This is Butters

This is Butters, she is my shadow, especially if I go upstairs to my sewing room where there are many treasures to be found.  The sewing room is the place where she can literally get in my face.  I have to keep the sewing room door shut when I am not up there because there is no telling what treasure she might want to bring downstairs to me.  She is a very happy kitty most of the time, and her buddy is Sugar.  Butters and Sugar came to live with us a little more than two years ago when they were fairly young kitties.  I think Sugar was about 4 months old and Butters was probably 2 months.  They were together in the foster home they came from and it seemed a good idea to get two kitties that already had bonded.   Since they have been here the only time they have seen other animals, especially kitties, is through the windows.

Well, a phenomena occurred the other day.  Z stopped by and she had her kitty with her... in a carrier, they had just come from the vet. Butters sat next to the carrier and sniffed and appeared to be very interested in what was in that cage.  It was only when Z was leaving that Butters growled at Cabbage.  Sugar observed from a distance and seemed unphased by it all.  After they were gone is when the crazy Butters appeared.  She went ballistic with hissing and growling if Sugar came anywhere close to her.  Sugar kind of backed off and looked at us as if to say, I don't know what is wrong with her.  Sugar and Butters are best buddies and they roll and tussle and chase each other, then they stop and start grooming each other before they lay down next to each other.  This second picture is back when they were first here, but it is still not uncommon to see them cuddled together.  Butters continued the whole rest of the day to hiss and growl at Sugar.  Then during the night when I woke briefly, they were both down by my ankles, so I assumed they had resolved their differences.

Turns out I was wrong, once we got up in the morning Butters was right at her growling and hissing again.  Sugar just tried to ignore her.  It wasn't until late evening on the second day that Butters finally settled down and started playing with Sugar again, and the hissing and growling ceased.

Something stirred up a memory... although she was so young, it is hard to know just what would have stuck in the background for so long.