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| Watson’s Soot Smudge |
Feline Friday
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| Peake thinks Watson Makes a good Pillow |
Feline Friday
After Michael and I got Peake and Watson, Sweetness and Light were desperate to meet the cats. So I took them to visit.
Since then, it’s become something we do every few weeks. We get on the metro, take it from College Park to Silver Spring, then take the Bus (the girls love riding on the high seats in the back) to the closest stop. From there, we walk to my apartment.
I’m not sure who loves the visits more – Sweetness and Light, or Watson and Peake. The kittens get someone that will chase and play with them for several hours straight. The girls get to play with kittens. I get to take a bit of a break and sit in the comfy chair and watch the four of them romp for about 2 hours straight, AND Michael and I get a good night’s sleep as the cats are too tired to make trouble. Finally, the kittens learn how to deal with children that perhaps are not as respectful of cat-boundaries as grownups. Peake and Watson have learned to be quite tolerant of the girls.
Not a bad deal at all.
Feline Friday – Watson
When Michael and I adopted Peake and Watson, I was hoping that two cats might give me an edge. You see, I have this terrible problem. Cats love Michael. Doesn’t matter where we are, strays will try to follow him home, cats that aren’t friendly even to their owners will love Michael. We’ll go to a friend’s house, and by the end of the night, if that person has a cat, the cat will be camped out on Michael’s lap.
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| Watson sleeping |
It’s problematic for two reasons. I have to compete with the cat for Michael’s affections *grins* AND I don’t stand a chance of a cat liking me more than Michael. I was hoping that if we had two cats, I’d increase my chances of one of them liking me at least as much as Michael.
If I have any hope of that happening, it rests with Watson. Watson shows all signs of mellowing out into a cuddle cat. While he isn’t there yet (he’s still a kitten, though less so than in this picture) he will be the one to leap into my lap when I’m working at my desk and snuggling with me.
Feline Friday
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| Zephyr |
You might have noticed a while ago that I let the feline friday feature fade from the blog. There were several reasons for this – Zephyr, our room mate’s cat, became very sick after Michael and I moved from our room mate’s apartment. A few months later, he died, and I found it hard to post pictures of him after he had gone.
However, a few months ago Michael and I decided it was time to adopt a cat of our own in our new apartment. *grins* In the course of a weekend it turned from one cat to two, and shortly afterwards we found a family that had adopted two kittens only to find that their children were allergic.
I’ve now accumulated enough pictures of our two cats that I feel comfortable re-opening this feature.
Let me introduce you to Watson and Peake. Peake is named after the C&O’s famous Chessie‘s husband, Peake (I’ll talk about the history of that more another time). Michael’s family has a (formerly) grey tabby named Chessie (she darkened with age, and is now a black cat). It felt appropriate to name our grey tabby Peake. Also, Zephyr is the name of a rail line in Califorina (the California Zephyr), so it was nice to stick with the theme in honor of Zephyr.
Watson is white, and his name has less meaning behind it – Michael and I have a list (of course we do) of good cat names. Watson was the one that seemed to fit. Watson isn’t really entirely white – he has the smallest smudge of black/brown on his forehead. It looks like he got a bit of soot there, and he hasn’t groomed it away yet.
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| Peake and Watson |
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