Window to my Digital Soul

This silly looking picture is our cat Lily laying next to me on the bed. She loves to push her back right up against me and stretch out. She is the silliest cat I know. We rescued her from one of those cat shelters at Petco. She had been in several other homes before ours. She was very friendly with people, but did NOT like our dog, Kelsey, who is a 90 lb black lab. AT first she hid away in the basement. She would not come out for anything. She then started to come up after a few weeks, but was peeing on everything…carpets, beds, clothing left on the floor, living room couch and we had just about had it. I did some research online because we really didn’t want to get rid of her, but I could not have her peeing all over my house. So we put aluminum foil on the living room furniture (cats hate the feel of it), put a 2nd kitty litter upstairs and started leaving water out in several places for her. She no longer pees on the living room furniture. Every once in a while she still pees on the rug in the main level powder room. I guess she doesn’t like my shade of pea green decor. She now will even get within about 3 feet of the dog. She can exist in the same room as the dog, but prefers the dog be elsewhere. She is a real sweetheart with the loudest purr.

I found out through my research that cats tend to pee on things when they are stressed. Often the stress is caused by another animal (Kelsey), not liking location or type of kitty litter or just the transition to a new home. Once I changed all 3 things we saw a decrease in the number of times she was peeing. I was really glad I didn’t send her away and gave her a chance because now she is part of the family and I miss her when she doesn’t jump on the bed at night to purr loudly next to me. And if Sami forgets to fill her kitty food, she lets me know. She wakes me up and then leads me downstairs and she does NOT give up until I’ve fed her. I told Sami I was going to put Lily in her room when she does that next time so Lily can wake Sami up to feed her.