I Finally Have some Pictures of Her!!!

[AmberLee]

Crookshanks is lovely. No wonder you love her already. It does sound like you'll need to 'make haste slowly' re. introducing her to your home. Maybe some of the problems with Scooter are getting your husband down???? Or maybe other things are stressing him and overreacting about the cat was easier for him than dealing with it/them??? (I read a book about communications this last week -- I'll be obsessing about comm. challenges till I get caught up on cat mysteries again!!! )

[auggie]

Karen, did your husband actually see her pee on the doorstep? I'm sure there are other neighborhood cats coming around if you put food outside. You're doing a great job, because she doesn't look very thin anymore. She looks healthy and well fed.
C.C.'s mom, how funny, he made himself right at home.
I usually let my cats out in the backyard for a few hours, leaving the backdoor open for them. Imagine my surprise one morning seeing a strange cat in the kitchen eating my cats food. From that day on he came to eat every morning and evening. I called him gray boy. He would always announce his presence with his distinct Siamese meow. My cats never bothered him. They even let him spent one rainy day inside sleeping. When he suddenly showed up one day with a collar and rabies tag, I was so happy that he had a home. He finally stopped coming around all together, and I often wonder what happend to him.

[AvaJoy]

She seems to have a very determined look in her eyes . . . wanting to be on the other side of that door, no doubt!

I can understand your trepidation with letting her inside, which could compound the behavioral problems already present.

Probably the porch marking is simply Ms. Crookshanks way of broadcasting that this home is soon to be hers so back off, kitties

[zippy-kat]

*MY* Scooter has problems behaving himself? I don't believe it... LOL

[Edwina's Secretary]

Edwina is jealous of Crookshanks and all the attention Marius is giving her -- although she has to admit that tail thing IS an exceptional look! Sort of a "woman with a mysterious past" look juxapositioned with the innocence of that "milk mouth." Very clever in deed and surely effective!

[wolflady]

Logan, this is actually pretty strange for me too! LOL LOL All of the cats I have ever encountered in the past never had any problems. Scooter is the first "problem child" I have ever seen! LOL LOL Regardless of his 'cat-titude', the hubby just loves him to pieces. I do hate to think that it is actually our fault he developed the behavioral problem in the first place. Funny thing...all of my cats that have been 'rescued' have been the best cats. Scooter is the only one that actually came from a home...a situation that wasn't bad in other words...whereas all of the other cats I have taken in have been starving bags of bones from the street. Funny, how he's the only one that has a problem, huh?? LOL Mimi and Butter are both gorgeous...and I tell ya...the next house I live in is going to be all tile and hardwood floors!!!

Auggie, I don't think my hubby actually saw her pee on the door. I think he just assumed. I think that if it is her, then I can understand because she probably thinks of our home as her place, since we feed her...so she's marking her territory from the other cats that want to come and eat her food. She does look 100% better than she did when I first saw her that day I moved in! Poor thing was nothing but a bag of bones....and you could feel her spine like a string of pearls down her back! Yikes! I'm happy that she seems to be in good health The story about grey boy is priceless! Funny how some cats can just barge in when they feel like it! I sure hope he's in a loving home since he stopped coming around!

AvaJoy, I tell ya....she really does want in....literally!! She always runs up the front walk to the front door when I come home at night and looks up at me with those sappy eyes saying 'ya know ya want to let me in!!' I always hate going inside and closing the door on her I think I'll let my kitties get used to her presence through the screened door, and maybe start letting her in when I think everyone will be ok with each other....hehehehe

For Tonya....
Scooter misbehaving??!!! Never!! LOL LOL He just gets...uh...p*ssed off so to speak! LOL LOL

Auntie Tonya, I'm not gonna have a FEMALE cat move in!! No way, no how!! I don wanna sister! Yuk! Come git me!!'

[wolflady]

Originally posted by Edwina's Secretary
Edwina is jealous of Crookshanks and all the attention Marius is giving her -- although she has to admit that tail thing IS an exceptional look! Sort of a "woman with a mysterious past" look juxapositioned with the innocence of that "milk mouth." Very clever in deed and surely effective!

