It’s funny. I just found out last night that Dono is a romantic. I was worried that I have not seen him groom Maryann. I mean, in the last month, I may have seen him lick her twice and I do mean TWICE. Each grooming was less than a second.

Well last night I got up to use the bathroom and peeked in on them while the lights were off,and there was Maryann, lying down with Dono giving her kisses from nose to shoulders. Guess the atmosphere must be right. I’ll try some Barry Manalow this weekend.

Well Maryann’s not quite a senior yet. More middle aged. She’s having her 7th birthday this September. I don’t think of them as senior until after 8. She’s doing all right although this morning she had me a little worred. She was acting ‘crazy’. I know that’s a common comment here but she would shake her head, then run over to Dono, lick his forehead and then nip his behind. I could tell from Dono’s eyes that she had been doing it for a while and her eyes were a bit ‘wild’ too. It was as if something was really bothering her but neither Dono nor I knew what it was. I picked her up and petted her for 5 minutes and she basically pooled in my hands – something she doesn’t usually do when I pet her. But she’s eating and pooping. If she’s still acting strange, I’ll take her into the vets tomorrow. Maybe she just needed some attention from her dad.

Fitz is doing terrific. He’s apparently binking like crazy now. He loves to cuddle up with my girlfriend when he wants to. He enjoys his condo I got him although he’s apparently ready for an addition since he’s chewn out the back wall on his second story. My girlfriend found some cheap, dried grapevine mini wreaths at Michaels that he apparently can’t put down. he doesn’t chew them to bits but rather loves throwing them about. He’s just about forgiven her roommate for the nail trim he received two months ago – which means it’s time for it again. Her roommate is happy to do the trimming to keep my girlfriend the ‘good guy’ in the relationship with the bun.

Oh, and she absolutely adored the poem I did on Georgie. She says she cried for an hour after reading it and still tears up whenever she looks at it in her bedroom.

Quick Recap – Girlfriend had a bun named Georgie who passed away after she was altered.  Although not the main cause, her diet of chips and pizza was probably a factor in it She got Fitzgerald afterwards and is taking much better care of him.  He stayed with me for a month while the girlfriend moved back east for her Doctorate and I ‘whipped’ him into shape.  Maryann wasn’t happy about him being there and if you look closely at the first picture, you can see a mall, black dot on his left (our right) lip just next to the split.  That is where Maryann bit him through the cage bars.  She only let go after Fitz backed up twice, hitting Maryann’s head into the bars both times rather hard.  She’s a feisty one.

Oh, as an FYI, Fitz found a way to get back at her. He’d do his best to be seen by Dono and just flop over or lie as close as he could get to the condo (I had a couple of fences seperating them). When he just sat there, it drove Dono crazy to the point that he had to mount Maryann to show Fitz that she was his girl. The ONLY times I had seen Dono mount Maryann was in Fitz’s presence.  And, needless to say, it totally freaked her out.

And people say cats are the evil, conniving species.