We have lived in our house for 32 years in November. You can imagine or have lived 30 years in the same house and you know there is ancient dust under some of that furniture. Get kittens!
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A few days after we brought Moose and Squirrel home, I noticed their noses were a little crusty. I was worried they had not totally recovered from an upper respiratory infection they had while with their foster mom. I had them checked out at the vet and basically they were over that. Ok, so what’s with their noses?
As time went on and their noses needed to be cleaned every morning, I developed other theories about what the problem was. I decided for a while that it may be that they could get under all the heavy furniture that hasn’t been moved in 30 years and breathe in a lot of dust. But while they were playing, hiding, traveling under the giant book case or the big armoire filled with art supplies, they have found more than dust.
Squirrel’s collar and tag disappeared about a week after she got it. I looked high and low but never saw a sign of it until one morning, it appeared, a little dusty, under the dining room table. Since then, they have pulled out 2 dowels of differing diameters and lengths, a magnet they stole off the aquarium, and small clips I use in quilting. But I have developed another theory about their noses.
I think it may be cat food. They push it into the sides of their bowls and I wonder if that’s the problem. I am going to try feeding them on flat saucers rather than bowls and see it that helps. I suspect that it just means cat food will end up off the saucers and on the mat, but we’ll see.
When they aren’t under the furniture, eating, or sleeping, they help me do my quilting. They are lots of help if you consider that they steal everything they can get hold of help. Squirrel is on the sewing machine table and Moose has commandeered my chair.