Today is Floki’s tenth birthday. It may not be his actual birthday, but it is the day I came up with years ago when guessing his age and subtracting.
It is hard to believe our little kitten is already ten years old. Here he is before we adopted him.
Chris was very curious about him the day he arrived, but I recall Frankie not being so thrilled.
They soon became best buddies.
Before we knew it, he was a year old and his dark color was starting to emerge.
The bond he formed with Chris as a kitten was still there as an adult. Finally, Chris had a cat that would come to him for attention rather than the other way around. Puck did that sometimes but not like Floki.
With Chris gone, Frankie needed to fill the void.
Our hope is that Floki and Frankie will be around for many more birthdays.
My wife’s sister, Felice, sent her a photo of a stray cat they have been taking care of. She is a female they have been calling Koki. Felice didn’t notice the arrow on her head until after she took the photo.
The original photo was a bit blurry, so I asked AI to clean it up a little.
The other day, as Frankie and I were walking, we encountered a group of vultures attempting to remove roadkill from our streets. Frankie was very interested in them and pursued them more like a reporter trying to get an interview than a cat trying to catch dinner.
Last month, my wife found an ad for a water fountain that she wanted to buy. She read to me all the great benefits of the miracle device. When she finished, I thought two things:
Since this information was from an advertisement, it must be true.
How is this product different from the other three water fountains we bought and our cats didn’t like?
I said the second one out loud, which didn’t go over well. She was determined to buy it so I told her I would look for it on Amazon. I very much would prefer to support a small business over Amazon, but, on the other hand, I worry about giving unknown businesses my debit card number.
The fountain in question is called FEELNEEDY Stainless Steel Automatic Pet Water Dispenser. The all caps are theirs. The link above is an affiliate link because, why not, but I don’t recommend it unless you know your cat is into water fountains.
It uses a battery and only runs when your cat is nearby, unless it is plugged into power and you choose the continuous run option. Frankie drank from it shortly after I put it down, The paper towel is because I spilled it when I set it down.
Since I replaced their water bowl with this fountain on March 20, more than two weeks ago, I’ve seen Frankie drink out of it four times, including once this morning. I’m not sure I should count this morning because the battery was dead and no water was flowing. During that time, I have seen Frankie drink from the water bowl in our bedroom almost every day.
Floki, on the other hand, has never drunk from the fountain, at least not that I have seen. That might not be the fault of the fountain since I haven’t seen him drink from the bedroom bowl, either.
For now, I will keep the fountain and see how it goes. What do you think? Do your pets have a fountain?
This post was from November of 2016, and nothing has changed with Frankie except we go for a walk everyday now. I still have to pick him up and turn him around when we get too far from home.
I caught Frankie and Floki napping on the catio yesterday afternoon. Frankie was enjoying the sunbeam while Floki was only getting partial sun under the table.
Bad Cat Chris 