Walsall Wonderland

As I’ve mentioned before, I have two cats. A girl-cat who is eight and a half years old, and a boy-cat who is about four years old.

In recent months, I have noticed that the boy cat has been getting much, much heavier. There has always been this funny disparity between them were the girl cat is much smaller, but must have been more dense, because even though the boy cat was noticeably larger, he was only a little heavier. That, however, has changed. The boy cat has gotten much wider in the mid-section, and much, much heavier. He now weighs about 7 kilograms.

The funny thing is, I haven’t noticed him eating any more, I haven’t been going through more catfood, but the girl cat does seem a little thinner than she used to be. She goes through stages of being kind of fat, and then other stages of being quite sleek, but I much prefer when she is fatter. Picking her up and holding her is so much easier than with the boy cat, because he has gotten to a point where if you pick him up and sit with him for a while, he begins to weigh on your arms much, much quicker, and you have to rest them on something – like the arm of the couch – or pop him back on the ground.

I really love having cats, and my fiancé and I both adore the two we currently have. The girl cat is quite a baby in a way, she loves to be held. No, she demands to be held. If I am working too long at my computer desk, she will get up on the desk and stand on my keyboard in an effort to get me to pick her up, and sometimes when she is meowing to be picked up – something she does a lot! – when I bend down to pick her up, she shoots her arms – or front legs if that’s the way you see things – up at you so it is easier to get under her armpits to pick her up… just like a child. She’s very sweet, and she loves to rub on my fiancé’s legs when he’s just gotten out of the shower. The boy cat is also very affectionate, he loves to rub on your legs and on your face. He will sit with you, so very happy, to the point where he dribbles from his nose because he breathes too fast. There’s nothing wrong with him, because he doesn’t do this when he’s asleep, but when he’s awake, he breaths really quickly so his purr is kind of like a prfft, prfft, prfft and sure enough, he’ll dribble from his nose. He also has underdeveloped vocal chords, so his meow is more like a high pitched muiii, it is so cute!

Today I have to include a cat-oriented knitting pattern, so how about this groovy toy from Knitty?