Oscar seems to be forming a new habit. Rather than sleeping on me every time he stops moving, he’s started to sleep near me. Sometimes he’ll gently place a paw in my hair, sometimes he’ll flop next to my leg, and sometimes he’ll whap me in the back of the head with his tiny fuzzy…

Oscar has been getting more active as he acclimates and feels better, so I don’t get as many snugs as I did his first week with us. He has turned up the quality, though. In addition to sleeping across my neck and using my face as a pillow last night, he hopped into my lap…

We had a busy day today. Stan has been under the weather, so he got a visit with the nice folks at our veterinary clinic. While the diagnosis was favorable, we’ve all been a bit stressed about his illness, so we’re all extra tired. Oscar showed this fatigue with his usual panache, as seen below.…

Oscar has conquered most of the house, but he made a new discovery today. Behold, the lampshade! That lamp was in the floor not once, but twice. We have some work to do convincing him to leave it be, but I think we’re getting there. In the meantime, I just hope he doesn’t start eyeing…

Oscar has increased his rampage quotient today, so we’re putting up a few pictures from yesterday while he was resting between sessions. Since we’ve had him, he’s been a strange amalgamation of all our cats. He has Wolfie’s colors, Shadow’s tuxedo pattern, and Morticia’s size while being affectionate and fangwipey like Tai. He has Stan’s…

Nobody likes Friday meetings unless food is involved. We had two this morning, and food was not involved, so our opinion was this. But then we got to have lunch with Brian, and Friday is noodle day, so our opinion changed to this. I’d say it’s been a good day.