"Get these mutts away from me!""

[lizblackdog]

Cat polishing: I made Cassie a Catster page.

Opened the bedroom door and the dogs and I trooped in. Spike was tight as a coiled spring, the tips of his ears vibrating with cat-love, and Squish kept wanting to yap in happy excitement, but they lay on the bed with me and behaved. Cassie hissed when we came in the room, and sat on the windowsill making her indescribable growly/grumbly/whiny/complaint noise at the dogs. I've never heard a noise remotely like that come out of any feline. I'll have to get her to do it near the computer for you before she gets too used to the dogs and gives it up.

We lay there for a while, the dogs being good, although Spike's bright-eyed fixed stare never left her, and I talked in random soothing sentences, making a point of using her name, stroked her, stroked the dogs and yawned a lot. Cassiopeia fell silent and I saw her silhouette behind the curtains relax and her ears come forward, though she showed no sign of leaving the windowsill.

Stayed like that for a while and then trooped out with the dogs. Will leave her in peace for the night.

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[beebarf.livejournal.com]

How's she doing now? I'm sure the hierarchy will soon sort itself out - Cassie will be happy as soon as she realises she's going to be top dog, as it were!

John would love to have a cat, but I'm not of the same mind :o)

[lizblackdog.livejournal.com]

She still makes a noise whenever she sees a dog, and she hisses if they get too close or make sudden moves. The dogs are ecstatic and fawning. They ask nothing more than to be her lifelong slaves, but she doesn't trust them yet.

Squish keeps singing to her. I just spent half an hour sitting with her in the bedroom, and she and Squish were both keeping up this constant chorus of growly moany whiny noise, it cracked me up!