Beginning on Sunday (six days from now), and running for about two and a half weeks, Vicki and I will be playing the part of dog owners. Julie's golden retriever, Cooper, along with her ragdoll cat, Finley, will be staying with us while their mistress makes her first ever journey to Africa.
Finley's arrival would be enough to throw our cat, Lucy, off her game (although she eventually adjusted to Charlie, the beautiful Siamese who we looked after for two weeks earlier this month)... but what Cooper's presence in the house is going to do to her, we can't even imagine! We're expecting that she may become an upstairs-dwelling cat for the duration, and so we're planning to have water, food and litter box up there for her use. Cooper's well-trained enough that we'll be able to keep him on the main floor, allowing Lucy to stay away from him if she so chooses. Finley, of course, will no doubt invade her space just as he did the first time he came over for a visit, back in February!
For whatever reason, this Spring has seen us taking in animals for vacationing friends of ours. If nothing else, it's forcing Lucy out of the comfortable and lazy rut she's been in since Rascal left us last year!
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