When I first adopted Tobey, the guy at the animal rescue told me there were a few "things" I needed to know before making my decision.
The most important was that Tobey was never going to be a 'lovey' cat. He didn't like to be held, he tolerated being pet, and well...he was stand offish.
Well, I am here to say yup, all that is true and he forgot to mention one other thing - he bites.
But I was sure (read: stubborn) that my winning personality would eventually win this little guy over. Which brings us to today. I was sitting on the couch absently watching T.V. and petting Tobey at the same time when he bit my hand. We'd been working on this, so I bopped him on the nose and sternly told him "no biting" and then, as he was giving me the stink eye (it was a good bop), I picked him up as I normally do to show him I still love him.
Well, imagine my surprise when he didn't immediately wriggle out of my arms but instead stretched out and, even more surprising, promptly fell. asleep. Asleep!
Which I let him enjoy until my back reminded me that the position I was in was not conducive to comfort so I moved a bit which caused Tobey to jump up and resume his previous stink eye.
He hasn't come anywhere near me since but he was so kind as to let me snap this picture.
You can tell just by looking at him how much he loves me.
1 comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2mbeSAmUP4
truly, not a lovey cat.
good on you for taking on Tobey. It's so easy to adopt a cuddly kitten; there's not many people who want to take home the difficult ones.
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