Depression House
12 Oct 2024 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneUgh. Anxiety and no energy and cat divorce. Wax is just about as sick as if she had the flu, but depression. Mental flu. I'm having a resurgence of missing Snookums worse again, for some reason.
The cats seem to be making progress, and they are each delightful, but we're still cat divorced. I treasure the cuddles I get from them, but they are both a lot less cuddly than any Cornish rexes we've had except the Crazy (and she was pretty cuddly, but she seemed to be both under- and overstimulated. She wanted cuddles and also wanted not to be touched).
Tristana doesn't cuddle very much, even when she sleeps in my blanket with me; she sits like a loaf inside the curve of my body, not touching usually, and allows me to drape a hand over her ribcage and purrs violently, but she doesn't tuck into your armpit or stretch out along your belly like Snookums and the BB and Lily did. She tried to comfort me last night as I was crying and it was sweet and adorable, albeit inconvenient having my face licked; but she got tired of sitting next to me and being petted after five or ten minutes and went back to her tent against the radiator, still purring violently. Sipuli spends about half as much time snuggling as Snookums at her age, the rest in the turtle or her carrier by herself.
I am not getting hugs from these Cornish rexes!!! It's ridiculous! I keep thinking... We're going to have to get a male kitten eventually as well, just to make sure we have a hugger in the house! (I don't have any idea how possible that is because Tristana's so panicky. Impossible to tell if she would react the same to a kitten. I don't think we could handle the cat divorce again, if so.)
The cats seem to be making progress, and they are each delightful, but we're still cat divorced. I treasure the cuddles I get from them, but they are both a lot less cuddly than any Cornish rexes we've had except the Crazy (and she was pretty cuddly, but she seemed to be both under- and overstimulated. She wanted cuddles and also wanted not to be touched).
Tristana doesn't cuddle very much, even when she sleeps in my blanket with me; she sits like a loaf inside the curve of my body, not touching usually, and allows me to drape a hand over her ribcage and purrs violently, but she doesn't tuck into your armpit or stretch out along your belly like Snookums and the BB and Lily did. She tried to comfort me last night as I was crying and it was sweet and adorable, albeit inconvenient having my face licked; but she got tired of sitting next to me and being petted after five or ten minutes and went back to her tent against the radiator, still purring violently. Sipuli spends about half as much time snuggling as Snookums at her age, the rest in the turtle or her carrier by herself.
I am not getting hugs from these Cornish rexes!!! It's ridiculous! I keep thinking... We're going to have to get a male kitten eventually as well, just to make sure we have a hugger in the house! (I don't have any idea how possible that is because Tristana's so panicky. Impossible to tell if she would react the same to a kitten. I don't think we could handle the cat divorce again, if so.)
