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Monday Meowsie News

HIYA!!  SAVANNAH HERE!!!

My goodness…where to start? I know I have shared some photos of The Kid Sage and me in the living together, at the same time. Not close,but in the same room. And you have seen us on my king bed where I have my morning snuggles with Mom…I am allowing The Kid Sage to come up and after I give her a good hiss and grumble some…if she gets in her meatloaf position and stops staring at me, then I go back to my relaxing.

But some other changes have been happening over the last couple of weeks…changes in me. You have already seen Mom holding my hind paws, seen her rubbing my pink jelly bean toes and even rubbing my tummy a bit. That all means I am allowing Mom to get closer and closer to me…not just to pet my back or head…but to get close enough to touch me all over. So Mom has been learning some new things about my lovely furs and toesies…

So do you see what Mom has just discovered about the fur on my front paws?…do you see something unique?  Well Mom never got close enough to really examine my fur between my toes. She always assumed it was white between all my toes. She has been stealing my claws for over two years…you’d think she would have noticed…na’mean??  But then I have to admit, she has to mover very quickly when she does that as Dad is holding me and I make it clear I am upset….no, no..I never bite, or scratch…I just struggle.

Notice that I have GRAY fur between my outside toe on my left front paw and gray fur between my inside toes on my right front paw. Mom always thought I had white fur between all my toes on my front paws…heh…heh…fooled her, huh?

Next, she was up close and personal with me again…and check out what she discovered for the very first time on my right hind leg, down close to my paw…

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Do you see it? I have this sort of white path of fur that starts on my paw and goes about 3 inches up my leg…it looks like a lightning strike…pretty cool, huh?

So Mom is learning about me more and more and knowing how wonderful my furs are.  Now I have also  been getting more and  more brave, getting more confident. You see, I don’t even explore much, at least not while the humans are watching.  I guess I used to get in a lot of trouble or hit wherever I lived before going to the shelter.

I hardly ever get on the end tables, or dining table or counters.  I do sometimes get on a window sill…but not often nor frequently. I have now done several of these things within only the last 4 days!

First…a walk on a new window sill…had Mom beaming with smiles…I did it in our office!

The window was open, the soft semi-warm air was coming in…and I could not resist as I could hear birds.  Now I know I have a small screen bird TV to watch. We have lived here 18 months and I have never climbed up here to relax.

No photos, but I also did some exploring of both the night stands beside the king bed I share with Mom and Dad.  Mom always takes a glass of milk to bed with her and has it while she reads. She sits the empty, or sometimes partly unfinished, glass on the nightstand and turns out the light. I decided I needed to check out that glass three nights ago…there was some white stuff in there still…so I tromped right over Mom, woke her up, she turned on the light just as I was shoving my nose down into that glass to get a good whiff and maybe a bitty taste!  My gray hair floating in that unfinished milk the next morning told her this was NOT a dream! MOL!!

I do like to get into boxes…in…explore…and then out. But this week Mom turned my two boxes on their sides…and I discovered I could use them in a very special way…

Of course, this afternoon when I was having a nice nap in the larger box…The Kid Sage just had to do the copy cat thing and go climb into the smaller one…but she just pretended she was gonna nap…HAH!…caught ya Kid!  Staring!! Not polite!

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And finally, The Kid Sage and I spent some more time sharing the living room space last night.  I, on my couch, and she on small chair she likes lots…we were not close to each other….but close enough.

My recovery process seems to be almost accelerating with The Kid Sage sharing my home.  Do you think ‘she’ could have something to do with me getting more confident, exploring and allowing Mom to get closer and closer to me?…naw…couldn’t be her…nope, no way…sorry I even mentioned it…forget it…pretend I never said that…*pads off to find some kibble to nom*

Paw Pats, Savannah

peeEss Remember last week my humans had their 37th anniversary?  Check out the gorgeous Tulips dad sent Mom. He only learned two weeks ago that Tulips are her most fave flower because they are so happy looking and just shout SPRING wherever she sees them…Mom was thrilled then ran to the computer only to learn they are toxic to cats…so up they went onto her doll cabinet where neither of us can get to…Dad didn’t know and neither did Mom…so they will enjoy them in the house this ONE time

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Friday Frolics

HIYA!! SAVANNAH HERE!!!

