We have a visitor....

 

 
 .;

 

The picture says it all really!

 

 

This is Maisie and we're looking after her for two weeks because her owner has gone to the Isle of Man to start work on her new house, preparatory to moving there permanently in March.

 

Maisie's owner, our friend Sue, is funny and clever and delightful. Maisie is not. Maisie is a yowling howling spitting hissing demon in cat form who doesn't want to be here thank you very much. And who especially doesn't want to share the space with three other cats.

 

The other three cats reciprocate. They do not wish to share their home with Maisie.

 

I have some sympathy with Maisie's point of view. She used to share her home with Sue and a big beautiful diabetic male cat called Willyum. Then Finn arrived, a boisterous collie pup. Not long after that Willyum died. And then last year Maisie had a fall and injured herself very badly. She survived, but had to have a leg amputated. So I can see that on top of all that being dumped in a strange house with two people she doesn't know very well and three other cats she doesn't know at all must be stressful.

 

This does little to reconcile me to the fact that 9 times out of 10 when approached she hisses, growls and lashes out with her clawed paw.

 

She goes home on 22nd of the month, so she's about half way through her stay. We're counting the days....