Purr Machine

On Thursday, Harley went in to be spayed. When we picked her up after, the nurse advised us to keep her and Fizz apart for the first night and said Fizz might be a bit hissy as Harley would smell of the vet’s. We planned to anyway. They play very rough.

There was a lot of hissing and a squirrel’s tail when we got home – from Fizz... 

I have yet to hear Harley hiss or growl. Then Harley spent most of the evening asleep. Now she is back to her usual bouncy self and trying desperately to get Fizz to play with her. We’re only letting them be together under supervision though.

I’ve never had a cat with attitude like Fizz before (sweet as she is). I thought it was because she was female (I’ve always had male cats), but Harley is extremely laid back and easy going so I guess it isn’t that (and yes, that's a pair of my socks she's cuddled up with).

People tend to think Harley is a boy because of her name. She came by it because after she and her brother were rescued by Paws and Mittens, they were named Harley and Quinn (after the Joker’s sidekick in Batman, Harley Quinn).

She suits the name though because she purrs like this!

I have never known a cat that purrs so much! You only have to look at her and off she goes.

I still have the cold. I can’t remember the last time I had anything that hung on like this or a cough that kept me awake most of the night. Not that I’m moaning. Well, maybe a little bit. I’m just fed up with it now.

At least I finished the book about the avian flu pandemic. Thank goodness! Sitting up in bed in the wee small hours coughing my guts up reading about people coughing their guts up and dropping dead wasn’t exactly comforting reading.

Now I’m reading A Book of Horrors which I bought for 92 pence on Kindle. It’s quite a mixed bag of stories and there are a few I haven't finished, but I felt the Stephen King story alone made it worth the purchase. I also enjoyed the story by John Ajvide Lindqvist and I haven’t finished the anthology yet.*

I think I need to read something funny next!

*Since writing this post, I've now read stories by Ramsey Campbell, Robert Shearman and Lisa Tuttle in A Book of Horrors and I am very pleased I bought it, especially at such a good price.