Archive for September, 2009

While we were on holiday a friend came and cat sat for our beloved moggies.  Unfortunately poor old Tiggy died while we were away – she didn’t come in for her dinner and the next morning Ed found her under her favourie bush in the garden. 

A huge thank you to Ed for sorting this out and taking her up to the vets.  We aren’t sure why she died but the odvious thing was that she was a bit of a fatty and one of her organs was under too much pressure and failed as a result.  We had tried to get her weight down since we got her a year or so ago from the rescue centre – she was on diet food – but she never lost any weight (the vet thinks that she was ‘popping’ into other houses and helping herself to their cat’s food).

It is really sad that she died – she was adorable and Chad and I are missing her loads.

The interesting thing is the personality change in Sophie, our remaining cat.  The loss of her mother has totally changed her personality.  Whereas before she was shy and retiring, now she is highly vocal, affectionate and sits on our laps for attention (this NEVER happened even once before).  I have done some googling on this and it is probably simply that she was being submissive and was under oppressive mother rule. 

So there we go – we have a much happier cat on her hands.  Motherly love not always good love it appears.