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01 Apr 2015

Ladycat Looking Her Best

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

I asked Mom L to help me pick out some of her recent photos of me that we both think shows off my REAL SELF! Hope you enjoy them.

Focus

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Contemplation

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Clarity

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Curiosity

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My Real Self…confident

PAW PATS, SAVANNAH

06 Mar 2015

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Learning How To Play Together: Part One

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

Those of you who have been with me from the beginning of my blog know that I suffer from being an ‘Adult Cat Survivor of Kittenhood Trauma’. I am not attempting to make fun of the humans who are struggling with this challenge. But I have always, with my blog, tried to bring to the attention of humans that many adult cats and dogs also must find ways to move through recovering from abuse which might easily have occurred when we were very young.

Lucky for me, I have a forever home which gives me all of my basic needs and lots more. About fifteen months ago Mom and Dad introduced me to a new feline family member. Her name is Sage. I have been struggling ever since to learn what the heck I am supposed to do with HER??!!

The Kid Sage

The Kid Sage learned very early in her life to play with other cats. She had a sister, Rosemary, and they played, laughed and loved their humans. So Sage knows about ‘playing nice with others’…sadly…I do not.

I have decided to share with my followers the attempts I have been making over the last month to learn how to play with The Kid Sage…who would play with ANYONE if she had the chance….sigh…

Seriously? You want to ‘surprise’ me?!!

She seems to believe that I, another cat, cannot ‘smell’ her when she gets close.

ummm….ya know I ‘know’ you are in there…right???!!

But she is so eager to play with me…she just keeps on coming…

Sheeesh! As though I don’t know she is right there

Sage seems to realize when she has overstepped her ‘boundaries’ with me…and she desperately searches for a way to disengage. At this point it is all I can do to not chuckle over her own self devised predicament.

Does Nana see me?

Is Nana still there?

Am I safe at last???

I do try to respond; but most often it is with…sadly…a hiss…as I do not know what else to do. But…I snarl less and I try to find ways to disengage that will not cause either of us to ‘lose face’ so to speak.

I am leaving TKS. Another time perhaps

Be sure to visit again on Monday as I share another even more recent chapter in my diary as I learn to actually ‘be’ a cat.

Paw Pats, Savannah

Posted in Savannah's Life Experiences and tagged CAT GAME, cat recovery, Savannahs progress

04 Mar 2015

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What I Learned from The Kid Sage

slams door %^#@$…puff, puff…screeeeeeeeches to halt at computer…mutters to self “can’t believe I am late, late, late again!“…

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE (finally!) !!!

I promised you a look at what I learned from watching The Kid Sage and her technique for using our medium size tower. As you know from Monday’s post , TKS has no problem getting on the top level and chill’axin.

That looked kind of interesting to me, but I am never comfortable with heights…until I watched her. I caught Mom L’s attention, and she grabbed her camera, when I hopped onto the White Tower.

Nice view from here

Then I decided to saunter across the window sill over to the other tower…the one with the tube I love to hang out in. I shocked Mom L again when I gave the top shelf a good sniff and then settled myself right into it.

This fits me nicely

Mom L grabbed my peacock feather and hoped against hope that I would be enticed to relax even more and play. She was well rewarded, don’t you think? (hover over the photos or click to bigify and view the complete captions)