This time last year our lovely Periwinkle (my inherited Siamese) sadly passed away,he was my Nanny's cat and was in a bad way when we first got him on 16th August 2009. He had a good couple of years with us, so there was a big gap when he had gone. So, about a month later I wasn't surprised when Mr B started looking at cats on the Internet!
Suddenly up popped a post on Gumtree with a photo of a Siamese cat that looked a bit like Periwinkle . She was an unwanted pet that lived with about 6 other cats and a rather shabby Collie dog. She definitely needed to come and join the Chiffon Queen household straight away!
A skinny loud sleek Siamese was placed in a cat basket and a name was chosen for her as we headed for home. Her previous owner had called her Ena... A most inappropriate name for such a regal animal,but cats know their name, (we were told she was 6 years old), so a name had to be choose that she would instantly recognize, Sheena it was.
Sheena was immediately greeted by our Staff cross, Milligan and they instantly became BBF's!
Our two other cats took a bit longer to come round to the new arrival. Mr.T, our big ginger boy was petrified, as Sheena was of him, and it took him a month to get used to the fact that the loud Siamese was here to stay!
Sheena made her home under the stairs for the first few weeks, and then gradually integrated to sleeping with us in our bed! There was barely room for us all as often a rather large dog and occasionally big ginger boy would also join in!
Funny girl Sheena it was soon discovered was more like a dog, she could fetch a small ball of wool and drop it at our feet, she was even more interested in a screwed up piece of paper, and the noise she makes carrying the paper is hilarious.
