Introducing . . .

May 16, 2013

Today for the Writers Workshop I am going to introduce everyone to Sylvia. I know I have talked about her on here before but I am going to introduce her and add a few clips of some videos that I have with her in them.

Sylvia is about 6 years old and my grandma is the one who picked out her name. I already had Elinore when I decided I was going to adopt a kitten and I wanted them both to have “old” lady names. She has always been a handful and has always hated to be held and picked up. She is to this day still hates to be held. While you are holding her she is growling and hissing.

She does have long fur so she gets mats. Since she hates to be brushed we just brush the mats out when they are little because she will allow us to pet her when she wants to be petted. When she decides that she wants to be petted you have to drop everything and pet her or she will hiss and run away.

She is the first cat we have ever had that is either sitting still or running full speed. She doesn’t seem to go anywhere walking well she never used to but she has had to start slowing down because we redid the flooring in part of the house and she slides everywhere if she runs.

Here a few videos of her: The second one shows what she does when she wants to be petted and I try and move her off of me.

She is also scared of pretty much everything and I believe that is because she picked up on everything that Elinore was scared of in the beginning. Since Elinore was abused before I got her she was super scared of everything and has since started growing out of all of those things but Sylvia is still scared to death of pretty much everything.

That is pretty much all of Sylvia and some of the crazy things that she does.

What crazy things do your pets do?

Update on Elinore & Sylvia

February 4, 2013

So I haven’t written about the cubs in awhile so I figured that I would do an update on Elinore & Sylvia and also introduce them to any new followers that I have that may not know who the cubs are. I have 2 cats that I have always called the cubs because they tend to follow me around like bear cubs follow their mom’s. Their names are Elinore & Sylvia.

Elinore

I adopted Elinore from “No More Homeless Pets” about 6 or 7 years ago. She was abused before I got her. She only has half a tail and the pads on her front feet look like they have been burned or something like that. When I first got her she was super skittish and scared of most things. She has slowly come out of that but she still doesn’t like feet and she isn’t a huge fan of males. She also has start to have issues with using the litter box and I am not sure why she is having them so I can’t fix it.

Sylvia

I got Sylvia from one of my brothers ex-girlfriends and she is about 5 years old. She is by far the craziest cat I have had. She hates to be held in fact she pretty much hates to do just about anything when she isn’t doing it on her own. She only wants to be petted when she says so and at times that isn’t a great thing for us. She loves to sit on my grandma’s chest and get petted at night and she takes a dime view of you not wanting to pet her when she says that it is time. She also loves to play. She would play all day if someone would sit there and play with her feather toy.

Poor Sylvia

December 21, 2011

I haven’t written about my kids in awhile so I figure you might like to hear the latest thing that has happened to the baby of the group Sylvia. If you have followed for awhile you know I have 2 cats Elinore or Alley Cat and Sylvia. My grandparents also have a cat named Vinnie that has to be around 15 years old. I recently received an awesome product to review on my blog (that review will be up in the next few days). They packed the box with paper so that it wouldn’t shift while it was being shipped. Now my two cats are easily scared and my family has been known to torment them from time to time because of how they act. My grandparents cat has always loved paper. So he was playing in the paper and is actually still sleeping on the paper because every time we try and clean it up he gets upset that we get rid of it. Anyway Vinnie decided that he was going to hide in the paper and jump out at Elinore. Now of course she took of running both times he did it which gave me the great idea of scaring the girls myself. Let me just say Sylvia ran into the metal railing as she was trying to get away and go hide in the basement.

She finally at one point decided that it was safe to come up so she came into my room and I was taking her to eat because she hadn’t eaten because I had scared her. My brother hears me coming down the hall holding her and he scared her again. I think she would have been okay if she had only been scared the 2 times but then the next morning Vinnie is hiding in the paper again and scares poor Sylvia for the 3rd time.

Now my poor cat is having a hard time even functioning in the house. I am sure part of it is because the paper is still in the living room because my grandma refuses to throw it out because Vinnie is still sleeping in it. My hope is that after Christmas when the paper is gone and things are back to normal that she won’t be as scared as she is now.

***I know I shouldn’t have done it at all but it was funny. I did get pissed when my brother did it the second time but there was nothing I could do since I had no idea he was going to do it until I walked past the paper and him. If I had know I wouldn’t have walked down the hallway with her.