meeting curious

curious the cat... naturally curious is the cat's blog name, like happiness is the dog's blog name and jackson is the roommate's blog name and so on and so forth and scooby dooby doo, i mean, what with respect for privacy and all... so the past two days, beside fun with three and four year olds, included meeting curious... i was told that curious lived mostly in jackson's mom's room at their house because they have three dogs and two little children, none of whom were all that understanding of a cat's lifestyle... so curious kept out of the way a lot... and her first day here, i was told that curious hid under the recliner in the living room and she spent most of her second day under jackson's bed... a little concerning was whether curious was drinking anything because she did not eat anything and she did not use her litter box since she arrived friday afternoon... that would be thirty six hours as of tonight... but she did eat and drink a little tonight after i put food and water into small glass bowls and sat those bowls in a tray and jackson put the tray on her bed... so she is starting to relax a little...

last night, after i sat in the recliner and let my hand hang down limp at the side of the recliner, curious came out from behind the recliner and rubbed against my hand a few times... after a dozen or so times, i picked her up and sat her on my lap, rubbing her head and ears the same was she showed me she liked next to the recliner... she stood up as if to go, but sensing she was not being held, she laid down and sat on my lap for about fifteen minutes, teaching me how she liked her fact and jaw and head scratched... after we were all asleep, she went exploring and hopefully drank some water... tonight, after the kids were almost asleep, she came out and walked around a bit then climbed up on the couch and laid next to my thigh, instructing me to rub her head and ears and face and jaw with more detail than last night... like where to press harder, where to use my nails, the kind of things only cats know... it's a trust thing one just has to let the cat take the lead on or else even the best intentions will create discomfort or pain and the cat will not trust the hands that rub and scratch as much, even if they are the hands that feed them...

and after i opened the door to my bedroom, which is usually closed cuz while i love happiness, he sheds like crazy and most of my work pants and many of my play pants are black or dark colors and i don't want to work to get his light tan and grey hairs off my clothes, especially now that i have dress pants and suits and am the administrator at work... yes, i am lazy about such things... i don't iron either... i used to, as a teenager, but i am just not interested in investing time or energy into the details of clothing and dressing so i do my best to keep cleaning and ironing to a minimum... i spend more for no-iron wrinkle-free clothes and i keep my clothes and closet free of light animal hairs... curious seems to want to challenge me there...

actually, happiness comes into my bedroom freely when the door is open, i just usually keep it closed and i am not in there a lot... so anyway, after i opened the door to my bedroom, curious wandered in to explore... she seems to like my closet because after wandering in and out of it several times and spending some time in there, i closed the door and the next time she came in my room she was scratching at the closet door as if, well, she lived there... come on curious, what's in there anyway?... lots of clothes and shows and such... did i mention curious is a serious shedder with some thick light and dark fur too?...

so she's been all over everything in my room and she seems to like me... cats, like most animals but especially cats, tend to speak my language... or maybe i speak theirs... it's a non-verbal empathic kind of thing... she's nudged herself between me and the cell phone several times already... and this is the first time i am sitting at the computer and i kind of expect her to hop up and test the waters here, cuz cats want to see just how much they can get away with, kind of like three and four year olds... curious is 12 years old though, so she and i will gradually just set some boundaries and hopefully not stepping on the computer keyboard will be a boundary she learns to respect... she's a rather beautiful standard looking cat, with several colors in her fur... if i remember to, i will ask jackson what kind of cat she is tomorrow... anyway, we have a cat now... another mouth to feed... but another heart to love too, so it kinda sorta balances out in the end...

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