Hello everyone! It’s been awhile since I’ve posted on here about Arabella so I’ll give a brief history of our situation.
About a year ago, a neighbor’s cat started coming over and we fell in love with her. Her family, I think unknowingly, neglected her and she was not in great shape (licked herself bald, cuts all over, thin, didn’t know how to play with cat toys) and she decided she was going to adopt us. Around Thanksgiving, we let her move inside into the heated garage and we would sleep together every night in there. When it started getting warm out, we migrated upstairs to my bedroom where there was AC. She wasn’t thrilled at first and preferred the garage, but she knows that’s our room now.
She’s very sweet, but sassy, and doesn’t like to be pet for too long. She would lay on my chest and purr as she nudged my face and I’d pet and scratch her cheeks, and after a few minutes she’d go to lay down in her own spot, next to me but not touching me. About a month ago, we converted the garage into a room for my grandma because she doesn’t have much time left and couldn’t live alone. Before grandma got here, Arabella was still hanging out in the converted garage sometimes, but knew come nighttime, we went upstairs to sleep in our own room. Over the past few weeks, she’s slowly been jumping up on my chest and cuddling with me more often. Usually I’d get a chest cuddle once or twice a week for 15 minutes, and now it’s to where she won’t sleep unless she’s on top of me or up against me. She used to lay in my spot when I would work late and she was in the room alone, but now, even if I get up out of bed for one minute, she’s jumping in my spot.
She tends to get sick a lot and when she does, she’s very really cuddly. When I was sick once, she was bringing me “gifts” every day and being cuddly. I’m not sure if she’s sick and just showing no other signs (she’s eating, playing like a mad women with her boa toys and cat nip toys, running around, climbing trees, working as pest control services of the property, and enjoying her cat nip and cat grass plants) but usually when she’s sick, I’m able to tell something is up. Could it be because grandma just moved in and took her favorite room in the house and she can feel that I’m really stressed out and tense from taking care of her all day? It’s been really rough because she has dementia and my parents put it on me and my sister and I’m also trying to finish my last two college classes so I can get my degree, and working, and looking for jobs. Is she trying to deal with the changes and/or comfort me? Or did she just finally realize sleeping on or against her mommy is MUCH warmer than sleeping alone? I don’t think she slept with her old family much so maybe it’s just new to her? Any advice!?
About a year ago, a neighbor’s cat started coming over and we fell in love with her. Her family, I think unknowingly, neglected her and she was not in great shape (licked herself bald, cuts all over, thin, didn’t know how to play with cat toys) and she decided she was going to adopt us. Around Thanksgiving, we let her move inside into the heated garage and we would sleep together every night in there. When it started getting warm out, we migrated upstairs to my bedroom where there was AC. She wasn’t thrilled at first and preferred the garage, but she knows that’s our room now.
She’s very sweet, but sassy, and doesn’t like to be pet for too long. She would lay on my chest and purr as she nudged my face and I’d pet and scratch her cheeks, and after a few minutes she’d go to lay down in her own spot, next to me but not touching me. About a month ago, we converted the garage into a room for my grandma because she doesn’t have much time left and couldn’t live alone. Before grandma got here, Arabella was still hanging out in the converted garage sometimes, but knew come nighttime, we went upstairs to sleep in our own room. Over the past few weeks, she’s slowly been jumping up on my chest and cuddling with me more often. Usually I’d get a chest cuddle once or twice a week for 15 minutes, and now it’s to where she won’t sleep unless she’s on top of me or up against me. She used to lay in my spot when I would work late and she was in the room alone, but now, even if I get up out of bed for one minute, she’s jumping in my spot.
She tends to get sick a lot and when she does, she’s very really cuddly. When I was sick once, she was bringing me “gifts” every day and being cuddly. I’m not sure if she’s sick and just showing no other signs (she’s eating, playing like a mad women with her boa toys and cat nip toys, running around, climbing trees, working as pest control services of the property, and enjoying her cat nip and cat grass plants) but usually when she’s sick, I’m able to tell something is up. Could it be because grandma just moved in and took her favorite room in the house and she can feel that I’m really stressed out and tense from taking care of her all day? It’s been really rough because she has dementia and my parents put it on me and my sister and I’m also trying to finish my last two college classes so I can get my degree, and working, and looking for jobs. Is she trying to deal with the changes and/or comfort me? Or did she just finally realize sleeping on or against her mommy is MUCH warmer than sleeping alone? I don’t think she slept with her old family much so maybe it’s just new to her? Any advice!?
