Swamped by Cats

Today I am swamped by cats.

So what's new about that? you ask. There are plenty of felines around the house - you've read about them lots times. There's Sid A Cat of Superior Breeding, there's Flora the Floozie (aka Princess Flora Flooziebelle) and there's Dylan - Dylan the Villain or Dyl the Vyl so beloved of Biddy.

But today I have more cats around the place - twice as many to be exact. Three more of them. That makes six cats in total, cluttering up the house.

You see, today is the day that the Offspring and his Lovely Partner move house. They're busy doing that right now. Packing up the van and emptying one place, ready to move to the new house and offload everything again. And the cats are going with them - eventually. But as they get under everyone's feet, and panic and try to run away, they have come to stay here today.

So the fur affectionately known as the Grandkits are cluttering up the place as well.

We have Meg (above) and her daughter Mozzie. --->

(Mozzie was orignally thought the be a little tom, so 'he' was named after Morrissey - but since it became clear that she was not a Mozz she's become Mozzie). Both the M&Ms are rescued cats who had been abandoned by the side of a road. And then there's Stumpy. Stumpy is a Rag Doll cat who was adopted when his previous owner couldn't keep him any longer because she was affected by his long fur. He's called Stumpy because he might have the long fur but he doesn't have the right length of tail.

So one set of cats are in the dining room (where Stumpy has made himself so much at home that he's lying on the dining table) and the other three (mine) are wandering the house, well aware of the fact that there's something strange going on but not sure what.

Sid, being the Ladies Man that he is, is lying outside the dining room door, flirting with Meg through the wood. And Flora wants to go in and play.

And other animal news - no one has yet moved into the second Hedgehog House, but I suspect that it won't be too long as Little Heck will probably want his own nest instead of being with the bigger Hecks - specially if they have more babies.

He has progressed from being just a small, nervous figure in the distance to being so intent on chomping his way through as much discarded cat meat as he can manage that he didn't mind at all if I came and took his close-up