The Rest of the Crew, Pt. 2

I introduced you to the canine portion of the family last Friday and intended to introduce you to the feline portion today. Then I made the terrible discovery that I do not have any pictures of one of our cats, Ziggy, in a digital format. Granted, Ziggy has virtually no interaction with the rats and thus is probably outside of the scope of this blog, but I still feel terrible leaving her out.

So imagine, if you will, a lovely older white cat who sometimes lays on the bed with one eye open, watching the rats. That is the end of the interaction.

Moving on....

We also have Simon, who surprisingly ignores the rats most of the time. Surprisingly, because Simon is our most social cat. He isn't picky, he'll socialize with just about anyone.

Simon harasses Annie.

In addition to Ziggy and Simon, we have Marty. Marty's relationship with Saké will be the focus of a future post, because her behavior with Marty is drastically different from how she acts with Penelope. Marty is the least cat-like cat I have ever known and most of the time he acts far more like a dog. He is also the cat I like to see least around the rats' cage.

Marty is no stranger to comfort.

Finally, we have Penelope, who, if you've read this blog at all previously, you are familiar with. Penelope spends a lot of quality time with the rats and whenever she's by the cage, Saké comes right up to her. They spend lots of time sniffing each other, as well as Saké grabbing Penn's paws, etc.

Since Penn has already been featured on this blog, here's a crazy picture of her as a kitten.

So yes, in response to what you're thinking, we have a full house. And we haven't even gotten to the horses yet!