I’m starting this year off in a pawsitive way, I’m already trying new things and hopefully I’ll be able to carry on doing new things through the whole year. I haven’t yet been able to experience snow but maybe soon, it’s getting colder and colder so paws crossed. So far this year I’ve already found a new tree to climb, I’ve explored a new bit of our gardens and most impawtantly I’ve snuggled on daddy’s lap for the very first time.
I’m trying to start the new year off in a pawsitive way, by doing good things and also trying new things too. I’m hoping that if I get off to a good start then if I’m a bit naughty during the year it will balance out a bit. I hope Santa Paws has a good memory and will remember anything good that I do when it comes back round to Christmas as that’s a long way away.
Already this year I’ve started on new adventures and explorations, I’ve found a new tree to climb, I’ve only climbed up it a little way so far but it’s got lots of branches and leaves to explore and map. Once I climb it a few more times I’ll have mapped it all out and learnt the best routes along the branches and up to the top. Each new tree smells different, there are new and exciting smells for me to explore and from the top a whole new way to listen to the sounds around me. I look forward to sitting as high up in the tree as mummy will let me, listening to the world go by, listening to the foxes barking in the park at night and the people and dogs earlier in the day.
One day mummy said as we were getting ready for walkies “Jenny, there’s some parts of our gardens that we haven’t been to yet, I’ve been saving them until you were a more experienced and confident adventure cat but I think you’re ready now. Shall we explore one of them today?” “Oh yes purrlease mummy, I’m ready for a new adventure I promise I won’t get scared.” So off we went on a new and exciting expedition. As we were on our walkies mummy was chatting away to me as she does and it turns out she was worried that I was getting bored going along the same route every day and thought something different would be fun and a bit more exciting. Hang on a minute though, this is the same way we go for walkies every day, I’ve been tricked I thought but then we went through a door into the inside, walkies can’t be finished already can it? This isn’t our inside area, what’s going on? Then we went through another door and before I knew it I was outside again but where were we? The feel of the ground was hard and cold but seemed vaguely familiar. Then as we walked I remembered mummy and I used to walk this way before but haven’t for a long time, we were where the motor machines roar along and sleep. We went towards the very far end and then mummy went clomp, clomp, clomp down some steps. I remembered these as I didn’t want to go down there before but this time down I went, at the bottom was a fence like the one I sneak through when mummy lets me climb the big trees in the park, I could feel the cold bars on my whiskers. I followed mummy and found some grass and bushes to explore, there were lots of new smells, dogs, people, other animals and the usual critters. It was an exciting walkies and fun exploring a new place with mummy
One evening I was sleeping on one of my usual spots in the bed behind daddy’s sitting on the sofa, after a while I crept down the back of the sofa to find a warmer spot as I usually do but instead of heading across to mummy’s lap I just plopped down onto daddy’s lap and curled up there instead. As I settled down and got comfortable I could hear daddy whispering to mummy “look, she’s never got on my lap before!” mummy was saying that all I need is a little stroke from time to time and I’d be fine. It was nice to feel daddy stroking me gently as I drifted off to sleep on him. His lap was warm and cosy and it’s a bit more padded than mummy’s and with a bit more space to curl up on. I was so cosy on there that I even let daddy pick me up, put me on the sofa when he really needed to get up and then I let him put me back on his lap when he came back. Snuggling on daddy’s lap made him very happy and so that made me happy too, I’m not sure why I haven’t done it sooner but I might just do it a bit more often now.
Hopefully I can find lots more exciting new things to do during the year which will help keep my mind sharp, then I can carry on being an adventure cat which is just sooooo exciting. I hope you can find some new and exciting things to do too.
Jenny’s Story 