Rosie and Paddy tales/tails

The Rosie & Paddy thread! This is going to be great fun, Vivian!
I'm looking forward to their first photograph together.

mmmm! g'day, not sure when that will be!

Rosie has just been down for breakfast - she refused it earlier - played a bit throught the banisters, no growling though and then took herself off upstairs to bed again, refusing to be caught and held.

Oh, dear! Nose out of joint, obviously. Poor Rosie, now she'll have to share the attention. Lucky there are 2 of you!

But Rosie is eating. That's good!

Our two monsters are brother and sister so they don't know anything else than being together.

I am very much looking forward to lots of Rosie and Paddy stories! And pictures!

tiny tiny progress - Rosie is obviously interested - she came back downstairs within minutes and came and had a close look at him (inches) without growling or hissing.

She then came and almost played with me and is now sitting in the hall watching him chase his tail! - this is a big improvement on yesterday when she refused to be in the same room.


We're just trying to give her loads of reassurance that she's still loved and that Paddy isn't going to eat her!

Paddy just settled in immediately as though he'd always lived here - he's currently flying all over the place - sofa to windowsill to me to himself and round again ..... He talks as well which is endearing - looks you in the eye and miaows at you.


urs - my friend adopted a brother and sister, who were inseperable as kittens - but when the grew up the male bullied the female terribly, doing spiteful things like sitting just inside the cat flap and not allowing her back in! it is lovely that yours get on so well.

She's probably thinking: "Boys!" <sniff!>

probably! and I'm not even sure if she knows she's a cat! she needs to learn how to socialise with other cats bless her

she keeps creeping up and down stairs and watching though so we're definitely moving forward. Like the shy kid who wants to join the game but daren't ....

She'll come good, not to worry, Vivien. Besides, you know kittens ... soon he's going to zonk out after all that manic energy. THAT will be the moment for a Rosie inspection!

Ohhhhh!!!! What a sweet new kitty you've got there Vivien. I know Rosie is a bit ticked off right now, but it sounds like she's getting over it slowly and I'm sure they'll be friends real soon. Rosie is young and she'll grow to enjoy having a play mate.

Good luck and have fun.

My kitten thinks she's human too, lol :-D

your kitten is absolutely gorgeous Montana - any new photos@

Them having fun together is the general idea but progress is slow - he's disappeared ?upstairs at the moment - that's where she's sulking. He has the sense to back off if she hisses so I'm not too worried.

Still making a big fuss of her at every opportunity and she's thawing.

Congratulations! I'm a sucker for black cats. OK I'm a sucker for all cats, and I guess calicos are at the top of the list. But black cats with green eyes -- oooh!

Looking forward to more stories! Rosie is such a personality.

a spiky thorny little rose at the moment though!

I do have some new photo's and I will post them when I get the chance. Cali is still beautiful and she would look so cool next to Paddy. My son and I came very close to taking home a black kitten along with our pure white Cali, but 2 cats would have been a bit too much for us. I do kick myself sometimes though, because I know it would have been great for her to have a playmate. She does get plent of attention from all 3 of us, so I don't feel too bad.

Cali looks blissfully happy in the photos you've shown.


Rosie still isn't happy - Paddy has been chasing her up and down stairs! she doesn't know what to make of it but runs away and then hisses. He's so unfazed it's amazing! He's desperate for her to play. he keeps dancing and prancing in front of her and miaows an invitation to chase him ......<hiss, spit, growl from under the desk>

I think I'll have to shut Paddy in a separate room when I go out, just in case of harm but we're trying not to interfere too much at the moment, just doling out lots of love and reassurance to Rosie and having hysterics at the sight of a great big tiger running away from a small fluffy panther!

Actually, Vivien, it might be a good idea to leave them together when you go out. I don't think anything really MAJOR will happen. And it'll give Rosie a chance to check him out without a sympathetic audience. :wink:

I try not to interfere - had to a while back to stop Paddy intimidating her too much! Tomorrow I'm home all day and can leave them to it. I just worry that if she really turns on him in fear she might hurt him

She is better today - met me and cuddled me when I came home from work - I gave her chicken in the kitchen on her own before going to see Paddy.

She went off huffy but came down to investigate quite quickly and has stayed in the living room with us all evening. Paddy has been pleading with her to play - prancing about and miaowing - all she does is hiss if he gets too near and run and hide if he doesn't stop!


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Rosie and her teddy.

She sat on the windowsill behind the curtains for a bit to hide - then Paddy looked at Rosie's teddy and I said 'that's Rosie's teddy' - she instantly poked her head round the curtain to make sure he wasn't having it! (it's one of the phrases she knows). She settled there and David gave her the teddy so she held and chewed it for a bit - Paddy then got brave again and kept jumping up and bopping her throught the curtain - major hissy fit so I rescued her by moving him as she was trapped there!

I gave her a cuddle earlier while Paddy slept on himself's knee, she melted into me all sweet but with a low grumbling swearing about how displeased she is! weird combination - she eventually remembered she was meant to be sulking and went off again.


Oh - and this morning had an awful start - we'd given them both the run of the house last night and himself had been up for about an hour and me for about 40mins and Paddy hadn't appeard - Rosie seemed more like her old self and quite calm and eating well. We both secretly began to wonder if he was somewhere injured .... or worse. We searched everywhere and called and called - nothing. Finally he just appeared - relief! we both then admitted we'd feared the worst.

he's trouble!

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the little grey patch on his leg is where he was shaved for injections during his op

What a wonderful photograph of Rosie with her teddy, Vivien. Beautiful!

And of course, a delighful photograph of Mr Trouble!

I'm sure things are going to work themselves out. It's just the stress for the 2 humans as it happens! Rosie just needs to rediscover the joys of cat play after thinking she's a person for so long! She will!

late last night Rosie started chasing him! a bit aggressively with much growling and hissing but at least she's striking back (not literally so far!) - he had to run - but kept coming back straight away for more, so though he knows when enough is enough and discretion the better part of valour, he isn't really intimidated.

Let's hope this is the beginning of her realising that this can be FUN!

We kept them separated overnight in case this new found bravery ended in him getting hurt.

This morning he came up to visit me in bed when himself got up and released him from the living room. He curled up and purred for a while with Rosie watching from on top of a chest where she tends to sleep at night on a blanket. When I got up and stroked her she accepted it cheerfully and didn't hiss because I'd been stroking him - definite progress!

Rosie chased Mr Trouble!?
Things are looking up!