PsychoKitty

Dear Shell,

As you know, in February we lost Junior, our beloved companion. I still expect to see him just around the corner, or expect him to jump up and cuddle with me on the couch late at night while I write. I really miss my Junior.

Our other cat, PsychoKitty, misses him too. It took her awhile to realize that she could eat out of the food bowl without having to wait for him to finish first. She would sit at the bowl and just wait, occasionally looking around for him, before she would finally eat. Now, she's getting kind of pudgy as she's learning she can eat all she wants from the bowl.

Psycho has earned her name, many times over, through the years that I've owned her. Nine years ago, I rescued her from the animal shelter. She was six months old, beautiful long gray and white fur, pure white whiskers and golden eyes. When I first brought her home, she was scared of everything and anything. The slightest movement or noise and she would hide for the next two hours. In the past few years, she's become much more sociable and loving. Fast movements still startle her but she doesn't hide for hours now.

Since we lost Junior, Psycho has become clingy and very vocal. We use an Internet voice chat to talk with some of our friends who live in other states, and they can hear her in the background meowing. Our friend Rob says she sounds like she is trying to meow and purr at the same time. When we're on the phone, the person on the other end can hear her loud and clear. We can even hear her across the house! I think about the only time she is not meowing, is when she's sleeping. But she'll wake up out of a deep sleep meowing at times.

We've been letting her sleep in the bedroom at night with us so she wont be lonely and she's pretty good about just curling up at the foot of the bed, between J and I, and sleeping there all night. She has decided though that she is my alarm clock. When she decides it's time for me to wake up, she lets me know. It doesn't matter if i came to bed at 8am and it's now 9am, she gets in my face and starts her loud, loud meow. And she doesn't stop until I finally wake up and pet her. Which makes her meow louder for a minute or two before she calms down and curls up again.

She wants to be wherever we are at all times. If we're in the living room, she's trying to cuddle up on our lap or chest. Computer room? that's time to curl up on J's lap! Or she'll lay on top of our computer towers and just hang out. Sometimes she'll curl up on the extra computer chair and sleep. Bedroom? she's curled up in a ball on one side of the bed or the other, until both of us are in there, then she's at the foot of the bed again.

Speaking of the Psycho... she just realized I left her alone in the living room and has come running through the house meowing to find me. She is sitting next to me now, letting me know she needs more attention.


Shell