Today we are celebrating the fifth birthday of Alfie, the fluffiest boy in town!
What a kitty he is! He truly is one of the most unusual cats that have ever been in our family - unusual in the best way possible, that is! He is always happy - this boy even loves going to see the vet! I think he likes it because he goes someplace where everyone talks to him and gives him 100 percent of their attention. 😊
Over the past few weeks, he has snooper-vised the cleaning up of the garden and planting of flowers in pots, to be sure that it's all to his liking. Because he is nothing if not a Nature Boy.
"Time to take a rest now that things are the way I like them. That was a lot of work!"
He's never met someone he didn't like - he was the only one of the cats who tried really hard to be friends with Angus. (Which of course ended poorly. 😢) One of his favorite things is to have a worker come to the house to fix, repair, check, build, whatever. He is beside himself with happiness that someone is here in the house that he hasn't met before, doing interesting things that they surely would like him to assist with. We have been lucky that any people coming to the house have been cat lovers, and gotten a real charge out of him. Then he cries for about half an hour after they leave! (The Tim: "So ... he wants us to pay people to just hang out with him longer??")
Whenever we've been out in the garden, Milo the Koodle and Esme are always at the door, watching and looking curious - but God forbid they also come outside! But it always cracks me up when we come back into the house, Milo is right there, and licks Alfie's forehead for a few minutes, I guess to return him to the smell of the house - it's really funny!
I just took this photo of Esme and Alfie on the bed in the guest room. That's a favorite spot, because it's a small room with two windows. And right outside of those windows are trees with birds and squirrels. Once I open the windows, it's not unusual to look in the room and see all three cats distributed in various permutations sitting in the window.
He also considers himself to be quite fierce, and as a three-legged cat with no front claws, I'm sure you can imagine how dangerous he actually can be.
His favorite person is The Tim. When he is in a room where The Tim is, he sits on the floor right in front of him like a guard cat. And he is such a big boy, that when he wants to actually cuddle with you, there's not a lot of choice left on your part, LOL.
So later all of the kitties will get some special food for their dinners, and then we will have a little birthday party for Alfie with a two-person mousse cake from a little pastry shop nearby, topped with a candle. We will sing "Happy Birthday," the kitties will get treats, and Alfie will get a gift (I found a little catnip fish like we gave Esme but with a different fabric - all of the cats LOVED it!). So he is going to be very pleased to be the center of attention, even if no one comes to fix something today ...
So I hope you can find something to celebrate today - and if not, feel free to celebrate Alfie's birthday. That's what we'll be doing. ❤
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