Raising Sidney

Sidney on March 29, 2016

This little guy, well I should say big guy because he last weighed in a year ago and 14.5 pounds.  He is a tad heavier than that right now.  My husband is home sick and I didn't want him in the picture but....this is amazing that Sidney is up in his lap.  He has been in his lap now for abut an hour.  I love seeing and watching how Sidney has really progressed here with us.

He started out being thrown into our house that had a dog and several cats already.  He was scared of anything and everyone and all the other animals.  In his state of mind he didn't trust anything or anyone and rightly so.  He was being abused, kicked, shoved around and scared to pieces by another dog that loved to tree cats.


The first main thing that I had to fix, was his biting all the time.  I understood why he did that.  In his mindset he was going to bite it before it bit him.  That took months, but I did get him to calm down and accept love.  

Charlie

He now likes to "play" with Charlie verses when he first was introduced to him and he fought with him.  During this time that he has been here Charlie lost a couple of pounds.  That is a good thing, but Sidney put on those ponds.  Hahaha!  He still is very active.  He is about 4 1/2 years old now and I just love him to bits!

Sidney has an idea how the day is supposed to go.  Many times it doesn't go like he thinks that it should.  The moment that I get out of bed, everyone follows me to the kitchen where I keep the containers of food, one for Duke's food and the other for the cats food.  This is where it gets tricky, for me.  I pour some food in the dishes on the shelves in the living room.  Frederick gets on the shelf that is next the the stove.  Then Sunshine gets the dish in the corner on the opposite side of the wall in the living room.  That is not too bad, but when I go to fill the dish up in the office that is on the widow seal........Sidney runs for it and runs in front of me most times.  I have now changed my steps in that.  I will wait for him to run in front of me first, then go pour the food in the dish.  That works 85% of the time.  After those are all filled and they have eaten it is now time to let out the girls; Shadow and Sunshine ,

Frederick

and then I let our Frederick, the newest member of the family a short while later.

I am then able to sit down with my first cup of coffee.  Oh but Sidney has other ideas.  We must play. He loves the feather on the end of the string at the end of the stick.  My word he does love to jump up and he jumps up pretty high.  We have to do that for about 15 minutes, then he stops and goes to lay down.  

Sometimes Charlie gets in the act too but he would rather the red dot toy.  The red dot toy only gets taken out when it is a cloudy day because they can't see the dot when it is sunny.  It gets washed out by the sun.  They both love that toy and I could play with them for a lot longer than 15 minutes.  Charlie doesn't really go chasing the red dot, but Sidney loves to chase it....on the carpet.  He really doesn't like it on the floor too much so I keep it on the carpet.

Sunshine

Shadow

Sidney has really learned to love it here even with the girls that like to hiss at him and try to take his face off with their claws.  They don't hurt each other though as I trim their claws about once a month, sometimes twice a month just so they don't hurt each other and me too.

Little Bits

Just recently in the last 3 or 4 months has wanted to sit on the chair with me and he has allowed me to pick him up.  He didn't like that before and would squeak at me to let him down.  It is a rare occurrence to see him sitting in my husband's lap, so when he was on his lap my husband said "Look What I Have."  I just had to get a picture of that.


Sidney is so precious and beautiful too and he has adapted very nicely and I am loving it to see a happy cat.

Sidney's first days here, almost 2 years ago.