Happily Ever After
Life in The Rural Retreat with a beautiful wife, three cats, garden wildlife, a camera, a computer – and increasing amounts about running
Earlier posts can be found on Adventures of a Lone Bass Player, where this blog began life. Recent entries can be found here.
An Independent Lady
by admin - 22:27 on 27 April 2013
We thought the day would never come, but all we needed was an unexpected tractor. Maia has finally learned how to use the cat-flap.
Felines and attendants were all in the garden this afternoon, chasing sticks and climbing trees. (The moggies, that is.) Maia, the first to grow bored, wandered over to the door where she scratched and yowled until, realising the door staff were all on the wrong side, she gave the cat-flap her usual half-hearted swipes then gave up when it didn't open.
Then a tractor thundered past the bottom of the garden and suddenly the scaredy cat was through the flap and safe indoors. Since then she's found her way in and out, without human assistance, on several occasions. Let's hope she can still remember how to do it tomorrow.
It's fortunate that she didn't encounter Mystery Moggy whilst making one of her solo outdoor expeditions or her hard-won confidence could have disappeared in an instant. Pandora wasn't so lucky. The scourge of small, defenceless creatures entered The Rural Retreat at high speed after her path crossed that of the much bigger wanderer, leaving her so traumatised she had to do her business in a litter tray. She'll be fine by tomorrow.
The list of visitors to the garden feeders grew again this morning when a male blackcap was spotted tucking into the contents of a coconut shell. He returned later in the day so with luck we'll have another regular, and maybe a mate too. Time will tell.
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