OPIE GETS A LESSON

Last week when it was so hot (it broke June records), I took Opie to Bill’s bedroom to stay cool in the air-conditioning. (It’s easy to rest on the bed and watch him because he can’t get off the bed). When he was sleeping under his favorite sweatshirt, I brought in my cat Sumkui to also cool down. Opie smelled the cat as soon as I put him down on the bed and came over to investigate. After he sniffed Sumkui, he hissed at him and made Sumkui freak out and run for the door. Opie thought he was pretty tough.

A couple of days later when Opie was outside on the cat bowl shelf, Sweet Pea (my least aggressive cat) jumped up and started eating from the bowl. Opie walked over to her and sniffed and she moved farther away from him. Opie moved closer to her and sniffed again. Sweet Pea moved as far over as the shelf allowed. Opie followed and sniffed again and then hissed at her. Sweet Pea calmly bonked him on the top of his head with her paw. Opie looked really surprised. He was the one to back off this time.

(The top picture shows Opie at his food dish on the top shelf of his outdoor area. The bottom picture shows how he gets to the lower cat bowl shelf. Notice that he is in his outdoor sleeping box sniffing the air because he smells Rouge- who was not the cat who bonked him. Left-click on the pictures to enlarge them.)