The One where TC moved to Scotland and joined the Excellent Cats

[TheShellBeach]

Failte gu Alba!

He had the softest fur and the loveliest purr (chirred like a guinea pig), and loved a belly rub
Awful squeaky meow though!

Pud looks like a darling

I went out to the afternoon tea club, feeling rather gloomy, because Linney was hiding again.

But when I told my friend about the cats, she told me not to worry. Rome wasn't built in a day.

When I came home, Linney was approaching Gizmo's basket again. Gizmo was asleep. Linney is getting braver.

I reckon Gizmo could win an award for sleeping.
🤣

It does take time to 'bed in' new cats. Based on what you've said I think it sounds to be going very well, since they are tolerating each other, not getting grumpy.
I suspect Gizmo will wake up when he has a chance to go outside.

So how are you and Mr SB getting on with him? Have you been savaged yet?

TC and Linney sound like it’s going brilliantly really.
Boone still smacks Eko and won’t let him near him and it’s been 4 years!

Lenny smacks everyone, particularly when eating, but the others largely ignore him.
Sybil used to smack Monty regularly - I thought that was really rude of her, abusing her elders.

So how are you and Mr SB getting on with him? Have you been savaged yet?

Not at all. Gizzi is very friendly with both of us.

Just that one hiss on his first night, when he was removed from the store cupboard.

He comes and sits on the sofa between us in the evenings. Or just sits next to me.

We were sitting at the table, putting medication into a dosette box, and he came and looked up at me expectantly.

He must've thought there were Dreamies being offered.
🤣

what a sweetheart
Hopefully this will make tc's dad feel a little better

Hiding behind the telly when Mr SB does the hoovering.

He stays there for ten minutes, then goes back to his bed.

For reasons unknown Sybil is winking at me.

(The other hairy object in the picture is Mrs G's head 🤣)

My H has that exact same expression when I get the hoover out too, only H is terrified that I will ask him to use it 😂

It's lovely to see TC so relaxed. (I've always translated TC as Top Cat so he will continue to be TC to me, sorry).

TC is scared of the hoover? Come on, after years of presenting him as a ferocious man-mawling beast, it turns out all Grumpy needed was a hoover? Or so you have a Shark?

Maybe Grumpy and NDN did not find out.

My elderly baby is getting a steroid injection tomorrow as he is refusing to have prednisolone broken up and mixed with water injected into his mouth daily. What a surprise 🤣 must taste horrible! I don’t blame him one bit
I used to add Pud's meds, ground up, to a little Lik-e-lix, which helped, but eventually put him off eating them for pleasure! Hope your old baby is okay 😻

It's the only thing that has fazed him so far.

Yes, it's a Shark.

Now you know, Grumpy!
🤣

Actually, I've just remembered that Gizmo hissed at Suzy, but she just glared at him, and he backed off.

Maybe he saw her fangs

............... or he'd looked through my phone and saw her other pictures

suzy the vampire

Part of me is pleased that TC has calmed and is apparently more zen (maybe it's the calming air in Argyll?), but an evil part of me wants him to continue to be the crazed psycho cat we all know and love.

I'm rather disappointed in him 🤣

Ahh I think I love Vampire Suzy. She’s so fabulous.

Argh, Boone’s problem is that he likes the cheapest food possible. Always has. Which has been very fortunate in some ways. Except that Lick-e-lix is too posh for him. He much preferred the Tesco no name brand lick-e-lix. As in he’d lick the plate clean. Then they stopped making it. So I went to waitrose. And then they stopped too 😞

Mr SB has just said that the "good Scottish air" has calmed Gizzi down.

That, and being menaced by Mr SB while he does the housework.

I just spend my time going to lunch and afternoon tea clubs

............but an evil part of me wants him to continue to be the crazed psycho cat we all know and love

I'm waiting to see how the dynamic plays out when he joins the other three in the garden, and around the neighbours' gardens and the enclosed green space outside our houses.

Suzy has claimed the top of the bin as her seat. Picard prefers the windowsill.
And Linney likes the garden seat, and Mr SB's garden storage container.

@TheShellBeach are any of your neighbours on MN. It's them that will reveal the truth 🙀.