Teleidoscope

Fri, May 18, 2007

Cats

Posted at 6:43 pm MDT to Miscellaneous

Dinah is currently yowling in full Siamese voice and trying to attack another cat through the sliding glass doors between my bedroom and the deck outside. The other cat, a beautiful golden-yellow longhair with very faint tabby markings that I haven't seen before, is laying casually on the deck and wondering what the fuss is about. I think it freaked Dinah out by coming up to the screen door and offering to sniff noses (the inner glass door is open about an inch).

I wonder what would happen if I opened the door and offered to let Dinah out on the deck. She might be taking advantage of the door to bluff.

She may be still upset and overreacting to the outdoor cat because I took her to the vet yesterday. I took her to a place where there were dogs and other cats! And the vet handled her and gave her shots! Obviously someone needs to pay...

It's really rather annoying that Dinah is so antisocial. I kind of miss having multiple cats. I had another cat, Little Kitty, when Dinah first arrived, who was a wonderfully friendly and sociable cat, and lonely after my older cats died of old age. (Or vanished, in the case of Slate, the sabretoothed kitty.) I had hoped that Dinah would be company for her, but Dinah hissed at Little Kitty and avoided her.

Dinah never actually attacked Little Kitty (or even tried to eat her food), even when Little Kitty was pretty thorooughly immoblized by age and arthritis. But Little Kitty had seniority in the territory, and Dinah got yelled at the first time she seemed likely to attack. If I brought another cat into the house, Dinah might very well attack it, since this has been her territory for several years now. She might kill a kitten.

And I certainly couldn't travel with two cats the way I can with just Dinah, especially if they didn't get along.

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