Cuddles
The Diva Relaxing

Yes, Papa Cork made this tree for me, but isn't that what fathers are for?

In my first gig I was Fantasia, beloved diva ruling the home of thespians Cheri Charney and her husband, The AmazingAndy. I'm not sure what made him so amazing, but if he wanted to think that, I had no problem with it. I did have a problem with him yelling at me, but I have since discovered that men married to charming women all seem to be loud.

Cheri had a second baby coming soon, and she was recovering from an accident, and I was so affectionate, which is my nature, that she wanted to give me a more relaxing home.

Not wanting to deprive me of a theatrical setting, where I would be appreciated for my presence alone, Cheri sent me to the Cork Ranch, to be surrogate child for Mama and Papa Cork, whose performing sons had all grown up and gone away for other stages.

After a testy first week when the crude Papa Cork tried to force me out from under the couch with a rope weighted by a cloth mouse that he was swinging, I managed to adapt to this new place, and my new name of Cuddles.

Mama Cork is simply wonderful.

Papa Cork is barely tolerable, but as I said, I expected that.

 
You have to understand that after a girl gets her right side scratched, the left side demands the same.

 
Guarding Mama's Mac
until she gets home

Playing with Christmas ribbon with Iyad.

Now there was a gentle man I could tolerate, maybe even love.

 
Ah...the window...still my favorite place when Mama leaves me all alone.

So one day this other cat shows up
on the radiator right next to mine

 
I watched from a distance and determined
the creature to be non-hostile.

 
Feeling secure, I took a nap, but certainly
not in an affectionate manner.

 
Tentatively, I moved the relationship forward.

 
I don't think it will get any better than this.

Now we live in Florida, and
the guest room is mine...all mine

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 Thanks for the scratch.
I needed that.