The Cat's in the Bag

We came home from Trader Joe's and she decided that the paper bags were here new play toys.

Be My Valentine Meow?

Minnie the cat and her Valentines Day puppy.. Meow! 

Minnie the Kitty playing with new toy

This music doesn't really match her but it's cute cute cute! She loves this toy!

More Fun With Minnie The Cat

Minnie surprisingly made herself at home when we took her to visit family over the holidays..Here she is lounging around outside the bathroom. 

Minnie will occasionally join in when we use our piano/keyboard. She likes to jump on top of it when we play it. Sometimes if we leave the piano on and leave the room, we will her here walking on the keys. 

Kitty seems to love her human pillow.. hehe

She is never shy when it comes to food. We don't allow her to have any people food...but she is usually very interested in what we are eating and often comes close to our plates. She is always interested in what we are doing when we go to the kitchen. 

She also tried to eat our little Christmas Tree... 

Apparently she sometimes thinks she's a bat 

Minnie The Cat's Story Continued!

Minnie was so cute and little and it was cute when she would sleep on top of the refrigerator. But now she hangs out either in a chair, on the couch or in her little scratch box. 

This is a beautiful pic I got of her hanging out in her box.

Here eyes are really pretty in the light. She is such a cute sweet cat. I'm so glad we found her. She has brought us so much joy and I'm glad she's not out in the cold anymore. 

She wasn't spayed when we got her so we had to take her to the vet and get the surgery done. She wasn't very happy about having the cone collar and not being able to jump too high. 

She loves this furry bean bag I got her. 

Kitty Playing with a Mouse

After a few days we settled on the the name Minnie. Minnie started putting weight on after she had a few steady meals. When we gave her some toys she didn't play with them. But after a few weeks she started playing with us. Here she is playing with a remote control mouse. Unfortunately the mouse runs out of a battery charge very quickly.

Minnie the Cat Came Home With Us

We didn't have a name for her at the time. We were on our way to dinner by the river when we spotted a cute tiny cat on the walkway. A very nice lady was petting her. The cat was young. We assumed she was feral and roaming the area. The nice lady explained to us that the cat had only been there for a week and she had been dumped there as she was behaving as a house cat. We estimated around 6 to 8 months old. We thought it was sad that she had been dumped. Then we went to dinner. When we came outside another nice lady was with her. The kitty came and sat on my shoe. The lady explained that she needed a foster home and that it was very cold outside and the kitty did not have a winter coat. So we made an executive decision to bring her home with us. When we got her home, she wearily came out of the carrier that the nice lady and lent to us. The cat was a bit confused as she didn't know who we were. When I pet her I noticed how skinny and bony she was. We gave her some cat food that we had picked up on the way home. She seemed tired.

I picked her up and put her on the couch. She sat on the couch and went to sleep. It was clear that she was happy to be in a warm cozy place. She was so tired. She needed rest. 

 I was worried about her though. I set up a litter box for her in the bathroom but I wasn't sure if she would use it or not. I slept on the couch because I was worried about her. When I woke up in the night I saw her standing on my kitchen counter. I got up and pulled her down and she jumped on the chair in the living room area and went back to sleep. 

In the morning she used the litter box. Good kitty. But she was a little bit scared of us. I tried to take her back to the couch but she didn't want to sit there. She then jumped way up on the kitchen cabinets. 

She was in a strange new place and wasn't sure about us right away. 

I was a bit worried about her being way up there so I encouraged her to hang out a little closer to the ground

Not that much closer but a little closer. She picked a spot on top of the refrigerator. I thought that was a nice compromise. 

More to come.