Tugs' New Personality

 Since Slurpy died, her best friend and snuggle mate, Tugs, a very elderly torti, has been in personality transition.

First it was wandering the house calling pathetically for her friend.   But now, she's switched her need for snuggles to me.  I haven't been able to hold her in all her time here.  Tugs is somewhere around 18 years of age.  Sometimes mornings, she'll come on the bed, for petting but never onto my lap before.  

This morning, she marched into the exclusion room, door was open, and jumped on my lap, where she remained, off and on, for an hour.   

Tugs has always had a very direct no nonsense no drama personality.   She is not a bully, but does despise bully cats and whacks  them if they bother her.   She knows what she wants and tries to get it, without fanfare.  She loved Slurpy.  They slept together and ate together.   Now, she still has friends, plenty of cat friends, but she needs more so she just asks for it.   

Tugs, at 18 years of age, won't be around much longer either.

I thought I was going to get a bunch of Waterloo cats fixed Tuesday.  I have ten spots reserved at the private clinic.  I reserved the spots specifically for those cats, otherwise, like I said, on break so people need to do for themselves. Then that fell apart when some kids took off with the kittens.  Not a good thing, if you know the area.   So that's a no go now because those kittens were to be fixed and they also created such a ruckus they freaked out the adult cats I was to catch.   I didn't want to leave the clinic hanging though.

So I switched out offering spots to two Sweet HOme folks dealing with colonies.  I was going to try to catch more from the Berlin Road mess, but the latter's caretaker doesn't seem interested in the least in getting more done there.  Unless I do all the work.   So I'll probably instead have one of the Sweet Home lady bring some of the 9 kittens from that colony also.   At least she is engaged in the effort.

Half of the ten spots will be filled now by the tech from the clinic who is helping a Lebanon woman get cats fixed around her place.  HCC already paid for one pregnant female to be fixed from this place.  T  I'd rather help people willing to catch the cats themselves, than people who seem uninterested in getting cats they feed fixed.   Man I'm getting lazy.  Or, maybe realistic.

Cool cloudy day today.