Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Her Assertions

My foster-cat, Portia, is asserting herself in the Cosy Apartment. She knows how to communicate her wishes, getting her point across plainly. Aside from the hissing and whapping of her early days with me, she has also learned how to talk to me - or perhaps the phrase should be, how to make me listen.

 

In addition to picking up swiftly on the definitions of “dinner” and “snack”, Po has let me know when she is hungry. Yesterday, she climbed up onto my desk and sat in front of me, effectively blocking my attempts at work.

 

In the evenings, when the summer sun shines directly into my apartment, I draw the blinds in the bedroom, to reduce the temperature there a bit. Portia now comes into the bedroom now and then, and likes sitting on the ledge under the window to look out. While the boys accept the drawn blinds and, if they are intent on viewing the outside, go to another window, Portia has instead complained to me, telling me that - in case I was unaware - the blinds were drawn and she couldn’t look out. I am instructed to raise the blinds.

 

During the day, when I am at work, I close the sliding glass door to the concrete ditch. It is not closed completely, but is latched in place by a bar, so that it cannot be opened wide enough for someone to get in. Some air passes by the slightly open door and through the screen. But Portia likes to sit with the door open to the full screen. As soon as I come home, she will trot over to the sliding door and demand that it be opened.

 

My foster-cat, Portia, is asserting herself in the Cosy Apartment.


14 comments:

  1. I do believe the lady of the house knows what she wants and when she
    wants it. Your only job, in her eyes, is to obey. It is such fun to
    see she is now enjoying life with you and in the cosy apartment. Not
    to be fearful or maybe it was tooth pain.

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  2. We're glad she is communicating effectively now!

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  3. It's funny. I've never owned a calico, but I've known several of them, and they are *all* very good at giving orders. Even more so than most cats, that is to say.

    She's definitely settling in.

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  4. I'm pretty certain she's certain she's staying. :)

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  5. As the saying goes, "Dogs have owners - cats have staff". I think Portia has her staff well trained!

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  6. John and family
    Thanks so much for your kind words when I left for the bridge. I have been with you in sad and happy times and know that we will be there in times to come.
    Love you all Friends
    Timmy Tomcat and Family

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  7. She certainly doesn't have a passive personality! It didn't take her long to train you, though of course you've had lots of prior experience in catering to cats' wishes, especially female cats' wishes. :-)

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  8. girls rule !!!!! hugs to you portia from dai$y say let's go shopping !! =^..*= ♥♥♥

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  9. The female is always the boss and now Portia expects her orders to be obeyed.

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  10. Portia, you are a girlcat through and through. EVERY inch and molecule...purely girlcat! No one need ever wonder whether you're a girl or boy cat. I should say lady cat because you left your girlishness behind and assumed the Mantle of Ladycat.

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  11. Obviously, Portia is beginning to chillax!

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  12. We love that Portia feels confident enough to communicate with you now!

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  13. Like most, l'm a Google person...
    So l Googled the name Portia...
    AND....
    Portia is beautiful, gracious, rich, intelligent, and quick-witted, with luxury lifestyle and high standards for her potential romantic partners. She is bound by the lottery set forth in her father's will, which gives potential suitors the chance to choose between three caskets composed of gold, silver and lead...Amen!

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  14. Portia seems to have become the reigning queen at your place!

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