Some Changes

So it's been awhile since I have blogged - it's a combination of changing things in our new home, adding to our fur family and the sheer amount of time wedding planning takes.

I'll start with the new fur family addition:

Oscar at 6 weeks old - his first day at home

We got a rescue kitten! He was found at a university campus at 3 weeks of age and his mum had died. Despite being allergic to cats, his rescuer took him home and the family feed him through the night to keep him alive. At 6 weeks he was more prepared to go to his forever home and when we heard about him through the grapevine we decided to adopt him.

He got his name from Oscar Wilde - because he was wild! Also we have a literary theme going on - Ollie got his name from Oliver Twist because Springers love their food.

He is now 5 months old and full of life. Nothing scares this cat and he has already gone missing for a few days only to turn up later oblivious to all the fuss he caused. While Ollie was scared of, and actually ran from the vacuum when he was older and much bigger; Oscar started it down, hissed and held his ground - all at the age of 7 weeks and while the size of my hand!

Oscar during a growth spurt

After a short time, Ollie and Oscar have become good friends. They sleep together and play together. Ollie is generally very good at being gentle and Oscar sure knows how to tease the dog!

Waiting for breakfast

Biting Game - Oscar's favourite. It usually results in Oscar stretching out Ollie's jowls.

Oscar has grown considerably in the last little while and now looks like this (but it could change in a week):

They did require a lot of supervision at first - Ollie wanted to play the chasing game relentlessly and Oscar would be trying to say that's enough but Ollie didn't pick up on it. We had to intervene and rescue Oscar from corners. Then one day while we were out Ollie freed Oscar from his spacious compound we had set up with child gates. Oscar walked straight through the child gate bars and I don't know what happened after that (probably wouldn't want to know) but that day they sorted out their differences. I haven't had to intervene anywhere near as much since.

Oscar emerged as the manipulator of the two within a very short space of time. He worked out when he was still very small that dog door leads to an outdoor world. Problem was he was too little to open the dog door on his own so he began manipulating Ollie into assisting. He would stand at the dog door until Ollie came to investigate and in the process Ollie would open the dog door by shoving Oscar through.