Bob has become a love bug!

[phesina]

My CH boy Bob, whom I got from his original people in Grand Rapids a couple of years ago, is about 10 years old now. He has always been much more wobbly than Elmer, my first CH kid.

Up until recently, he was always rather standoffish. At first he hissed at me and my other cats. Poor boy, he'd been through a lot, uprooted from the only home he'd known since kittenhood and then placed in the middle of all these strange critters. As time went on, he calmed down but has always kept to himself.

Well, just in the last three or four weeks or so, he has been stumbling over to me as I sit on the couch and read, and he leans against my legs if I don't notice him right away. He has me pick him up and put him on my lap, where he adjusts himself into the most comfortable position and settles down. One time he even reached up, hooked his claws into my jeans and hauled himself up.

And then he started coming up to me when I sit at this table working on the computer, for me to give him personal attention. Right now he is stretched across my lap, resting his head on my arms as I type. He doesn't purr audibly, but I can feel him rumbling. Even the purring is new behavior for me to pick up from him!

I don't know what made him finally decide I was safe and warm and someone he wanted to be with.. but I am so glad!

Happy New Year, Bobby, I love you so much!