The doctor team found a uti and adjusted the antibiotics he was on from his last visit, and he has been his normal self since waking up Monday (yesterday evening for me when I was notified). He should get to go home soon!
Japp has been uncaged all the time for a couple of days and is enjoying spending more time in his favorite spot next to a radiator under the sewing table by the west window. He seems normal and pretty active, although he still naps most of the time (as he should since he's 102 years old). We're thinking we should try to provide a bit more enrichment and interact with him more often, although he doesn't really want human interaction very much 😂. His reaction to being approached is frequently to thump and go hide, even though most of the time we talk to him it's just to give him treats! So his personality is unchanged. 😂 We do think he might be somewhat senile now. He shows some signs of forgetting what he was doing in the middle or getting confused about which way to go in his familiar space (Rowan was doing this too in the last couple years). But he always finds his way again, so far.
With cat divorce and Wax now leaving the house this means that one cat is alone the whole time she's gone. The cats like to nap almost the whole day, but they both also wake up a couple of times a day. When Wax was upstairs working Tristana often chose to ignore her in favor of sleeping in bed alone, but now she's started yowling her little complaints every day. Sipuli naps a bit more than her in the morning but is fully capable of waking up and complaining any time I'm out in the other part of the house.
Japp has been uncaged all the time for a couple of days and is enjoying spending more time in his favorite spot next to a radiator under the sewing table by the west window. He seems normal and pretty active, although he still naps most of the time (as he should since he's 102 years old). We're thinking we should try to provide a bit more enrichment and interact with him more often, although he doesn't really want human interaction very much 😂. His reaction to being approached is frequently to thump and go hide, even though most of the time we talk to him it's just to give him treats! So his personality is unchanged. 😂 We do think he might be somewhat senile now. He shows some signs of forgetting what he was doing in the middle or getting confused about which way to go in his familiar space (Rowan was doing this too in the last couple years). But he always finds his way again, so far.
With cat divorce and Wax now leaving the house this means that one cat is alone the whole time she's gone. The cats like to nap almost the whole day, but they both also wake up a couple of times a day. When Wax was upstairs working Tristana often chose to ignore her in favor of sleeping in bed alone, but now she's started yowling her little complaints every day. Sipuli naps a bit more than her in the morning but is fully capable of waking up and complaining any time I'm out in the other part of the house.
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Date: 3 Mar 2026 02:25 pm (UTC)(Bodies are so strange)
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Date: 3 Mar 2026 10:49 pm (UTC)Is there a way to have both cats on the same level as you with separate areas so they're both aware of your presence and you can check in on them easier, or are they too used to their respective cat divorce locales that it would be too odd for them?
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Date: 4 Mar 2026 11:35 am (UTC)They're both very social and they both want kitty friends to play and nap with (it's just tragic for a Cornish Rex used to the family cuddle pile to have to nap and play alone!), and without them they both want to cling to us instead, but they're not smart enough to figure out how to make friends with each other (Tristana being autistic or something and not acting according to normal cat social signals and instincts).
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Date: 8 Mar 2026 08:37 pm (UTC)Feliz também que seu coelhinho Japp está passando relativamente bem depois da partida de Rowan. Mas é bem engraçado que ele seja tão antissocial, um belo rabugento fofo (sem ofensas)
E como assim divórcio dos gatos? Me perdi fiquei um tempo fora e não estou sabendo dessa
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Date: 10 Mar 2026 10:59 am (UTC)Unfortunately our cats can't be in the same place. We got Sipuli to keep Tristana company but Tristana is mentally very unusual, maybe autistic (born too small, had to be hand fed) and doesn't understand normal cat social behavior, and Sipuli is very sweet and friendly but she can't seem to figure out how to communicate. Tristana is also traumatized from our previous attempt to adopt a new cat to play with her, who just decided he wanted to attack her and never got over it, until eventually we had to send him to a new home 😔❤️🩹. But Tristana was very afraid of him and we think she got extremely wary of meeting new cats as a result. She still refuses to come greet Sipuli and sniff noses or hang out near her. And Sipuli seems to have just concluded that Tristana is some kind of an alien. So we have to keep the doors closed between them all the time, and they will both cry when left alone too long, so Wax and I have to sleep and spend most of our time in separate rooms. Now that she is working out of the house, I am alone with both cats in the daytime, and if they both wake up I have to choose which one to comfort while the other one is yelling about it. 😔
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