...our grey tabby jumps into the box and rolls around in it...for several minutes. And when she uses it, its like she's doing the breast stroke in the Olympics to dig a hole and bury. She's going to become officially ours next month when we take our other cat for is annual check up, she was a neighbors father's cat until he passed and she took her in. But she wasn't happy there and became and indoor/outdoor cat.
Other neighbors around the area tried to coax her in but she wasn't interested apparently. One day our 18 year old is making a fuss at the sliding glass door and there she was. Usually he scares other cats away, but could not do it to her. I go outside and sit on a patio chair she jumps on the next one and I start giving her rubs....she would not let my hand leave for awhile. Eventually I go back in, thinking she'll find her way home. Nope, everyday she shows up and sleeps on the patio chairs. My wife gives in and gets her water.
Then we did it. My wife opens a can of wet food and she devours the entire thing. Our 18 year old never did that and was picky at times. So now we were worried if she was abandoned. But held out hope she would go back as she did leave for several hours at a time. Over New Years of the previous year we went to a friends place to celebrate, came home and she wasn't there. Watched a little TV and said, I think she went home. Went to pour myself another glass of wine and there she was. And it was going to be a very cold night.
So my wife sets up water, a pillow, litter box and food in my office. I grab her from outside and put her in there and giver her attention. And of course, she liked being in my Teams meetings. I take a picture of her and send it to a few neighbors and they tell me who owns her, but she works a lot and odd shifts. Print out a note and leave it on the gate. She responds after a couple of days and bring her back. Well, everytime she opened the door to go to work she would escape and come to our place. Wash, rinse and repeat a few times. Finally she says, can you just take her, she obviously doesn't want to be here and wants to be with you. Of course we said yes as our other 18 year old was suffering from kidney disease, vet gave him less than a year, we stretched it out to a year and a half. But his last three months he started suffering from seizures, went blind, etc. So we had to do the unthinkable, and put him down.
We went on vacation for a couple of weeks and one neighbor comes in to check and feed them. She was worried as she used to be outdoors she would run out. Nope, she has absolutely no desire to go outside, like she knows how dangerous it is out there and she now has it good.
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