Mad, mole cat

Part cat, part ahem...mole? Either way, it doesn't matter: Gandalf burrows and loves to be buried in the blanket where he holes up against the cold.

On cold evenings, he plants himself between his two humans and retreats from the world. When we retire, he doesn't move so we "fold" him away.

The other evening, he must have been really feeling the cold because instead of curling up between us, on the blanket, he burrowed behind it. When The Husband got up to get something, this was all I could see of him:

This is how he leaves his messy nest.

The couch is not the only battleground. On particularly cold nights he wakes me up, demanding to be let under the covers. Then, when it's time to get up, he can't wait for me to go. Once I've got out of the warm bed, actually, sometimes before I've even lifted my rear from the bed, he's tightly curled up against the pillow.

That morning, I decided I had to make the bed around him and this was the result.

Twelve cats have deigned to share their space with me over the last 35 years. They have all been different characters and Gandalf is one of the few I've had since he was a kitten. There are things we thought he'd outgrow in the last six or so years. He has not. The whippy tail and the burrowing are just two of them. I guess we have to accept that he'll have these kittenish foibles into his dotage never mind ours!

Until next time, be well
Fiona
The Sandbag House
McGregor, South Africa

Photo: Selma
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