Chloe is the only cat that faces Smokey down when he tries to bully her. Here she is on the deck. We had just let her out and Smokey was acting all innocent. Chloe knew better.
I wish I had picture of her standing him down. It’s really good.
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Hanging on
The persimmon tree has lost all its leaves, and the hickories have lost most of theirs. However, they are still hanging on to some of this fall’s fruit.
The possums have been working on the persimmons, but the last ones are just too high in the tree to reach, and the limbs are apparently too thick to easily chew through. These persimmons will almost certainly last into next year.
Studied indifference
Back before my mother died, her little dog Lucy almost always found a place on Mother’s furniture if not on her lap. Since we inherited Lucy we haven’t let her on our sofa much, but occasionally Leah lets her up. She likes to bury her head under a pillow like this:
Smokey the cat also likes to jump up on the sofa between Leah and me. He does a little nesting, usually testing how soft my leg is, and then settles in lying as close as he can to me. Odd, since Leah is the cat person and I’m the dog person. I do usually give him an ear massage, and he turns his purr machine up to 11.
Smokey and the rest of our cats get along reasonably well with the dogs if their paths happen to cross, but they usually retreat pretty quickly when the dogs get too nosy. The other night Smokey and Lucy found a way for both of them to get their full sofa time.
They ignored each other.