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What’s with Maine Coons?

Ever since I wrote a casual piece a while ago about a rescue Maine Coon we saw, the majority of visitors to this blog have been searching for the words Maine Coon!!!

68% of my readers arrived having typed Maine Coon into google!

That’s just not fair. But if you can’t beat ’em, Join ’em!

I wonder if I type Maine Coon again, I’ll get another 100 visitors? :-)

If you arrived here hoping to read about those rather large and impressive felines, please feel free to vent your disappointment in the comments section below!!

Thanks for reading!

Coming up to Freya’s "Gotchaday"!

I’m planning on making her a kitty cake, but I’m not sure I can think of a clever way of doing it.

Imagine meaty victoria sponge? fruitcake made with REAL mincedmeat?

I think I might just get the most expensive little can of sheba or whatever catches my eye, and just serve it up in a cake shape.

Whose benefit do you REALLY think this whole birthday celebration is for?

Also, Mommacat has been in hospital with a gallstone, so Freya made her a card.

I don’t know who she thinks she’s kidding about housework. Although she does do quite a lot of dusting under the tables and cupboards I suppose!

Snow leopard!

We had the best snow today for 18 years!

I wondered what Freya would think of it – She is looking out of the window, but I couldn’t say if it was more than usual, or even if she looks puzzled as to why it looks so different!

Anna took her outside to see what she would do, but to be honest, she only seemed to wan tto come back inside!

Cats eh? No sense of adventure! :-)

News Update!

Well, I’ll hang my head in shame for not updating since September. Freya’s been fine, with no problems, so I guess that’s why I’ve not felt the urge to write.

We had an adventure at Christmas, where Freya went with us to Anna’s parent’s house 4 hours drive away.

We borrowed a big cage off a friend, and equipped it with padded cushions, and covered it with puppy pads (sheets of nappy material). Sprayed Feliway all over it, and in all honesty, I don’t really think it had any effect. She didn’t appear to sniff where we’d sprayed it, and she yowled for abut 3 hours and I guess wore herself out for the last hour of the journey.

Once we got there, we confined her to whatever room we were in, so she never had the run of the house. This turned out to be a very good idea, as for the first day or two, she would have her own hidey hole in each room, and woul donly come out for food, biscuits, and sometimes cuddles.

Overall I don’t think it was a bad decision to take her. There may have been some stress for her, being away from home, but she was with us at all times and protected, and there was a lot of mental stimulation for her too, and that’s never a bad thing…

I wish I’d taken some pictures! Instead, here are some upto date ones instead

Freya loves her biscuits!

Wee problem – SOLVED, YAY!

We’ve been having a bit of a rough time recently with Freya weeing pretty much anywhere. Almost with no pattern except that she never weed in the lounge. Pretty much every room in the house was fair game!

we tried all sorts of different litter, the “Cellulose” based one – That was a good laugh – why not just call it paper? :-) That went soft and looked unpleasant to me too! she used that a couple of times, and then stopped. I assumed that was because it went soft, and she likes to have a good dig around.

So then I bought that expensive white granulated litter, and really don’t think she used that once! It was when we were trying that litter that I discovered “poo corner” in the far corner of the studio. Looked like she’d gone there about 2-3 times! Luckily they were all dry and just scooped up with no mess at all. PHEW! By this time, I’d try and tempt her into the litter tray, and she wouldn’t even sniff it, just walk out and away again.

We kind of noticed after then, that the most common place for her to wee was in the hall, about 1 metre from the front door. In desperation I put the litter tray there, and SHE USED IT!

I really can’t think why the upstairs location became no good for her – she’d used it absolutely fine for the first 2 months, and then with no real changes, she just stopped using it. The only thing I can think of is that she liked to wee at the entrance to her domain?

It’s not like she ever goes out of the front door anyway, but maybe she sees us going out and in, and knows it that way? The other possibility is that the late Auntie Scampie used to have her litter tray there, and maybe there’s some smell left.

I just know that still, even after about 3-4 days, every time I hear her scratching around in the litter tray, I have a happy feeling inside, as it means I’m not going to have to scrub up the carpet! :-)

But why did she use upstairs for so long before deciding it wasn’t for her??

Anyway, here’s some pics of tin foil carpets! I’m not sure when I’ll have the guts to take up all the foil, and besides, it stops the FBI and their mind control rays!