We’d been discussing getting another cat for some time. Mitch is awesome, but Stacie really wanted another kitty. One of our friends had a cat that she had become allergic too over time, and they were looking to find a home for it. Lewis was a very standoffish cat, mostly stayed outside at their house, and would only let them pet him occasionally. One day Stacie had Tanya bring Lewis over to see if he got along with Mitch. Lewis wouldn’t come out of his carrier, but Mitch poked his head in, licked him, and sat down and put his paw on Lewis’ paw. Awww… so we took in Lewis.
He mostly stayed under the bed in our bedroom, occasionally scurrying out the window to sit on the roof under the eaves. Slowly Stacie started making headway with him. He started to allow her to pet him sometimes (sometimes leading to him hissing and scratching her). At night he’d sleep on the heated bathroom floor. But he never came out of the bedroom.
After a few months Stacie decided to see if he wanted outside on the main level so he could roam. He bolted once he hit the ground. We weren’t sure that he’d return. But he did, and we settled into a pattern. He would roam the day and night, and return to get fed in the mornings and evenings. He’d even let us pet him on the porch before we fed him. With some of the cold nights we tried to coax him inside, but he wasn’t having any of it. So Stacie bought him a little dog house and put it on the front porch and loaded it with blankets. He moved in, and sleeps in the dog house most nights, and continues to roam all the time.
Which brings us to Otto…
Since Lewis didn’t much qualify as getting another cat for the house (can’t sit on the couch and pet him and such), Stacie said she wanted to get another one. She found Otto online. He was the newest member of a household with two other cats and two dogs. The dogs and Otto got along, and Otto seemed to like the other cats, but they didn’t like him apparently. The wouldn’t let him eat, fought with him, and it wasn’t a good situation. Even though he was so beautiful, he was the latest addition to their family, so they tried to find a different home for him.
Stacie drove over and met him, and they bonded instantly:
She brought him home to meet Mitch. Mitch sniffed him, head bumped him, and walked off. No surprise, Mitch is chill. And Otto was inquisitive, but cool with him. The play hide and seek now and then.
Charley was super anxious to play with Otto, and although Otto wasn’t really scared of her, it was a bit overwhelming so Charley got slapped a bit. Kaiser was indifferent. As Kaiser is. Unless food is involved.
Otto and Sennet bonded right away, and Sennet began carting Otto around the house, as he does with Mitch. Otto seems fine with this. The first night Otto slept on Sennet’s pillow right near his head.
That developed into a pattern, that now it seems Otto sleeps most of the night with Sennet. Sometimes he wanders, coming into the other rooms, or we can hear him chasing and batting stuff around the hallways. Most mornings he’s back on Sennet’s pillow. He’s a great cat, wanders all over the house, doesn’t mind the dogs, lays on the couch to get petted, and purrs up a storm. He’s even warmed up to Charley’s craziness.
Our cat Otto…
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Teren, Cayden, Sennet, Brooks, Miles
Teren
Brooks, Teren
Troy
Owen
Miles
Coach Dan (he played college ball and is great with the kids)
Cayden (Coach Dan’s son)
Luka- he just turned 10 so will be moving up next year. He is a great player
Miles
Brooks
Teren
Coaching from 1st base
Notice the kid from the other team. He was a total jerk and wouldn’t shake hands and threw a huge temper tantrum after the game. If it was at all appropriate to go up to someone else’s kid and get in their face and tell them they were being an asshole, this would have been a time I would have been happy to do it.
