Amelia

Amelia 1994 - 2009

Amelia came to live with us in January of 2002, when she was seven years old. We named her after Amelia Earhart because we found her at Sun City Animal Rescue Shelter, which was located beside an airport. Also, because my husband has been an aviator most of his life.

Although I loved Amelia dearly she has been my husband's constant companion ever since she laid eyes on him. In the "cat room" at the shelter she jumped into his lap and would not leave.

When we moved back to the South, Amelia rode on top of her carrier in the front seat of the truck, right beside my husband, all the way. She seemed to like watching the country go by.

So long Amelia, you have been a sweet companion and we miss you.

Bye Bye Midnight

Midnight has run away from home. Actually we took her to her new home.

Midnight and Amelia never did decide to get along. Amelia has been with us for 7 years and the new cat just upset her world too much.

It has taken Amelia about a week to stop looking for Midnight but now she has settled down and seems content again.

As for Midnight............She has gone to live at our daughter's house. She now has a much bigger family. Besides our daughter, her husband and 3 children Midnight has two other cats, one very big golden retriever (who is terrified of all 3 cats), numerous fish, a frog and 1 pet rat! I don't go in their house unless I am sure the rat is it it's cage. They tell me he is very sweet!

Midnight now likes to sleep in the youngest son's room. He was always lovin' on her when she was here so he is happy. He also has the fish, frog and rat. Hmmm, I wonder if that is why Midnight likes his room!

She seems to be settling in just fine and we can see her anytime we want.

Sometimes we miss her but our household is more quiet now.

Studio Cats

Midnight came upstairs to visit in my Quilt Studio. She does not visit very often because Amelia intimidates her. The two cats are tolerating each other most of the time but Midnight still has not figured out that she is twice as big as Amelia and has claws!

As you can see here Amelia is very aware of the other cat's presence and does not like it.

Amelia keeps me company and sleeps most of the time I am working in the studio. Sometimes she patrols the top of the stairs just in cast Midnight wants to come up. Needless to say, Amelia was spoiled rotten and would like to keep it that way.

Kitty Update

Thank you to all who have responded to my posts and even sent private emails about the problems involved in socializing our two kitties. They are getting along a tiny bit better or maybe they are just doing a better job of watching out for each other. Of course the humans are monitoring their movements more closely. Amelia, the Siamese still snarls sometimes and the other day Midnight actually almost took a swipe at her instead of running away.

We spend a lot of time trying to socialize them and telling them to be nice and assuring Amelia that she is Number One cat! At night Amelia sleeps in our bed and we keep the bedroom door closed. I refuse to be startled awake by a cat caterwauling again.

I wish I could have taken a picture recently when Midnight was in the garage, trying to come in through the cat door, and Amelia was on the inside batting the cat door back every time it swung in.

If I ever get a picture of the two of them together I will post it.

Screaming Tasmanian Devils!

Have you ever been awakened by a dozen screaming Tasmanian Devils? Well that is almost what happened to us at 2:30 am Monday morning. We were awakened to the loudest most startling cat screaming I had ever heard and it was right under my side of the bed! It sounded just like we had been invaded by a dozen fighting Tasmanian devils. I raced for the water spray bottle while my darling husband crawled under the bed and grabbed Amelia by the scruff of the neck and chucked her into the laundry room and closed the door. Midnight ran upstairs to cower under a bed in the grandkids play room. Meanwhile my heart kept pounding and my breathing was labored for quite awhile. While Darling Hubby drifted off to dreamland I did not sleep until 5 am when I gave up and took a tranquilizer.

Last night we slept with the light on hoping to ward off another confrontation, which it did until I was preparing breakfast this morning at which time it started again.

Midnight weighs twice as much as Amelia and has claws but she doesn't fight back. She just runs and hides. Maybe if she would take a good swat at Amelia, the aggressor would leave her alone.

For about a week Midnight has been spending large parts of her day indoors but returning to the garage at bedtime. Amelia, the "Diva", aka "Vixen," hisses whenever she gets the chance but for the most part tolerates the newcomer.

After spending cold days inside by the fire Midnight became increasingly insistent that she be allowed to sleep inside at night and she began to attack the weather stripping around the garage door. Trying to preserve our house and our sleep we decided to let her sleep in our office. That was good for a couple of nights before she wanted out and would wake us with her meowing.

Sunday evening after much debate we decided to just let both cats sleep inside and the result was a dozen screaming Tasmanian Devils! We have been lavishing love an attention on Amelia trying to assure her that she is not being replaced but it hasn’t worked. Midnight tries very hard to stay out of the way but it hasn’t worked. What do we do now? Maybe some of you cat lovers out there will have a solution to our dilemma.

A Tale of Two Kitties

Amelia our beautiful 13 year old white snowshoe Siamese cat has been the "queen of the house" for 7 years now.


Recently another beautiful kitty has joined our family. Midnight is a beautiful totally black cat who is about two years old. She began hanging around our yard and sleeping on the porch swing about 5 or 6 months ago. She is a very sweet and well mannered kitty but was scrawny before we began feeding her. As the weather began to get colder we began to worry about her and she began to scratch on our back door. She would also sit on a porch chair back just outside our kitchen window and look longingly at us while we ate.

Recently weeks ago we gave in and took her to our town vet. Dr. Ann reported that Midnight is very healthy and about 2 years old with a wonderful calm and very sweet temperament. She didn't even complain when Dr. Ann checked her out and gave her several shots. However, we were assured that cats do very well on their own outside if we would just provide her with a warm and dry bed. We had been doing that but my wonderful husband, who has a very soft heart for animals, just could not let her sleep outside when the temp was forecast to dip down to 21!

Midnight has been sleeping in our garage ever sense then.

She can only stay in our garage because Amelia tries to terrorize Midnight to the new arrival.

We have been bringing Midnight in for short visits in hopes that Amelia would become more friendly.

Here they are checking out the tower. Darling husband rubbed catnip on it and we brought Midnight inside. Amelia did not even hiss until Midnight fell from the tower and landed right beside her. As you can see Midnight has become quite rotund since we have been feeding her.

Stay tuned for more adventures of Amelia and Midnight and their budding "friendship?"