TBT: Almost always in contact, always together...
If one is out and the other is in, I see signs of mild distress. I was in the basement and Lori came to the door so I let her in of course, A minute later, Laz was calling at me to let him in. I have never experienced Laz calling so urgently. I let him in too of course.
He seemed so urgent to get in that I thought there was a predator or an intruder cat in the yard, so I went looking all around. I didn't find one. But I went back inside to find them curled up together. He wanted to be near her that much!
Someday, many years from now (I hope), one of them will cross The Bridge before the other. And the other will be bereft and lose the desire to remain here with me. That will be a sad, but not unexpected day.
I saw it with Skeeter and LC. When Skeeter left, LC was never quite the same. She eventually came up on my lap, but she had a hole in her own heart I could not quite heal and left us the next year.
I love them all of course, but there are some cat-relations different than most sometimes. Ayla is focussed on me. Marley is focussed on me. Lori wants a lot of my attention. She really likes me. She gets under the covers and purrs against me at dawn.
But Laz is foccused on Lori and she to him most of the daytime. I mean, he likes my attention and he talks to me a lot, but he and Lori are a pair like I've never seen.
I often regretted accepting "Troubled Laz" many times when he attacked Ayla the first year, and there were endless hours of just sitting and talking to him the first months. He did respond to that and calmed down a lot, but it took Lori to change his whole world.
I got Lori for my own reasons. Iza was a Tonkie utterly and completely dedicated to me (and fur like a mink), and left too soon at 12. So I wanted another. It took over a year, but I got Tonkie Lori.
I love all The Mews as favorites in their own ways, but it was the best day in Laz's life when Lori arrived. I will never truly understand what happened in his cat-brain, but the effect was both immediate and amazing. He changed overnight from half-sane to 90% sane. I'm still working on the last 10%, but he is a cat and maybe 90% is all he has.
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LORI: BTW, before we forget, we got several comments from yesserdays post that we look "well-fed". Indeed we are! TBT read once that cats need about 4-6 mousies a day, so we get 4-6 meals a day about a mousie-size. On a "6" day, there is breakfast, first and second lunch, first and second dinner, and then "going to bed" meal. On a "4" day, it only means he opened the bigger cans and we ate more at each.
He says "pleasing plump" is correct for we mostly indoor cats. And he weighs us each week to make sure we are getting enough stinky goodness and kibble. Marley varies between 16.5 and 17.5, Ayla has been catsolutely steady at 6.6 for all her post-spay life. Laz is steady at 8.6-8.8, and (I) Lori have reached 8.0 recently. Laz and I want to get to 10.0 like Iza was, but he says Laz and I am much more active, so it may be years before we get there.