What’s up kitty cat?

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Olive is feeling better. I keep finding her up on top of things.

I had a few stress-filled weeks when we came home from vacation. Olive the cat was not her usual perky self. I wrote about it HERE.

For about two weeks, I monitored Olive. She’d have a good day followed by several bad ones. On her bad days, I wouldn’t see her. If I did see her for a few brief moments, she looked really scruffy and miserable.

One of my neighbors asked me how old she was, When I said 11, the neighbor suggested maybe it was time. You know what? I pushed back on that. I took Olive to the vet. I waited, watched and eventually Olive no longer hid under the bed all day. She started eating like a champ. Her other bodily functions became normal. Definitely it was NOT “time.”

Our last cat, Sherman, was 17 years old when he was attacked by a neighbor’s dog. No, he didn’t make it. Olive is an indoor cat and I expect her to have a long life.

Now, she’s leaping to the top of the closet. The shelf she’s on is six feet high! Yesterday she was up on the closet space a few feet higher than that!

I walked into the casita to see this! She’s never been a counter shopper before.

FYI, the photos on this post are taken with my iphone, not my DSLR camera.

I’m getting ready for guests this coming weekend. The Wickham Casita has been a popular place this past month. Our last guest is a world champion spear fisherman. He’s entering a competition at Lake Pleasant, which is about 30 minutes from us. He’s planning on scouting the lake several times before the event. He brought us black cod, salmon, rock fish and lobster during his last visit. I wrote about Black Cod also known as Sablefish HERE.

We enjoyed lobster over the weekend. Our houseguest free dives off the coast in Southern California for lobster.

What a treat! I had to share the lobster photos.

Lobster poached in lemon butter with steamed broccoli. Yum! Yes, our last guest is welcome to our casita anytime.

What is your most favorite food and why?

If you’ve had dogs or cats, do you get stressed if they aren’t feeling well?

44 thoughts on “What’s up kitty cat?”

  1. Glad Olive is feeling better and training further the Olympic high jump. Me? I’m an absolute basket case when our pets are ill. And we had a cat who lived to almost 30 so poo on your neighbor.
    😉

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  3. I’m glad Olive is back to normal. It seems clear that her behavior is stress related as she just can’t handle her people being gone, although it also gets harder for her as she ages. Much like a human trying to adjust to change I think. The food question made me pause and ponder. I don’t think I have a favorite food anymore actually. My diet has changed a lot over the years and my old favorites really aren’t a part of what I eat now.

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    • Poor Olive. Yes she really takes it hard when we are gone. It’s going to make our vacations stressful or shorter. My favorite food I no longer get because of where I live. Dungeness crab.

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  6. Woohoo @ Olive being back in form. That must be such a relief.

    As for food, I appreciate what Sandra Boynton said “The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” 😀

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  9. SO pleased to hear Olive is better. It’s nerve racking when cats won’t eat, even though it’s a common reaction when they get stressed. With one of my previous cats, I’d try and tempt her with wet food, chicken, etc. Nowadays they have churru, but Boss Cat is such a good eater (i.e., relentless food thief) that I don’t often resort to it.

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    • Thank you! Our cat sitter used churru in the past and this time it wasn’t working. Olive didn’t eat, drink, pee or poop for four days after I got home. I took her to the vet and they filled her with fluids which helped for a little bit. But it took her several weeks to be normal again. We got back mid-September. She’s finally feeling like a spry, happy member of the family.

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