Oh my goodness, I completely forgot to share spooks story with you so will put that right now.
Spook is a beautiful grey cat with a white ring round his tail and is about sixteen years old. He is very aloof and hates being picked up or cuddled and used to remain in the background all the time.
Now don't get me wrong, when I was adopted I was not fond of cats so Spooks aloofness suited me fine. Whenever mom was not looking I used to give him a sly kick which would make him hiss which then earned him a telling off as my kick had not been noticed. Later I got a bit blase about it and got caught so now the parents watch me more carefully!!
Anyway, Spook used to belong to a previous girlfriend of Dad's and was so huge he could not even manage to jump on a chair!! If he miaowed he was given food non stop. Even then he was not friendly.
His owner and Daddy parted company and she decided to go back to south America to be closer to family and left Spook behind. Daddy found out and quickly drove to her old house with a friend to rescue Spook.
When Tucker joined our family, Spook surprised everyone by strolling out of the bedroom and walking up to Tucker introduced himself nose to nose . Tuck loves Spook and checks on him before bed each night..he won't settle until he knows where spook is.
Mom has been working on him and he has slimmed down and can now jump on counters and clear the stable doors into kitchen and hallway. He has taken it upon himself to teach the kitten to jump them too,however try as he might simba still crashes in to the top so can spook has decided to spend each night teaching him while we try to sleep...crash...crash...crash grrr
Each morning spook jumps on the bed, looks back at the kitten then at Dad...."the boy is an idiot dad" then settles down for a day of snoozing!
Mom caught him the other day shyly playing with one of the kittens toys with a look of wonderment on his face. There is hope for him yet !!
Love and waggles
Ellie xx x
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