Sleeping beauty cat

After a night on the tiles all this sleeping beauty cat wants to do is crash out.   It’s impossible to keep this rescued Maine Coon cat inside when she wants to go out.   Talullah’s ‘witching’ hour is at dusk and then she comes on high alert, her eyes gleam and it’s constant wowing until she gets her way.  It’s safe from traffic, there are no roads in her new home, just barns, woods, fields and plenty of small rodents which is what she likes to go after.  She’s a hunter and there’s nothing we can do to change her.

Morning finds her at the door waiting to come back in.  She might want a snack of biscuits but more often she has ate her fill of …. mice, voles, rats, rabbits, whatever she’s caught.   All she wants to do is curl up and go to sleep – when she wakes up, which is usually sometimes after lunch, she’ll be hungry again and be ready for a saucer of Natural Menu cat meat – yum! yum!

Talulah has always been a cat who is determined to do her own thing.  She’s a massive cat who was brought in to us as a stray.  She was very difficult at the start, she was aggressive and would swipe at you even if you were just walking past her.  Picking her up was out of the question.  We were told she’d been living wild before she was caught.

Most cats come round in the end but Talullah took her time.  When she went to her home we were upfront about the problems, this is no lap cat.   She was kept in for a while and came round to some extent, then she decided to live in one of the stables which she liked (a plentiful supply of mice).  Talulah became used to following people around until one day she sauntered in the house on her own and settled down on a chair.

Once she’d discovered the delights of a warm kitchen, easy food supply and blankets on the sofa, she was hooked.   So long as she can go out when she wants to, she is fine and has become an affectionate, fussy girl who now doesn’t mind being picked up and cuddled.  Food on the run and wild-wooding is still what she likes best though.