Wednesday, February 25, 2015

I woke up during the night and unfortunately Tommy thought that this was her cue to get her day started.  After a couple hours of frequent reminders, I finally got up at 6:30 and fed her. She had eaten earlier in the day yesterday, so I was sure that she was hungry.

I went back to bed, but at 7:00 when the heat came on, Tommy came in and jumped up on the bed to let me know that I needed to get up.  After some petting and assurance, she left me alone for almost another hour, only stopping in once during that time to check up on me by jumping on the bed near my head and “announcing” that she was waiting.

Once I got up and completed my morning chores, Tommy seemed to settle down. Although we still hadn’t had our morning play session, I’m sure that she was at least glad to see me moving. We had a short play session before settling down on our respective morning spots, her on the perch of her scratching post and me on the sofa.

After Tommy went for a nap on the bed, I went and completed some of my transcribing before getting ready for lunch with friends.  Tommy had moved to the sofa as I got ready. I put out her hairball treat(ment). As I left she was curled up on the sofa ready to begin her late morning to early afternoon nap.

When I returned, she was curled up on the sofa, but came over to greet me.  I had received a package, so she explored not on y the contents but also the packing materials and the box. She was very curious about the Talking Stefon, especially when he talked to her. I decided to leave him out and see what she would do. After the initial novelty wore off, she left Stefon sitting alone on the chair.

I put out her grass so she could have a snack. We then spent a quiet afternoon first playing and then just lying on a sunny portion of the floor.  I was even able to take a nap in that spot.  The sun felt so good; I understand why Tommy likes to find a sunny spot in the condo to relax.

When it was time for dinner we both had our dinner and then settled on the sofa for the night.  About an hour after Tommy’s first serving she had her second serving of dinner and ate quite a bit of it. Putting it out in smaller portions has considerably reduced the amount of waste from the food being left out and unrefrigerated.  I’m very careful about not leaving her dinner out too long although I had to just leave it when I was gone to Chicago for several hours and either she finished it while it was still “safe” or when it was beyond the “safe” time and it didn’t affect her.

I tried to get in one last play session before bed, but Tommy didn’t seem to want to play. Once we went into the bedroom, she did let me hug her before putting her on the bed for her snack which she quickly ate. Once I got into bed, Tommy jumped down and began some late night exercising. 

She jumped up and climbed on the bungalow before jumping back down and tearing around the bed. This was repeated several time with her also spending time on the top of the bungalow swatting at a hanging ball that she’d been ignoring lately.  If I didn’t know her better I would have thought that she was a crazed cat.

While she was running around I decided to read since I knew that sleep wouldn’t happen for either of us while she was running around.  Once she finally settled down and curled up on the top of the bungalow, I said good night and turned off the lights. I now that before morning, she will be curled up at my feet sound asleep.