Cats dominating
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Simon dominating |
For the past few weeks, every other day or so, I hear Galen squeak, and find Simon on top of him doing the dominating neck hold thing. Galen does not seem to care much, though, as when I arrive and Simon gets off Galen, Galen just lies back comfortably and looks at me.
Galen, in turn, has been doing the neck hold thing to Minerva, but she doesn’t seem to mind at all (being in love with him), and in fact goes up to him doing little prodding and poking things to him, which sometimes results in his holding her down. Sometimes Minerva seems to be trying to provoke Galen in a tussle, and I hear her hiss at him, after she has kicked him with a back leg and he then stood up, towering over her with his ears in the irritated pose.
Sometimes Simon seems to want to play fight with the others, but no one wants to do it anymore. I’ve been getting a little tense at times, as I am afraid of Simon getting riled up too much and doing to the others what he did to Snookums. He does bring them crickets from the outside pen, so I guess he is trying to be nice to them. None of them hiss at him like Snookums did, so I guess he won’t respond to them like he did to her.
Maybe Jolie doesn’t really care about that stuff, as she is at the bottom of the hierarchy (I think), so her position is safe, (laugh). Though, she has been doing challenging things to Sumner, the only one it would be really safe for her posture against.
I think it may more likely be that her UTI is just from some bacteria from fecal matter, as the vet said it could be.
Anyway, since I was off work today and was up most of the night, Jolie and I had a nice snuggle nap. She seemed very needy, and crawled up to lay her head on my chest, kneading and purring. She hasn’t done that since we rescued her. It was so endearing. Then she would lay on my stomach, then my feet, than back up to my chest. I hope this second round of meds does the trick. It is seeming to be the case, for the cats and people, that one round of antibiotics doesn’t clear things up like it seems it used to.