Cat-Sitting
Monday, December 30th, 2002 18:27![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeOver Christmas I stayed at my sister's house to cat-sit while she and her partner were in France visiting her partner's mother. I usually stay at my parents' house, but my brother, sister-in-law and 2-year-old nephew were staying there this year. My sister's house is only a few minute's walk away from my parents' house and anyway the cats like to have someone staying in the house, not just coming over to fill the cat-food dish.
Since my sister's partner and his cat Cookie moved in with my sister and her cat Maisie, the cats have never really got on. They have a long-running campaign of ambush and guerrilla warfare, punctuated by phases of totally ignoring each other. While I've been cat-sitting, Cookie has followed me around the house a lot and demanded lots of strokes, while Maisie has popped in occasionally to get some food but spent most of the time out of the house except in the evenings when she sat on my lap while I watched tv or lay along my thigh if I was lying down on the sofa. Cookie won't sit on people's laps, but looks very cross when Maisie does so, as she is jealous of maisie getting the attention. Cookie also has the strange habit of licking soap, which I caught her doing about once a day.
I went out to buy some food on Friday morning and met W (my sister's next door neighbour) down at the shops. She said she'd guessed that I was staying at my sister's house as Maisie hadn't moved in with her, which she usually does when my sister is away. Maisie gets on far better with W's cats Skip and Oliver than she does with Cookie and has always spent a lot of time over at W's house.
Since my sister's partner and his cat Cookie moved in with my sister and her cat Maisie, the cats have never really got on. They have a long-running campaign of ambush and guerrilla warfare, punctuated by phases of totally ignoring each other. While I've been cat-sitting, Cookie has followed me around the house a lot and demanded lots of strokes, while Maisie has popped in occasionally to get some food but spent most of the time out of the house except in the evenings when she sat on my lap while I watched tv or lay along my thigh if I was lying down on the sofa. Cookie won't sit on people's laps, but looks very cross when Maisie does so, as she is jealous of maisie getting the attention. Cookie also has the strange habit of licking soap, which I caught her doing about once a day.
I went out to buy some food on Friday morning and met W (my sister's next door neighbour) down at the shops. She said she'd guessed that I was staying at my sister's house as Maisie hadn't moved in with her, which she usually does when my sister is away. Maisie gets on far better with W's cats Skip and Oliver than she does with Cookie and has always spent a lot of time over at W's house.
