Cats, continued

[bunn]

 This morning, I was drinking coffee quietly when Fankil sprang upon me and bit and scratched my arm quite hard. He broke the skin, though I was wearing a thick fleece-lined hoodie that covered my arms. A few days ago, he got out of the upstairs room and when Pp caught him, he gave him a long deep scratch that needed bandaging. I don't quite know what we are going to do with him. I'm still hoping that his behaviour will improve and he can be re-integrated with the other cats. He is a lot more confident now, and very playful, but also WAY too fierce. He is a small cat, but even a small cat can hurt!

Fortunately, he seems to have the sense not to really tackle the dogs, who could certainly eat him if it occurred to them to do so. And that suggests that he can control himself, if he wants to.

We have been letting him wander over the new roof outside the living room, and when he was doing that he was a lot calmer, but now he has discovered that he can get down via the scaffolding into the garden. When he discovered this, we had a panicked half hour when we thought that he was gone for good, but thankfully he then came back on his own (and assaulted Nenya, or possibly, she assaulted him).

These cats are definitely the most spicy cats we have ever owned. Well, apart from Gothmog, who is a little round sweetheart and deserves to be protected.

In other news, the blown-off roof is now well and truly replaced, the floor (complete with new joists because the previous owner had skimped on joists) is in, and the builders are now working on the rooms underneath that had got all wet. Not sure if they will need to replace the floor. So far they have pulled all the insulation out of the walls, removed the lights, and taken off the plasterboard ready to replace it.

 

Comments

[narya_flame]

I am very glad the roof is replaced!

Fankil sounds like a little horror, but the kind of little horror that I would absolutely adore. Our boy Kaspar is just a cuddly lump these days - which works very well as a foil to the loopy puppy dynamic.

Best of luck with the remaining building work!

[bunn]

Fankil is an adorable little horror, very cuddly in a slightly perilous manner. He loves attention, so I am hoping we can get him past the need to suddenly turn into a Monster to get it.

[sir_guinglain]

I am sorry for Fankil, who has had a trying time; but I wouldn't like a cat so ready to use sharp claws. (My cousin's cat used hers on my sister for some months after she house-sat; it was only when she was sure that J was not going to displace cousin and family that she calmed down.)

[bunn]

I am really hoping that we can persuade him the claws (and teeth!) are unnecessary. He's a lovely cat most of the time!

[grundyscribbling]

Glad to hear the repairs are going well so far, fingers crossed that continues to be the case!

And wow, those cats!

[bunn]

I am SO looking forward to the end of the building. It gets wearing after a while!

[anna_wing]

Oh dear! A course of cat Prozac or appropriate equivalent? I am told that it can help sometimes, to, as it were, re-set the reactivity baseline.

Good luck with your renovation! The things that one finds upon renovation of old houses...someone I know was redoing her kitchen floor, and discovered that the wastewater pipes had rusted away to nothing, leaving a giant sinkhole (full of cockroaches) under her kitchen. Luckily for her it was mostly under the cupboards, which was probably why the whole thing hadn't (yet) fallen in.

[bunn]

That's a really good thought, about the cat prozac. I think we need to get the building work completed first, because although they have definitely got more tolerant of building noise, that was definitely a big part of the problem at one point, and I think it's still an additional stress.

!!! to the sinkhole of cockroaches, we have not discovered anything that nightmarish. Eeek!

[anna_wing]

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