Saki Sunday

[lavendertook]

My beautiful girl with her little crossed paws, contemplative:






Princess Saki enthroned in the sunroom with a subject at her feet.


The forth week without her, Tuxie seemed to have stopped looking for her, but he is still mostly staying near or in her spots in the living room, and is staying more present with me when I'm home. Right now, he is lying where he is sitting in the picture above, right in front of me. He and Moo both licked my hand twice this past week, a totally new behavior for them.


Sakushka always had to throw one back foot over the rim of her bed. I have a pic of her doing that the first year she was with me.


The ottoman was her most frequented bed spot since we moved to this apartment 8 years ago, where she could guard me when I sat on the loveseat sofa. In her bed like a little Saki sunday.


I don't think she slept as solid as she should have when I was home--she always had to keep an eye on me. Little fluff dragon in the center of things. I miss her so much.

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[addie71.livejournal.com]

Poor Tuxie and Moo. I'm sure they are confused and miss their companion, too.

*hugs*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Tuxie has definitely missed her, though I think he is adjusting better now. Some people think you should show them the dead body, and I wonder if I should have brought Saki's body home, but I don't know if they really understand, and also I know animals in the wild often go off and hide away when dying, so I wonder if it's not usual for animals to never see their dead companions. I don't know. But I'm watching him close and playing with him more. He wouldn't go into Saki's bed next to my pillow, but has been eying it wistfully, until I put him in it last night, at which he purred and spent a good part of the night in.

I don't think Moo has really missed Saki--they were family and would occasionally cautiously touch noses, but they didn't really care for each other. Moo did not like being second fiddle to the charming Saki who tended to dominate my attention in a good way, and due to her illness, so it's understandable Moo didn't like it. If they were age mates, I would have worked more to not show favoritism, but not when it was likely Moo would have time after Saki was gone for me to make it up to her, Moo being seven years younger.

Moo and Tuxie are being more cuddly. Moo is enjoying not having to compete for attention. I'm hoping more attention now can help erode her pissy side. I'm hoping it might make her and Tuxie closer--they haven't had much to do with each other since Moo was totally done mothering him when he was 6 months old and foisted him off on Saki. It's her time to shine and get as much attention as she wants and she deserves that. We'll see what she does with it.