#cat watson

[thekittyfox2999]

Little itty bitty kitty i drew

Getting dumped on the side of the street because of your inability to fight with your broken leg is terrible. Maybe someone will come along and... pick you up?

[anintricateanalysis]

I’m so happy that Cat is safe! :) he probably like the laundry hamper because it was warm in there. I am now imagining him yowling from there ;)

I am so relieved.  I would have never forgiven myself if he’d got out onto the street.

[johnhenrywatsonholmes]

Morning stretches on Watson’s bed, which seems to be his new favourite spot:

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Somehow Cat got outside, and was out there for heaven knows how long, in the sleet and rain.  As he has a tendency to hide himself away in the house, we didn’t miss him until Ada started barking constantly to go out, which she never does (she hates going out in the rain, which is very odd for a Retriever who is supposed to love water).  When we let her out, she ran straight to the shed at the back of the garden, and then came back a short while later with cat held gently in her mouth.  Excellent dog!  

Poor cat was wet, and miserable, and cold, and John is sure he is now more traumatised than every, and is going to get ill.  He’s been coddling him all morning by the fire.  Being ridiculous with Cat wrapped in a blanket, held in the crook of his arm like a child, feeding him bits of tuna.

I told him that perhaps if Cat would stop wandering off and hiding himself away he wouldn’t keep re-traumatizing himself, and he snapped and told me that I used to wander off in the middle of the night, and wake up terrified, so I should use this great brain of mine and try to learn an ounce of empathy.  Rude.

We’re not speaking at the moment.

I hate it.

I wish it would stop raining.  Spring cannot come soon enough.

[anintricateanalysis]

Hello. How is your Sunday going? I hope you’re all feeling alright. I have to tell you that I got to pet a golden retriever today that was only 11 months old, and I thought of Ada :) how are she and Cat getting along?

I’m glad you had such a pleasant dog encounter.  Ada and Cat are beginning to get a long quite well.  I believe that they have accepted one another even if they may not quite be friends, quite yet.

Today has been--quite a lot.  We had to go back into London, because this is the week that John has to get caught up on his certifications for work, and I promised I would go with him.  However, the weather has been abysmal, both in East Dean and in London, and the roads are terrible, so we decided to take the train.  That meant getting a toddler, a dog, and a yowling, crated cat all the way from East Dean to Eastbourne by 6:00 to catch the train.

Fortunately, the train was all but empty until we got to Lewes.  It filled up a bit then, and there were a couple of children who had no concept of personal space or manners.  They kept running up trying to pet Ada, when I told them not to, and then they took Watson’s crayons, which led to Watson hitting the one boy across the head with her colouring book, and then John and the boy’s father had a bit of a tense confrontation.

I’ve never been so glad to get off a train in my life.  Now we’re all fed and settled at the flat, and Cat is beside himself, still yowling, crawling all over John, and John is exhausted, so I think he is losing his patience with that.

I am just running Watson’s bath, and then once she’s down for the night, I think I am going to take John to bed early.  Perhaps Cat will calm down when he can curl around John’s head, on the pillow, as he is wont to do.

[anintricateanalysis]

Cat is a very vocal animal.  He never stops yowling.

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Hello :) How are you all doing this Saturday? Is it spring yet over there? It feels like spring here. At least the snow is mostly gone ;) Have Ada and Cat done anything particularly entertaining lately? Is Cat still hiding himself away and getting lost? Not that that’s entertaining, of course. Poor thing :/

Apologies, I did not see this until now.  We have been very busy doing a great deal of nothing, and so I have not been here  much.  

Cat is starting to hide away less.  I believe he is becoming more confident that John will not leave him permanently, mostly due to the fact that the rain has kept us confined to the house a great deal.  With the exception of our excursion to Brighton to see the Aquarium, and our visit to the shore on Friday, we have mostly been indoors.  Cat is learning that John is not leaving him, even when he has to go out for a little while.

Ada has not done anything particularly entertaining.  She continues to be a fine dog, though I believe that she is getting as restless as we are with all this rain.  It will be good to be able to let her loose in the garden again.

Spring does appear to be here, finally.  This coming week even promises some sun, so John is eager to get out to his gardens, and I need to complete my last minute preparations on the hives, as my bees arrive in two weeks.  I believe that John wants to return to his morning run schedule, as well.

John has been very brave, of late.  He has been dealing with some very difficult things in therapy, and as a result has had some days where he has been very low.  I’m sure that the poor weather is not helping.  But then there have been days where he has seemed happier than I’ve seen him in a long time, as well, so I suppose that his dealing with those things is necessary, and having a beneficial effect, despite the difficulty.

It has been hard to see him struggle, and wonderful to see him so happy.  I’m very proud of him.  He works exceptionally hard to be the sort of man he wants to be, and I’m still not sure if he realised quite how remarkable he actually is.  The very best of men.  I am very fortunate in him.  

It is still difficult to process the fact that he is mine and I am his, that he wants me, to spend a life with me, to make me his family.  Mummy was quite ridiculously sentimental about it when she was here a few days ago.  But, she said she is happy for me, and I believe she was sincere in that.  And of course, she was quite right.  I am happy, and have been for quite a stretch now, which is a unique situation for me.

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Oh my goodness, that kitten is so beautiful!!! Look at those eyes!💜💜💜💜

He is a rather elegant looking animal, though regal and mysterious as he may appear, he is actually rather clingy and needy.  He keeps rubbing his face all over John’s whiskers and and purring, and if John tries to put him down, he trots along behind him, yowling, until John picks him up again.