Daphne – An Aristocratic Cat

Sigfrido has a problem with the length of his legs:) While walking around he often expects his legs to be longer… the result is a funny stunt and a wondering cat. Another favorite activity is watching our gerbil Sally when she is running around in her cage. He can sit there for hours just watching and dreaming of eating mice… We hope he will enjoy his time as an inside- and outside cat. He loves the walking times outside and started playing with the grass and the bugs in the grass. Also both cats are sitting together outside, one with a leash, one without. Katje plays tricks on Siggi by hunting his tail and running away Every single piece of grass that is long enough to reach Siggi´s nose is eaten, must be very tasty grass outside here.

The last days Siggi became a brave inside- and outside cat. He fought his first fight with the neighbor cat and got to know small and very big hedgehogs. He learns a lot from Katje although she doesn´t seem to like that. She is often upset by him and goes away. They play together when one of the humans is with them but when they are on their own Katje doesn´t search for the company of Sigfrido, but he does, he seems to love her and to want to be with her. We hope they will get a bit closer by time but as long as both are happy cats it is okay for everyone. Siggi is so playful and since he is a member of our family our “tiny” Katje has become adult and reasonable and is now the leader of the cat world. Maybe she doesn´t want to seem childish when she´s cuddling with us while Siggi is watching. Sigfrido´s fur changed into a darker shade and he is no longer too thin because he eats very well and likes nearly all kind of food. He has found his own places in the house and in the garden, the roof of the neighbour´s shed is one of them. At night he sleeps beside me and stays there till I wake up. Will send a few new photos of Siggi:)

Have to tell some funny news: Yesterday when I was sitting at my desk Siggi found the strings on the arms of my T-shirt ant pulled them like he wanted me to come with him. A few minutes later I stood up and… Siggi took my place on my chair immediately. Now I know why he wanted me to move by pulling my shirt  And Sigfrido has a new favorite place to sleep and to play: in our bath tub. He loves lying there just watching us. He also talks a lot. When he is playing outside on his own and he discovered something he runs into the house quickly to one of us and talks like he wanted to tell stories about his adventures outside. Short time later he leaves for the next tour to come back when the next adventure has taken place.

So cute that Fleur knwos how to get you away from HER place:)

Siggi flollows Katje everywhere. He is a bit clumsy and she is often too fast for him but he tries to follow. Sometimes he gets lost on their ways and comes home a bit sad that he lost Katje.
When Katje had to go to the doctor a few days ago, Siggi was so happy, when we came back home . He ran to her and gave her his nose and poor little Katje (she had a problem with her throat, but it´s fine again) didn´t know what was happening to her, but she couldn´t hide that she was happy, too. She still doesn´t want him to come too close but she likes to show him her world as an adult cat. Today while I was doing the housework, Katje killed and brought three animals, two mice and one bird. She presented them to Siggi with big pride before she finally killed them or ate them. Siggi sniffed on them… and didn´t like those dead things and went away. One day he will learn how to hunt, Katje wouldn´t accept a boyfriend who wants to save her victims:)

Siggi started being a hunter. His victims are fireflies and butterflies and he has a lots of fun jumping through the garden and trying to catch them. He hasn´t caught one of them but it doesn´t matter for him:) In the evenings or when we come home after work and call “Katje” to come home we can be sure that Siggi is with her and follows her home. Yesterday he watched her climbing a huge tree in the garden. She was so proud that she can do it and he just has to watch, Siggi was lying in the grass under the tree and looked up to his friend. He is also practicing climbing up a tree but he still has a problem with the length of his legs:) And it seems to be too warm for the boy, he starts panting after playing in the sun. Or maybe he does it because Katje sometimes pants after a very long play and he copies her behavior. What he also loves is following our African Hedgehog on his walking tours. We will take some new photos and send them.

Wow, amazing… I think Siggi was too clumsy for it, he has already climbed the roof of our shed but that is a very small and climbing-friendly roof. A few minutes ago I watched him climbing over the fence of our neighbor.. the first time he was successful. Normally he just tried and watched Katje while she was climbng the fence easily.

