Peaches is one of our oldest cats

Peaches is another member of our ‘Golden Oldie’ club.   At 18years she is our next to oldest cat.   This igloo was donated to us and Peaches commandeered it right away.   It’s lovely and cosy and warm for her – and she has a heated pad in there as well just to make sure.   Peaches is in good health although slightly deaf.  She is still as beautiful and as much a character as ever.   Peaches  came in as a kitten – a little stray found at Heeley in Sheffield.   She was a quirky little spitfire of a ginger girl and she isn’t much different now!   If she likes you – then she is obsessively loving but if you don’t fit her ideal of a servile human then you will get total disdain, if not an actual claw when you are least expecting it.

In her youth, Peaches had a couple of litters of kitten, she is after all such a beautiful and unusual red tabby.   But motherhood wasn’t for her, she tolerated her babies and reared them but only just.   We had her spayed and she was relieved she didn’t have to nurse kittens again.   That wasn’t quite the end of it though.   Her neglect of kittens turned to actual dislike after she’d been spayed.  If there were any kittens around, and this only applied to the really tiny ones, Peaches would go after them and pick them up in her mouth and run away with them.   No, not to fuss and love them either.  We had to keep her confined to quarters and well away from the maternity wing!