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I just remembered, after Pepper came into bed with us, she was nibbling on my feet through my socks. I'll bet it's something similar as with Caramel, that she doesn't realize my feet in socks are a part of me. Her nibbles were more gentle than Caramel's, though.

I have a feeling they were both running around upstairs together last night. They were kind of loud. I don't think it was just Caramel, because Caramel never did that on her own before, and she's probably not that loud on her own, except maybe when she's chasing Mr. Red Dot.

Caramel was so cute coming downstairs last night. She did her "mew, mew, mew, mew, mew" thing as she came down the steps, but she did it in sad tone of voice. She likes going upstairs by herself, but when she wakes up she might feel lonely. I think she also gets mad at me when I don't go to bed when she thinks I should. There were times when she was sitting in her chair looking at me, looking like she was getting impatient.


We're still putting aloe on Pepper's back. The middle of her wound is a long, narrow stripe, and it has two bigger circular wounds at either end. Actually, towards her head, it's like two bigger circular wounds. The bigger wound towards her tail seems like it's mostly healed, and I had trouble finding it for the aloe. The long wound is sometimes hard to see (it shows up in the Youtube videos, but maybe the aloe is making it more visible) -- it's thin enough that her hair mostly covers it. However, right now, I think it might be the worst looking part of her wound. It still has a raw look to it, and it's raised up in a ridge. The larger part near her head was healing up, but then I think she was scratching at it and it looked raw again. Now I think it's back to the dandruff look.

Her fur does feel a lot better than it did at the shelter. There, for some reason, her hair felt sticky and almost gross. Now, most of it (obviously the aloe will have an effect) feels nice and soft. She has a really cute fur pattern on her chest.

FO said that her body looked a little like an overgrown rat when we first brought her home last week, but she's starting to look more like a cat.

Caramel, on the other hand... This might seem odd to say about a cat, but she's actually muscular. You might not notice it a lot of the time because she's covered in so much fuzz, but she does this one particular stretch (after she's been lying down for a while) where she stretches out far horizontally and sometimes kicks out one of her back legs for an extra stretch, and the stretch apparently also works as a flex, and you can see then that she has muscle definition.

I guess that comes from the way she plays. She likes to play to complete exhaustion, take a cat nap, and play to complete exhaustion again. Well, except she probably doesn't like the cat nap step and would prefer to skip it if she didn't exhaust herself. She'll sit on her chair, or one of the levels in her tower, and have her eyes and head get heavy as she fights sleep.

We had a little scare as Caramel ran outside when I came home, but she immediately ran back in.

Caramel really loved hers! It was the Friskies Pacific Salmon patte. She only likes the patte, not the "chunks". (In fact, even Pepper left a lot of last night's chunk meal.) To make it easier to eat, I mash it up with a spoon, and I do think she prefers it that way. She ate just about the whole thing, though she doesn't lick the bowl clean like Pepper might (Pepper is still working on her own).

I only gave them each a quarter of the can.

I just checked on Pepper and she's on her little bed in the big room looking out the window.

She has mannerisms that make her seem so prim and proper. When she stretches, she daintily puts one paw a little bit in front of her and dips a bit, almost like she's doing a curtsey as much as a stretch.