Last time I gave you an update, Oscar had just joined us and was still a young kitten. Now Oscar is 9 months old and pretty much full grown. So here's the stories you have missed:
- Oscar is the strangest cat ever - he has definite cat-itude and likes to get up to all kinds of mischief. This includes following the humans into the garage, and cupboards and regularly getting shut in that space when they haven't noticed. At least every week he is rescued from a space he has snuck into - and he never seems to learn a lesson about it. He also just sits and silently waits to be discovered some time later, usually when we say to each other 'where's Oscar I haven't seen him for awhile'. Why waste important energy meowing?
- At 4 months a certain kitten decided to try life on the streets. His big break happened when a certain doggie dug a kitten-sized escape hole for him to exit our yard and enter our neighbours yard - from there Oscar had a clear exit plan through the iron wrought bars and to freedom! In the meantime we worried like crazy about him and plastered the neighbourhood with missing posters. After 2 nights on the streets he returned one morning as if nothing had ever happened. Since that day the great outdoors hasn't had the same appeal. I think he went 'I've seen the world and it was overrated' and suddenly the giant dog and humans didn't look so bad.
- Meanwhile Ollie has been continuing at dog obedience school and passed Bronze! He is now onto Silver classes. If it was a real school, I think Ollie would be the class clown of his grade.
- David and I have been determined to keep our dog out of my vegie patch and it has proven to be a challenge. Time and time again Ollie has proven that he is smarter than his own good and won the battle. Oscar is partly to blame here since Ollie thinks Oscar's poop is the tastiest treat in the history of the world, and Oscar thinks the garden beds are the best place to go toilet. Ollie's favourite vegies and fruits to dig up are potatoes and strawberries and sadly these are my favourites to eat. Bizarrely I can feed Ollie practically every fruit and veg except the strawberry fruit. He thinks it is awful - but apparently the leaves and roots of the plant are the best thing ever! After months of trying multiple different fence configurations we have finally got him out.
- I get asked quite a bit about how Ollie and Oscar are getting on. Since a picture is worth a 1000 words I'm going to leave you with this answer