Hey all, Marius here!!! My sweet schnookums, dearest Edwina....my grey and white beauty with velvet feet...

She dances with mooncrickets
and plays with moonbeams
like a wondrous child....
Her whiskers, long and lustrous,
she preens like a lady
dressing her hair.
silver meddle earned for
impressive 'curling' techniques...
my pink nose pressed
'gainst the 'puter screen
(steam from my breath obscuring my view)
to get a glimpse....of my purrrrr-ti-ful Edwina!!!

nothing could compare to you, my little cat nip blossom=^..^=


Longing for you...
Marius

[lynnestankard]

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AvaJoy, I tell ya....she really does want in....literally!! She always runs up the front walk to the front door when I come home at night and looks up at me with those sappy eyes saying 'ya know ya want to let me in!!' I always hate going inside and closing the door on her I think I'll let my kitties get used to her presence through the screened door, and maybe start letting her in when I think everyone will be ok with each other....hehehehe
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THATS IT KAREN! Please just forget to close the door - Crookshanks will be in with you - you'll be soooo happy that hubby will be pleased HE thought of it!!!!!!
She's so beautiful and needs a home.
Lynne

[Edwina's Secretary]

Gosh Marius! A boy kitty who says such things to me!


You see, the only boys I have ever known are...well....canine -- like my cousins Gavin, KC, and Odin and they can be real...dogs.

My poppa is VERY protective of me. When I first came to live with him and my momma my belly was shaved and my poppa didn't want any boys to see me because well...personal stuff was showing So you see, I'm very innocent and naive about boys -- and the world (we don't discuss my previous life on the streets -- I am a cat after all and get to start over on new lives.)

So I am intrigued, enchanted, flattered and SCARED by your attentions! You are so pretty, white, fluffy, urbane and well...coastal. Me...I'm a simple midwestern girl -- with a thing for the Winter Olympics (my momma grew up with an Olympian classmate) and a passion for head gear.

So my little fluffcake, what can I offer a sophisticated dude cat like you? (And please my poppa mustn't find out I have written you!)

[lizbud]

Private message to Edwina,

Guard your heart sweet child; these bi-coastal
romances seldom work out. Alas...But on the other
hand Marius does write such sweet endearing
verse.(and he's sooooo cute)

[wolflady]

Dearest Edwina...my cat nip blossom, my little salmon butter biscuit....
The mere fact that you responded sets my motor runnin'. The moment I saw you with that silver meddle...I melted. However, it was the gold meddle of MY heart that you won that day....
I can't explain this feeling!! To be honest...I am a little startled by these feelings too...

A simple midwestern girl???...You under-rate yourself, my little liver morsel!! Purrrrrr....after all, I'm from Indiana...a mid-west boy myself! Although I had a rough life on the streets there...I have turned a new leaf in my lives and love livin' the calm housecat life. I feel I don't quite fit in out here in the "the valley" as they call it. My midwestern roots are just too strong, and there is a lot of 'materialistic and fast movin' kats' out here.

"Eres la niña que siempre busque
Es tu inocencia que quiero entender"

Until next time....my little cat nip blossom...I'll be purring for you....
=^..^=
Marius

[purrley]

Karen - I see a 3 indoor cats household in your future

[Pam]

Karen, Andy is very envious of Marius' way with words. He was wondering if he might just pass himself off as Marius and possibly win Edwina's affections but then decided it wouldn't work as he would need a love note writer. He'll just have to live vicariously through the two of them I guess! LOL!

P.S. The shot of Marius pining at the window is just a hoot!!!

[wolflady]

Originally posted by Pam
Karen, Andy is very envious of Marius' way with words. He was wondering if he might just pass himself off as Marius and possibly win Edwina's affections but then decided it wouldn't work as he would need a love note writer. He'll just have to live vicariously through the two of them I guess! LOL!

P.S. The shot of Marius pining at the window is just a hoot!!!

ROTFL!!!

[AmberLee]

Sound like a cat who needs Cyrano...