Welcome to the family Sadie Lady

It is wonderful, it is marvelous, it is fabulous!  I have no idea what we did, but I’m glad we did it! 

In the previous posts it was noted that Sadie was making progress to adapting to her “forever home”. She would make progress. Last weekend her progress grew by leaps and bounds. Don’t get me wrong,  I am not complaining.  I’m doing the happy dance, irritating my co-workers, dancing on the ‘moon’, you get the point.

Friday night I woke up half way to a kitten sitting on my chest. Sadie had never taken the initiative to come to me at night. It was always me waking up, petting her and her walking up to me when I laid back down. It’s the middle of the night and I’m half awake, so I said “Oh! There is my little love bug Olie!”. As if on que, Sadie stands up and looks at me. OMG, its Sadie! She came to me! That woke me up.

What was funny, thinking it was Olie, I was more ‘rough’ in my petting, and I never used nails with Sadie. Only my fingertips. I even patted her on her backside and she didn’t run away. Epiphany, we had been treating Sadie differently because she is different, but maybe that was affecting the family.

She stayed on my chest all night, I didn’t mind not getting a lot of sleep, her purring was comforting. In the morning she was a different cat. She didn’t scurry under the bed. She acted like she owned the house. If she didn’t want you to pet her, she just moved a little faster than your hand.

That morning we had family play time for half an hour, maybe Sadie didn’t see us a fun before? We always had playtime but she would run away if something got to close to her when thrown toward her.

But now, this was not the case. She will jump and she will attack with greater power. She was so different. I was concerned that maybe this was a one day thing. But Saturday night she again climbed up on my chest and slept. This really seems to annoy Oliver. He never slept with us. Now he will try to sleep with her or bite my finger to get my attention. By Sunday night I was the new Kitty Bed, Oliver on my leg and Sadie on my chest.

Depending on the night, even the time of the night the cats are everywhere, Oliver on my arm, Sadie on my shoulder.   It is Wednesday at the writing of this blog post and I’m tired! These kids wake up so often. Tuesday I started trying to train Sadie to sleep on the bed beside me. Well actually Monday night it started. I was in satin PJ’s and she rolled over and slid right off onto the bed between my husband and myself. Last night she got it. She curled up in the crook of my arm. She really likes to be tightly held when she sleeps. It’s an amazing feeling to get her to sleep and know she’s sleeping and she feels safe. Not as amazing as doing that for a human child, but we don’t have any of those around, so I feel great to do that with Sadie.

Oliver is changing also. He was a little love bug when we got him, now all he wants to do is play. Except at night he does want to sleep with Sadie and the family, he is just too cute!

We are just so in love with our new family. Sadie has her personality and Oliver has his and they love each other. I am so happy we bought a new camera and have taken all kinds of pictures, they are growing so fast. Last month they added one pound to their weight and inches to length and height.

We are noticing the ‘typical’ pixie bob behavior. They rarely ‘meow’. Sadie will when she wants me to come and get her.  Yes she has trained me. She will be upstairs in the master bedroom and she will ‘yell’ so I go up and talk with her she then follows me downstairs. She will even follow me downstairs in the middle of the night when I leave the bed for water. Other than that, the only noises they make are ‘grunts’ and ‘cherps’. Also, most sites have said the Pixie Bobs want to be with the family and that is true. One day, after getting home from work, my husband went to get the mail. Oliver saw him going downstairs and heard the door open. He went running down the stairs meowing. It startled me, so I followed. Oliver had gone tearing down the stairs and running to the window and jump up into the window sill. That behavior was so dog like. The other dog like behavior, Oliver fetches. We didn’t teach him that. That is just him.

The one thing not so typical I guess, Oliver will wear his harness. Just don’t take him outside. The weather in Seattle has been great and we want to train Oliver to the harness (Sadie, maybe later). I had put the harness on him and he walked around the house just fine. I put the leash on and carried him to the back deck. He didn’t like the idea. He grunted when I walked outside. I put him on the stoop; he was having none of this. He looked around and then looked at me and his little back legs were shaking. Poor little guy, we went inside immediately. Interestingly enough, it was Sadie that was more interested in the outside when the patio door was open. Just not sure how to get a harness on her and having her reverting back to the old Sadie. She is ok getting picked up but it is still not her favorite thing. But each night I pick her up and cuttle with her just like to do with Oliver. He will purr she puts up with it.

The harness will take a little more thought, no one can go out on the patio without a harness and leash.  The looking forward to walks!

Welcome to the family Sadie!