Pia gets along with . . . nobody! Hey, this here place is only big enough for one diva, thank you very much. But she loves Mom and Dad with all her gingery heart.
Quint gets along great with Olivia. We’re pretty sure it borders on love. They don’t always cuddle or sleep together but neither shy away from the other and when they do cuddle, it’s everything you could imagine two cuddly cuddlebugs could be. Quint is too interested in whenever Pia has business to attend to in the litterbox, likes to believe Tessa will romp with him endlessly, and will, on occasion, sniff Viola face-to-face. Otherwise, he ignores her.
Olivia is very fond of Quint (see Quint above). She avoids Pia because Big, Scary Ginger Diva, mostly avoids Tessa because Tessa has an eight years-long reputation for picking on Olivia, and would prefer taunting Viola to the point of growling, than to be friends.
Viola gets along with Quint but only in the “Yeah, I know you. Do you still live here?” sense, avoids Pia (see Olivia’s reasoning above), stays out of sight of Olivia and growls when Olivia hones in on her, and alternates between strong dislike of Tessa and imitating nearly everything Tessa does. Viola is extraordinarily independent and you just don’t tell her to stop doing that.
Tessa doesn’t just have a spot on the bridge of her nose (courtesy of Quint who, for some odd reason, didn’t like Tessa’s nose in his bid-ness), she has several spots she calls her own.
This spot is under the buffet (boo-fay). It’s a nice, out-of-the-way place to hang out and stay out from under foot. Unless Dad has ground turkey out. Then, Tessa is all about being under foot!
Someone who shall remain nameless but whose name begins with a T, might have barfed in her most favorite box up on the boo-fay and we had to swap it out. At the time, all we had was a much smaller box. Tessa wasn’t exactly happy about the size, but she wasn’t exactly unhappy she had a fresh box, either.