Peachy and Gremlin /5

Time for a cat appreciation post.  We went through some scary times with Gremlin.  Some underlining and ongoing issues amped up.  He started marking inside our home, being super anxious, severe urinary issues, and very territorial.  The real alarm bell was when Peachy started to display stress signals (overgrooming!) and we knew we needed to get serious.  After trying lots of non-medication ideas (feliway, zylkene, dog-free house zones) he now takes a daily clomav (half a tablet) and golly gosh it's made a remarkable difference.  All his anxious behaviours have stopped and we have a much happier and calm household :) We did also have to take peachy to the vet on Monday (she was having an upset stomach) but the vet wasn't alarmed and she seems to be getting better *fingers crossed*

Okay, time for photos of sleeping cats or cats getting ready to sleep :P

Love these little panthers!

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Peachy and Gremlin /4

Time to do a Peachy and Gremlin round-up. 
Unsurprisingly most of the photos are of them asleep on our bed :P Cute nonetheless though!

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Not My Cat /Peaches

I will admit I was slightly shocked/puzzled when a random cat walked into my bedroom, an expression quickly over written by 'oh my goodness there's a random cat in my house' excitement! Turns out she's the neighbours cat and we (Peaches and I) ended up spending a nice afternoon together. Big shout out to Gremlin who isn't the most social cat in the World for (semi) tolerating someone else using his cat scratcher, eating from his bowl and stealing my prime lap spot + desk space.

Peaches has since made a return visit much to my pleasure and Gremlin's disgust
I'm still hopeful one day they'll be friends :)

Any tips?

Note: I did try playing with them both separately, separating the bowls, giving both of them mad love.  Peaches is cool with Gremlin, it's just Ben and I are bad pet owners and never socialised our dude so he is mighty fearful/jealous of other animals.  I do have hopes of getting another cat in the future (dream!) so I hope there's hope. From what I read (plus watching too much Jackson Galaxy) is you need to do the introduction slowly and in a neutral location - I told Ben I seriously think we need to let Gremlin pick the next cat :P

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Tyler - Part 2

The rest of the Tyler photos :)

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