Siggi got to know our friend´s dog and he was very brave. He directly hissed at the dog and the dog went backwards what impressed Siggi, so he continued hissing and watching the dog escaping from him. Te dog is very tall and I think that´s why Siggi is now the proudest cat in the world. He himself made the dog escaping. What a pity that he don´t know that Tarek (the dog) just wanted to be friends because he loves cats. While cat was hissing at dog, Katje was sitting on the roof just watching the scenario. The most favorite play or Siggi at the moment is hunting water. Now it is raining.. the right weather for him. What he also discovered is watching our lemmings in their cages and dreaming of having them for breakfast. You can see he improved very well at being a hunter in the last few days. In the evening he often plays hide and seek or runaway with Katje and he also explored the other cats and houses in the neighborhood. Everybody, except of the other cats, love him.
The best place for sleeping seems to be my laundry basket and when I pegged out my laundry he avoids me getting bored by catching the clothes and pulling them down from the laundry rack. Big fun for him:)
Will send some new photos.

Hello, I followed the news about the transport.. so great that all went well.
Siggi takes his role serious. Yesterday night when we came home late he was practising to hunt. It was so funny to watch him jumping through the garden without a real victim… he was just practising. Katje brings her victims every day and Siggi slowly begins to understand and he definitely wants one of those tasty “pets”, too. Today he was fascinated by some grasshoppers and I had to rescue a baby frog before Siggi could hunt him. Tonight I will send some more photos to Martina. I´m still trying to to take a photo of him while he is playing with the water in the garden, but he is too fast.
Greets from a quite rainy Germany, but that the right weather for Siggi:)

Hello,
did you get the new photos of Siggi and his cat-team?

Wiebke

Hello,

Siggi learns a lot. Katje is his teacher. As he had to learn hunting when he came to us and has improved very much, he is now a specialist in ritual killing and every morning we find several mice – divided in many pieces and distributed all around the house. Must be a very bloody game but both, Katje and Siggi, enjoy it. They both play tricks on us by hiding dead mice under the carpet so that we step on them. It is a sad game for the mice, an ugly one for us, but I have to say that we are happy that Siggi learned that fast and became such an irresistible king of the garden.
He remembers the time we go to bed and so he is always the first who reserves the best place in the middle before anyone else can take this place:)

Mikesch is still very ill and the doctor doesn´t know if he will stay that fit for a long time. His body is fit but his nose is rotting all the time and the meds don´t help. We hope that we can find another therapy for him and until there is a decision, all the three cats enjoy their life and they also enjoy kidding and playing tricks on each other. Siggi learned that Mikesch is a member of our family, too and they accept each other most of the time.

Greets to you
Wiebke

oh, thanks. Tomorrow is the next date with the vet, I will ask him. I think it is not just a wound the upper skin disappears and beneath is infected tissue. It looks cauterized, but it can´t be. The one side of the nose doesn´t work, but the other one does and I hope the vet can save the ability to smell and breathe.

Many thanx for your help and I will tell you if it helped Mikesch.

So many thanks!

Yesterday we spend the whole afternoon till 8 in the evening at the vet. Mikesch was put asleep and the cut off two other pieces of his nose and then a CT of his head was made. The CT was good and there was absolutely nothing unnormal, what made us a bit happier. Now we have to wait till Friday. The vet said there is the small possibility that it is a kind of herpes. She couldn´t find cells that show that but maybe the cause lies deeper.

Mikesch looks like a boxer now and doesn´t feel confortable with his bleeding and the need to stay inside.

Will let you know the news!

Oh, okay, yes, I know Hyaluronsäure. I thin we´ll have to wait with that, because the vet cut off parts of the front nose. But I have Hyaluronsäure at home and will ask the vet when and if to try it. If you see my e-mail address, you could send me yours and I could send you a picture of his nose and the news of Siggi directly. (Only if it is okay for you)