Rosie is doing fine. She still hides when I come in, but comes out when I sit there for a while. She is eating, drinking, and pooping, so the big stuff is ok, right now we are just figuring out consent issues. She is allowed to rub on me and loop in between my legs and be lovey all over me, but I get hissed at if I try to get handsy. Feels like I am back in High School, to be honest.
Also I slept for 16 hours and feel a ton better and do not have covid.
DebG
Beautiful girl. And it’s good for us to remember that no means no.
geg6
She’s adorable. ❤️ And glad it’s only a cold or something.
J.
UPDATED: Never mind. I found the post where John got Rosie and helped Devon’s friend. What a mensch!
Wait. When did you get another cat? (I clearly missed something, but it’s not under “Cat Blogging.”)
Barbara
@J.: Fostering for a friend of his sister Devon’s while the friend gets help for issues. You gotta keep up!
geg6
It’s a foster situation right now. The cat belongs to a friend of his sister Devin who is having mental health issues and is hospitalized.
J.
@Barbara: Thanks. I just found that post with the backstory. :-)
la caterina
Cole, she’s a calico! That can be quite diffident. She just doesn’t know yet that she loves you.
Raoul Paste
Very glad you don’t have Covid. And the pets are as well. I’m getting the booster Friday.
WaterGirl
Look at that face, and that attitude. She looks like a keeper to me!
JoyceH
That there is a torbie! AKA tortoiseshell tabby. I had a torbie years ago but poor little Sage was born with FIP and died young. I cried and cried.
RepubAnon
Try rubbing some catnip on your hands, and letting the cat claim the hands as the cat’s property. Worked with my quasi-feral feline overlord. I still can only pet the cat if I’m seated in the one cat-approved chair…
The other cats allow humans to touch them on occasion.
skerry
Reposting from below because I came in late to the conversation:
I’d like to raise awareness of a League of Women Voters website vote411.org
By entering your home address you can register to vote (probably not all states), verify registration, see what’s on your ballot, find your polling location and more.
ETA: It may not be fully populated at this time but will be prior to the election
Captain C
She’s adorable and eventually she will figure out that you give great scritches.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: I know, right?
zhena gogolia
@Captain C: Same as high school!
Captain C
@zhena gogolia: Pretty much :^)
A Man for All Seasonings (formerly Geeno)
You have to talk to her, John. I’ve never met a calico that didn’t like chatting with the humans. She’ll feel like her concerns are being heard.
la caterina
@A Man for All Seasonings (formerly Geeno): I agree! Calicos like to chat.
Danielx
Glad you don’t have Covid, which is having a resurgence in these parts. And Rosie will warm up…eventually.
I think I screwed up (not a surprise). I got the old Covid booster about a month ago. How long until I can get the new one?
Edit: they love to chat – a great deal to say on a wide variety of topics.
HumboldtBlue
Noodles (who now wakes me at 6 am every goddamned morning) says hi!
eclare
Sweet kitty…
Marleedog
@Danielx:
CDC guidance here says at least 8 weeks. I am in the same boat.
OId Man Shadow
Aww. I love the kitties put together at the end of the workday:
“We’re out of gray cat parts.”
“Just use the white and red ones to finish that one. We’ll resupply in the morning.”
CaseyL
Very happy to see Rosie settling in nicely, and also to hear you don’t have Covid.
Oscar, being a very old man at this point (16), will sometimes just start meowing … to himself, at the air, or maybe he thinks I’ve vanished and needs me to tell him I’m still around. Sometimes he adds a note of plaintive/panic that never fails to rocket me to wherever he is. I’ve read that cat cognitive decline is a thing, and meowing at nothing could be one of the signs.
He may also be going deaf – sometimes he doesn’t respond to me talking to him, or to other sounds (like me snapping my fingers near his ear).
The problem is that ignoring one’s human, and meowing at nothing, is also standard cat behavior.
In all other things, he’s fine. Well, other than the thyroid issue.
WaterGirl
@CaseyL: Yes, that sounds very similar to what my niece’s cat was doing when she was in cognitive decline. She was distressed but didn’t really know why.
I’m sorry, that’s hard.
satby
Ragweed pollen and dust and dander are off the charts around here; as a seasonal allergy person it may just have been that.
Also, her owner tried to care for her even though homeless, but the cage she kept the cat in was the cat’s safe space, so Rosie found herself a new one. Her owner might have been a bit erratic in behavior too (not in affection, but possibly in consistent care), adding to Rosie’s uncertainty now. Giving her the lead in coming to you and letting her set the pace is the right way to handle it.
Expect a vet visit to set that back a bit too. I hope she tests ok on the big stuff.
catclub
@OId Man Shadow: wait a minute. All cats are grey in the dark.
catclub
@CaseyL: I think ours is there like yours. 17 years old.
Can we adjust it to not do that at night? Asking for someone who prefers to sleep then.
TBone
Have you tried rubbing catnip on your hands?
TBone
@HumboldtBlue:
HI NOODLES! 👋
rikyrah
You are good people, Cole 🥹🥹
TaMara
@la caterina:
@A Man for All Seasonings (formerly Geeno):
Agreed, they love to be the center of any conversation.
As John hasn’t had a Calico before, he’s in for some treats. When she’s ready, she’ll take over the house, the boys will bow down to her and once she claims you, you are claimed.
Since she had a prior owner, it might take her a while to do the claiming, but it will happen.
Glad it’s not Covid and you’re feeling better.
Steve LaBonne
Deleted, wrong thread.
Maxim
Yay Rosie! I’m glad she’s settling in.
Friendly reminder (per one of the recent Covid update threads here) that at-home Covid tests have a false negative rate as high as 92%. So a negative result on a test does not necessarily mean you (general you) don’t have Covid. False negatives are especially common when we test as soon as symptoms start; it’s better to wait a day or two and test then.
Kristine
@CaseyL: A friend went through that with an aging cat—it intensified to loud meowing/crying in the middle of the night that would awaken her and her husband. Medication (for the cat) helped—she lived several more years.
Kristine
@catclub: See your vet. Medication can help.
owlbrick
John- it’s worth retesting again in a day or two… the current variant doesn’t seem to show up on the rapid tests until a couple days have passed. I have also read that if you swab the back of your throat before swabbing your nostrils, it can pick up traces that might be missed otherwise and help prevent a false negative. Either way, hope you feel better soon!
Chat Noir
Rosie is a total dolly! I bet once she’s acclimated to you, she’ll be a total love bug.
@CaseyL: Sounds like we have the same cat! Hobbes is also 16 and is quite loud when he is vocal. He also has had thyroid issues but we’ve been able to treat it with a diet adjustment (Hill’s Prescription Y/D dry).
Gemina13
So glad you don’t have Covid!
Rosie has such a sweet little face, but I’ve never seen a calico that couldn’t beat a Gibson Girl for winsome beauty. And as she’s a calico . . . whatever she wants, she’ll get. So, to quote “Damn Yankees,” recline yourself, resign yourself, you’re through.
Tenar Arha
@owlbrick:
I do this. You want to make sure you’ve waited (I usually just do 30 minutes) after eating or drinking, anything other than water, before swabbing your throat. Here’s a relatively recent article that explains more.
ETA format typo
KrackenJack
@Maxim:
They say the new ones (Available for free again next month under Bidencare) are better at detecting the current variants.