Everyone’s been asking me how Patches is doing and I suppose it’s time for an update.

Patches fits in all too well around here. She’s quickly picking up some of Cinders’ bad habits (figures) but she’s still stinkin’ cute! She’s growing so fast and I can’t believe how much she’s eating.

Patches has picked up on Cinders’ wet food feeding time. So now when Cinders gets his can of wet food, she thinks it’s time for her to get one too. So now I am feeding both cats a can of wet food at 5pm (kitten patte for Patches and regular for Cinders). But I don’t do it fast enough for Miss Patches… oh no. She can now jump up to where Cinders gets fed and tries to get in his dish with him and he gets mad and knocks her off the platform.

She’s also taken to crying. She doesn’t meow… she makes a crying noise and it makes me so sad. If I lock the cats out of my bedroom at night so I can sleep and I come out early in the morning, she’ll come to me and cry because she wants to come snuggle in bed with me. So about 6am every morning, I take Patches with me and we snuggle for a little while.

For whatever reason, Patches is skiddish randomly during the day. It doesn’t matter how slowly you approach her, she runs off and doesn’t want to be touched. I’m not sure why she’s doing it and it’s not all the time.

Cinders is getting more rough with Patches as she gets older. They are wrestling harder and playing harder. But it’s a good thing – Patches needs to learn to fend for herself and where her place is here. That said, Patches is a little instigator! She is constantly popping Cinders and running off or swatting at him when he’s trying to relax. He put up with it the first couple of weeks but that is sooo over.

But yet… they love each other and snuggle together during the day.

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