For those who don't know, Oliver is the insane cat we adopted from a shelter back in March. I'm not kidding when I say he's insane. He can be a total spaz. I have a love/hate relationship with him. When he's being beyond mischievous and breaks things or bites the back of my leg "just because," he's not my favorite kitty. That's when I threaten to drive him back to the shelter. When he follows me around the house, "talks" to me and looks at me with his sparkling blue eyes, he melts my heart. That's when I can't imagine sending him back to live in a cage until another unsuspecting soul adopts him.
Oliver is quite the handful. He does normal kitten/young cat stuff but he also does things I've never dealt with before. He climbs the windows. This drives me insane. Our picture window has several panes and he jumps and hangs from the wood. I can hear his claws tearing it up. He does the same with our screen doors, then hangs from the screen by his claws until one of us rescues him. He's trying to catch the bugs outside. The solution is to close the doors and leave our outside light off, which I don't like to do. Until he calms down I have no choice.
He torments our other cat, Flower. She's sweet and mild mannered. He's territorial and dominating. He stalks her, pounces on her and pins her down. She screeches. At first we yelled at him a lot and used the spray bottle. It really didn't help.
He's not really affected by the spray bottle. *sigh*
Oliver can be adorable. He's very energetic. He runs through the house like a maniac when I get home from work in the afternoon. He has all kinds of pent up energy to get out of his system. Unfortunately, that's what gets him into trouble most of the time. LOL
Just a random pic taken a few days ago. I can't get over how big he is. He's not even a year old..
I gave up trying to keep him off the kitchen counter. He likes to lie on my perpetual pile of papers. Whatever. When he's there he's calm and quiet, which is a good thing. When I'm cooking I don't let him get on the counters. The other day he entertained himself by knocking my bills onto the floor and attacking them. Good boy!
Chewing the credit card bill.
So, today I'm going to keep him but who knows what tomorrow will bring. He better behave.
2 comments:
Love the pictures of him attacking the credit card bill and on the fridge. My dog eats flies too! So gross!
Aw... how can you stay mad at that face?!? LOL! Love reading about your adventures with him!
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