Melting!!

The snow and ice finally melted enough that we went to the grocery store today. I caved in an made a huge pot of beef stew too and man it was good. I don't have the money to keep up being a vegetarian at the moment. It's so expensive to buy the variety of food you need and every kind of cheap food seems to have some sort of additive in it that comes from animals, even ramen!

That said the cats are doing good. They got wet food again since mommy got paid. Casper had been getting picky and not wanting to eat. Now that he's inside and I have the other cats to compare him to I see more and more things that he doesn't do. Like he doesn't do the blinky thing that cats do to be friendly, he doesn't groom like my two girls either. I read a factoid that said cats groom 30% of the time, he doesn't groom anywhere close to that. Mostly he sleeps either in his "bunker"- a cat crate with his mini-cas and a bed in it, or he sleeps on my bed at the head on the pillows.

Anything out of the ordinary scares him. For example as I was writing this hubby was sitting on the bed and point out that he was stalking something. it was my hairbrush, it's not normally on the bed but I dried my hair earlier and left it there. It freaked him out, even though it has to smell like me he wouldn't even get close to it, he just backed up with I tried to get him to smell it.

He ducks when you go to pet him. He's been hit twice in his life, both reflex actions on my part when he was younger and pounced on me while I was a sleep, neither time was hard since they were half awake flailings in reaction to having a furry bomb land on my head. I've never purposefully hit him. Of course I don't know what his early kittenhood was like so who knows if that is actually a symptom of his injury or something more related to his experiences.

Despite all his eccentricities he's a great cat though, a real sweet snuggle bug with me and unless the other two mess with him he's well behaved. Well except for the two times he pee'd on my clothes after we moved to the house but move stress is normal for cats and even more expected in one in his condition. He's my Casper and I love him. :)