... and investigates the camera. At the time, the top of the stepladder looked such a great place to be.
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| All cats love to help with the dusting. Crash!!! |
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Didn't want to roost on the cat tree while she was small enough to fit.
Now she's two sizes too big, it's purrrfect. |
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| Being Scottish by adoption, she looks great in tartan. |
With everything to explore, it didn't take her long to call this domain her own and put her stamp on it, in the form of demolished Christmas trees, "twanged" insect screens and "pulls" in various rugs. Ah, it's a cat's life. Two years on -- August 12, 2016 -- shes grown up and mellowed out at least a little. We have high hopes she'll decide the Christmas tree is borrrrring this year ... better things to do.
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| Can't see me behind these flowers. I'm totally hidden. |
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| Look -- somebody put a bench in the jungle for me, how thoughtful. |
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| My, what amazing white whiskers. |
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| That's more than enough photos. I'm outta here. |
Happy "welcome home Zolie" day, 2016!
Has it been two years? Time flies!
ReplyDeleteYep, two years. And the thing that worries me is, the next two will go by just as speedily. There's this bee in my ear buzzing, "Must go faster, gotta go faster..." LOL -- or perhaps not, come to think of it!
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