(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . The Duke now Owns Us both. [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-26 Well, now it 6 months later, and he sits in discontent on the bed as it sucks as a cat day outside Feb 26th. Everything is wet and cold, Damn Cold, and he isn’t ready for it nor having any of it if he don’t need to. He wasn’t ready last year either but luckily it wasn’t this cold. I fear I would have lost him otherwise. So now he his regularly sleeping on my side of the bed, T-boned up against the legs for a the first part. He like to remind me at 2:00 AM, that he wants to go outside at 4:00 Am, by grooming me like I am another cat from 2am to 4 am if I let him. I heard cats grooming bald heads is good for growing hair back, unless your a Rex. I am just a common tabby, so what the hell, I will swear for now that I am seeing results in just 60 days. Most of the rest of the hair is going... At least it will be even looking. 🤣🤣 In the meantime, It appears I was sent another replacement for the outside seat with Zeena* from Next door. She wants to come in and be friends with Fiona, you know how those girls get together and compare who has the bigger kibble. :) I suspect the cat is tossed outside on the weekend cause she shows up in the morning, trying to walk in the front door when it is open. But The Duke of Dun officially owns me now, I took him to the Vet, got the vaxx’s, had the blood panels done and he doesn’t currently have Feline Leukemia, so he is healthy kitty and now has a chip, so that if someone with a reader finds him, they will know he owns and call me. Oh, and now, I have Four more cats under the Queen and Duke rules, three at moms, one here, I have a hole squad of little Bast-warriors. More on that in minute. The Duke will be returning the regular time outs on warm sunny days upcoming. But for now, Rank has it’s privileges and downfalls. He is sucking it up buttercup on the main bed, not that he was active in the day time in the old days, he would take a walk at 6 PM but those turned into “Daddy I’m soaking wet, don’t pet me damn it, it works the water into the fur” so not as much fun as they used to be. But the Duke is finally ‘re-homed’ and this will be his fur-ever home. It took a little over a year, with wins in July and Halloween to New Years. This morning I opened the side Garage Door at 5:15 Am put out two plates of kibble, one in the garage for him, one in the patio for her. He snarfed up the kibble, went outside… and came back in that fast. There was this look of “Fix this peasant” and back inside he went, on his own accord. This afternoon he was he informed that the Queen is also entitled to ½ of the bed. That will be another day. *Zeena also has an apt Zeena in her Apt for let, needs heat, fully furnished with occasion board. to let at our front door, and if it were to get too savage with the weather we let her park it in the garage, where it is covered, dry and she can used the Duke of Duns royal bed out by the dryer. The royal bed consists of (1) Bathroom memory foam mat, topped with (1) simple silk and down comforter folded 4 ways, and an electric pet heater pad sitting on a jelly pad that absorbs and radiates heat back. So an 18” by 34” pad is warmed to 45 deg for the cat to sleep on. The Front apt is unheated so far, I will work on that, we have outlets on the front porch. Maybe a heated pat in the box. As for the other three, they are Molly, Big Baby and “Orange boy” at mom place. All of them now see me as the bringer of food, except for orange boy, he just gets pets and a kind word. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/26/2155160/-The-Duke-now-Owns-Us-both Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/