My Diary of a Cat Owner: June 2016 Fur Friends

This month I thought it would be fun for our Blog to focus on some of Bubbles' fur friends - AKA some of our reader's fur babies.

As you can see from the collage above - they all seem to be in a state of deep relaxation or professional picture posing!

Bubbles has recently been snapped sitting neatly in her "day bed" in a state of - what looks like - deep meditation. Actually, I think she is just about to doze off for a cat nap in her comfy fleece bed. She has the choice of two beds to luxuriate in.... Her day bed - featured below - as well as a snuggly night time fleece basket for her to sleep in upstairs at night. Sometimes, if she fancies it, she sleeps on the dressing table stool; where she is often caught admiring herself in the mirror!

Bubbles dozing in her day bed....

Bubbles relaxing in her night bed....

This is Mr Miyagi - belonging to Helen, Ian, Hannah & Sian. He came to them as a TINY kitten - all fluffy trousers, long fur & tiny toes....

Now just look at this handsome boy - all grown up - with his big Basil Brush tail....

Mr Miyagi likes to be wherever his humans are. The bathroom is no place for privacy as Miyagi likes to be with his humans - EVERYWHERE! He is also partial to a comfy pillow & many a night his human Mum awakes to find a furry friend curled comfortingly around her head.

This gorgeous Tiger striped tail girl - Amber - looks as though butter wouldn't melt....

But her owner Veronica informs me that she too, is unable to visit the bathroom in private without a CATastrophe striking! Once, Amber was so put out she was not allowed in, she scrabbled furiously at the carpet outside the door - ripping it up & creating a blockade - so poor Veronica was stuck inside!

I'm not sure how your boss would take the news "Sorry I'm late - my cat locked me in the bathroom!" It is possibly on a par with "My dog ate my homework" but in this case is very true.

Now this long haired lovely - Boots - has a definite look of cheekiness about her!

Her current mission in life is trying to eat as many mobile phone chargers as possible.... Then look completely innocent about it! "Who? Meeeeee? Miaow!"

Her humans - Cassie & L.B. - have had to resort to building reinforced lego charging stations to thwart Boots' devilish ways. But who could resist that furry face?

As well as practicing her best alien impressions....

Boots is often found impersonating a human baby....

At home, we made the recent discovery of a little brown field mouse - chomping cheekily on cat grass seeds under a bell cloche in our zip up plant grow house. It was dark at the time - so I feel I can be forgiven for my initial panic that it might be a bat or a rat.... I.E. hopping from one foot to the other while making squeaky noises while my husband quickly fetched a torch. Well it WAS dark at the time so it could have been anything! But sure enough, the torchlight lit up a beautiful brown furry creature with little pink almost translucent ears and a very worried little face.

We think the mouse is a pretty permanent resident in the garden as we see it scurrying to & fro in the late evening, however, Bubbles has yet to meet this real life rodent. I am sure she would be delighted to have the opportunity to play chase - but I think the mouse may disagree.

Needless to say - Bubbles was most put out not to be receiving her cat grass & the cheeky mouse did very well out of the deal. He even received a nice chunk of cheese as a welcome present.