I seem to be picking Newboy up tonight......

[cozietoesie]

Currently in the middle of making arrangements to meet - he's a breed rescue - and yet to check over the house for 'breakability' issues etc. (He's only young - and it's a good few years since I had a cat that could potentially leap living with me.)

Yikes!!

Newboy will sleep in the bed, it's early days yet.

The peeing was naughty, but I bet he was pleased that, having tested you, you didn't terrify him or anything with the 'boundary-setting'.

I spend my life switching on radiators, tucking Ollie up in personalised blankets, offering the duvet. Where does he sleep? Leaning against an ice cold outside wall

He was dashedly clever about it though - or so he thought. He went to his trays but then became......careless. I'm wise to that one, though.

Don't offer something he hasn't asked for then . If it gets a bit nippy he can always snuggle up to the perfectly friendly, food providing monster!
Cats don't generally put their nose out to spite their face, they are nature's pragmatists!

You've provided him with a lovely living hot water bottle that doesn't even get cold during the night if he feels chilly, not your fault if he doesn't use it

Of course it will be my fault!

No it won't ( checking furtively over my shoulder for hulking, black blob with radar ears). It's not really frostbite conditions in Scotland at the moment. He will live. Don't provide him with an exclusive location for an all inclusive holiday that gives him the option to indulge in Greta Garboesque histrionics.
If he doesn't get he's act together in the near future, you may have to resort to grabbing and love bombing. Obviously let go if you are in danger of being sliced by razor sharp claws

'in the near future'?? I'm already thinking about how I get him to the vet for his next booster! (August 2018.)

August 1018? Don't be so pessimistic! He'll be fine by then

The next painful jab is likely to be in you, not in the little prince. As for the vet visit, you can always get him sedated, as I know.

It really is early days still and he is obv a bit thrown having been thoroughly freaked by Badhome. Now he is at Besthome and he must be slowly realising that. And he's not nuts, he's just all over the place so he will realise it.

The tray thing is v annoying. Mind you Mr C scuttles out for a really relaxing massive pee the moment anything new arrives on the balcony.Tail shuddering, eyes closed in bliss, SW4 flooded. Instant plant death.

Except, funnily enough, the rosemary. Tip: skip the crusted lamb if you ever visit.

As for the bed thing, I would enjoy the peace while you can. Newboy may be a youthful sleeper ie fidgety. Plus he will try it on for midnight meals, 3am snack, etc, not to mention the classic snatch 'n' spin divet trick.

2018 - obviously would be competing for seniorboy's crown if he was born in 1018!

I've had to give up on the midnight snacks. He knows the timing too well now. (He's just had the lightly warmed soup and is building up for the midnight roast chicken. )

He's taking the piss!!!

It just developed that way.

And you mocked my personalised blanket?
Ollie just had wafer thin chicken because he did a cute face at me

To be fair, he's been sitting on the hall rug just watching me.

God alive, I'm glad Mr C can't read.

Well he definitely doesn't have one of those!

I think the picture is becoming clearer. He's gone into a bad mood again. He seems to have been prepared to play nice while there was still FOOD on the horizon but now that it's over for the day.......

Funny, that. :)

He's not in that bad a frame of mind if he can switch it on and off. The surveillance and monitoring activity is vvv good.

Mr C s sitting in the Amazon box in case I defy his orders and bin it.

I've just had delivered and Amazon-purchased scratching lounger thing - sort of corrugated cardboard in a shallow shape with lifted curved ends (and catnip stuff to put down the corrugations.) I laid it down, turned round to do his tray, turned back (literally, back after 10 seconds) and he was sitting on it. In the open room. There have now been wild sounds of scratching and general depredation. A true and immediate success it seems.

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Oh Ollie loves his! Pets at home do one that has a ball in

To tell the truth, I'm not entirely sure whether it 's the scratching thing or the catnip. (He just wandered in here in a very glaikit sort of way.) Still, if it gets him scratching it...........

Is that his first time with catnip? It always puts my two in a good mood.