Well it seems you all REALLY enjoyed getting to know The Kid Sage a bit better…so I am going to do a little bit of this post…then let her have another go at trying to write as well as I do…heh…heh…

I had some real work cut out for me this week.  You see my former veterinarian, Doc Josie…she has chickens…not just a couple…but like a bunch…maybe 10!!  All girls…so lots of eggs and the eggs come in many colors…and they are like way fresh.  In fact…they often arrive at our home decorated in whatever is lying around the chicken yard…na’ mean???  This time…one egg in particular was very suspect…

This egg is wearing a feather hat!

This egg is wearing a feather hat!

You can see why Mom let out a little giggle…then she brought that egg to me…knowing I would be able to determine its edibility…

First…the sniff test…

Yes...'that' is an egg from a chicken...it smells like a chicken yard

Yes…’that’ is an egg from a chicken…it smells like a chicken yard

Next…the taste test…

Just a little lick...make sure it is not a fake chicken

Just a little lick…make sure it is not a fake chicken

I gave my approval and Mom took it back to put it in her cold box.  What, or what would she do without me to do the sniffin’ and tastin’???

Ok Kid…you can take over from here…go…*gives The Kid Sage a hiss for encouragement*…get to writing.  Those words don’t come easy you know!

“But Your RH Savannah”…mews Sage…”What if they don’t wanna hear from me so soon?”

“Kids”…whispers Savannah…*pads away leaving The Kid Sage on her own with the keyboard and a blank page.

Sigh…ok…here goes.  Hey everyone, I’m back!  It’s me, The Kid Sage!  *wonder what ‘The Kid’ means????*  And I want to share one of my favorite games I created just to play with Dad.  We can only play it in my bedroom which he shares with me at night so I won’t be alone or scared. We play sometimes before getting in bed and I came up with this cool game!

Here…you can watch…I call it “Hide And Swat”…the first video is me giving a demo and the second one is my version of Round Two…*giggle*

And here is Round Two…this involves some aerobic efforts like running…

Isn’t that a ton of fun?? I just adore playing with Dad.

I also have this really cool photos to share with you…Mom took them of me while my Dad was holding me…I was pretty embarrassed…but he talked really soft and nice to keep me calm. (Savannah told me you can click a photo to bigify or if you want to see the whole caption and you can hover over a photo to see the caption)

*Sage looks over her shoulder–whispers to readers*…shhhhh…don’t let HRH Savannah know I showed these photos…she is always saying how scared she is of me; how she has to keep her eyes locked on me at all times to protect herself…check out our afternoon together in the living room with the big bird TV channel turned on…

Keeping an eye on me

Keeping an eye on me

And just see how much I terrify her…while I am still watching the bird TV channel…she is shivering with fear…HAH!! NOT!

Remember…shhhhh…I just know Savannah won’t be happy if she knows I blew her cover…

Thanks for visiting me, I had fun and hope you did too.  *meows over shoulder to HRH Savannah*…”you want me to turn the computer off now, I finished?”  “Sure Kid, turn it off. Better not be any typos in that post” grumbles Savannah going upstairs to bed.

Paw Pats, Savannah

Nose Bumps, The Kid Sage

Thursday Purrsday…A Short One

HIYA!!   SAVANNAH HERE!!!

So the humans are saying they are ‘bizzy, bizzy’…and only have time for a little news…

Really!!

Really!!

…and then I learned it was the Momster and Dadster’s 37th Anniversary!!!

 

APAWS!!!   APAWS!!!

 

I said “okey dokey…but I get about a kabillion hours later…right???”

And then the humans…well…they were quiet…and yeah…I mean ‘The Momster’  and ‘The Dadster’…and they agreed…. eventually I will have a VERY long post…subject to be determined…heh…heh…

The latest in my increasing ability to ‘OWN‘ my purrsonal space…

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Yep, that is The Kid Sage on my bed…I am glued next to Momster’s legs…and The Kid Sage was smart enough to even turn her back to prove she trusted me…so I only hissed…no growls…

For this gift to Mom Linda and Dad Peter…I owe all my purrs for thankfulness and so join Pepi Smart Dog’s Thankful Thursday Blog Hop…just click on the badge to be transported to other very Thankful blog posts.

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Paw Pats, Savannah

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