Living in BRB ... or are we?

Ahhhhhh soooo easy

On a Friday afternoon 4 storage Pods arrived full of more of The Lim's hoardings. We had a visit from Malika and Kurt (Malika's long term beau) to help rearrange and empty part of the garage. Thank God for Malika's spacial skills. We emptied two Pods in one afternoon and then Kurt had to go back to city living and his real job. The next day mama was sick and asked us to rearrange the two remaining Pods. When we were done we told mama that we moved some things around but what she didn't know was that we emptied one and a half of the Pods. When mama felt better she went to see what needed to be done and found that the Pods were almost empty "oooo I love my children" yelled mama. We finished emptying the half Pod and the garage was full again. Tuesday morning the 4 empty Pods were picked up by the company and they asked us how our move went. Akita and mama cracked up and told them about The Move From Hell. They said "guess you didn't use us or it would have been ... Ahhh sooo easy".

Akita The Animal Whisperer

Awhile after moving out the old owners of BRB arrived at the door ... the husband needed a place to stay for a few nights while they emptied the rest of their belongings out of BRB and into the machine shop. It was kinda nice inheriting a guy to fix things for the first little while until we found our way around the place. The first day Rich (The husband/ old owner) brought a frog to Akita and said "ever since I have been hanging around i have never seen one of these here". Akita and Dragana's boys Milan and Charlie (mini warriors) created a habitat for the frog out of our old pond with water, leaves, grass and dirt. Dragana (coolest woman ever) sat and had coffee with mama. The next day Rich arrived with a salamander and said "wow you really are The Animal Whisperer!". About a week later while playing with our barn cats (of which we inherited 7 of) Akita noticed that the young kitten was hogging all of the food and might be pregnant. We were told before moving in that the SPCA had done a TNR (Trap Neuter and Release) program in the neighbourhood with the barn cats 2 years ago ... guess they missed a few. so now we arrived with 2 dogs, 4 cats and two kids (not goats they come later). Here we are with 1 toad, 1 salamander, 7 barn cats (possibly 1 pregnant) plus all that we came with. Akita goes to a sleepover and mama arrives home to find another toad in the garage ... "her powers are working even when she isn't home" says mama.

Saphron and Emmie Kitty switch Roles

Saphron has always been Malika's cat ... she was supposed to be Akita's cat (thus the name ... Saphron ... a yellow spice), but cat's choose their slaves. So Saphron choose Malika ... sleeping on a pillow next to her head in the old house ... Malika's loft bed. Yes it killed Malika's allergies, but still she slept where she wanted (Cats have Slaves ... Dogs have Masters). Saphron has always been a social (talks a lot), easy going (when she gets her demands fulfilled ... "OUT ... NOW") and sometimes even downright cuddly.
Emmie Kitty was pretty much the opposite kind of cat. She sat above Mama's bed at night mumbling demon incantations (mmmnnnn munumba grrba grraa or some such things). Mama would often have to ask Akita for help as she woke up to Emmie's claws in her throat ... "Emmie ... down" was all Akita had to say and down she would hop and under the bed she would hide. To save Mama's life ... The vet allowed Emmie to have her front claws removed. (the vet's office had been caring for her through all her psycho-fabric-eating-demon-incanting ways). the vet's office used to put up a "caution" sign in her kennel whenever she boarded there.  Following her declawing ... Emmie started to slowly change her ways. She began sleeping in Mama's bed more and more often (usually on Mama's pillow - above her head). She also started "teaching sock school" .... she would carry a sock around in the bedroom and often make small piles of socks and "talk to them". "Nooo Nooo Ohh Nooo" she would recite ... when no one was looking.

Moving to BRB has had an interesting effect on both these cats. Saphron now fights with all the other cats in the house, talks a lot less and really does not enjoy cuddles. She even peed all over DY's bed when Malika slept over to show her displeasure at her "bringing Kurt here".  On the up side ... Shauna (longtime forever friend) suggested "Calm" cat food for Saffy and it seems to be helping.
Emmie walks around the entire house (in the old house she hardly left Akita and Mama's Bedroom) and hisses at all the other animals to tell them she is boss. She comes downstairs at around 10:30pm to bring Mama to bed or stands at the top of the stairs and yells "Mamma, Mamma R u?" (we think she is saying Mama where are you?) or "Nooo Mamma Nooo".  And the vet's office didn't even have to use the "Caution" sign on her last visit.

Thanks for reading and welcome to our barns,
The Lims