Casper

Still stuck at the house with hubby the cats and the boys and it looks like tomorrow will be the same. Work and class are canceled again. Hopefully I'll get back to work soon, I have to get paid so that the bills get paid! I don't work for the whole month of December since university is out for break but that means I don't get paid either so the bank account is getting rather thin at the moment. Still I can make it another round of bills but I'll be eating ramen for sure.

On a good note, and what the title of this post is about Casper did something today I'm not sure I've seen him do before, or at least not in a long time. Casper's brain damage seems to have affected his ability to relate to other felines. He does ok with people most of the time but he seems to routinely miss cues from the other cats, such as Cali trying to play with him. He always seems to think that she's trying to actually attack him instead of just playing, which ends up in a fight because he then feels like he has to defend himself.

Today Casper did something perfectly normal, he blinked as cats will do, and when I blinked back he blinked again just like any other normal kitty. Since he normally struggles with these interactions this was a pretty big moment. His eyes recently started dilating and contracting properly so I wonder if this is another sign of him possibly having some rewiring happen in his brain.

Also he and Cali were laying on the bed together, not just both on the bed but actually touching and snuggled up against each other, which up until this point had never happened. He's only just adjusted to her even existing after more than a year so I take that as a good sign as well. It's nice to see them getting along better, now if he and Suki would get along my life as far as the feline part of it goes, would get a lot easier.

I guess it'll be just something that I basically have to wait and see on. Maybe it was a fluke but just maybe at the same time he's improving even more. Hopefully he'll continue to improve because I know that it would improve his life and his enjoyment of the world around him. Well, one can only keep hoping I suppose.