06/07/2023 – At Last!

This is Murray. She’s a late afternoon backyard visitor to Colehaus and Mom’s been trying to make friends with her for five long months, maybe longer but we’re not getting wrapped up in the details here.

Murray lives in the next block over, on a mostly safe and quiet street that’s used to seeing raccoons and cats crossing at all times of day and night.

After a particularly trying day at work, Mom took two minutes to sit outside on the cement steps to look at Murray laying at the end of the walkway. Mom may have had her trusty crinkly bag of dried Chicken Catnip treats with her, like you do. She closed her eyes for a moment, and when she opened them:

Murray had crept close. Mom held her breath and didn’t move.

Of course, when one gives you the squinty eyes of love and approval, one squints their eyes right back. Slowly, Mom set a finger-full of treats onto the step next to her and . . .

Murray went for the treats and rubbed her chin on the catnip. She sniffed Mom’s finger and accepted Mom’s bold, single top-of-the-head petting. Silently to herself, Mom squealed, “YES! Success!”

The very next evening, Mom and Murray ran through a rinse and repeat scenario with the exception of a full body petting accepted instead of a single head petting. Mom’s convinced Murray is a girl and reports that Murray feels very good and solid, though she could stand a brushing due to what Mom thinks may be a slight undercoat pile up (no mats yet found).

After a greet and eat, Murray returned to the backyard where she lounged on a patio chair to watch birds until nearly dusk when she slipped back down over the back boulder wall toward home.

It’s special moments like this that makes all this worthwhile, don’t you think?

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A Colehaus Cats flashback:

2022 – No post
2021 – MultiCat Monday
2020 – No post
2019 – No post
2018 – No post
2017 – No post
2016 – No post
2015 – No post
2014 – No post
2013 – That Girl 2
2012 – No post

Having rediscovered the one month in which not much recapping happened, Here’s a random June blog post to enjoy!