He’s A Feline.

Truman says, “the middle of the dining room floor will be just fine”.

Chris took this photo during lunch this past week. While Truman may strike a cute pose from time to time, there can be an occasionally menacing look in his eyes.

He’s so cute.

Truman has become quite persistent in making sure puppies Lucky and Jinx stay out of my office. He’s fairly friendly to them until they start sniffing around my door. Then the growls and occasional hisses start and the puppies are confused.

Truman is handling Lucky and Jinx fairly well. He spends a lot of time up where he can watch things for a strategic vantage point. He then pretends he doesn’t care and looks out the window.

Truman finds it easy to keep an eye on the puppies running around inside the house and the activity outside of the house from his favorite vantage point.

It’s very rare that I get a napping companion situated this close to me.

Truman has been such a good sport about the new puppies in the house, I thought he deserved an extra Caturday post on his behalf.

As I’ve mentioned before, Truman isn’t a cuddler. He doesn’t want to lay on my chest, he doesn’t want to snuggle in between Earl and me for our nighttime slumber, he wants to be close but we can’t cuddle. He’s not even super excited about being held for more than 60 seconds.

However, he does show his love by stationing himself near us at any given time of the day. When I’m working and Earl is doing chores around our bedroom suite or elsewhere in the house, Truman stations himself to keep an eye on everything. When I go to bed at night, he has designed a spot in my closet as his sleeping area. I don’t know how long he stays there as I usually fall asleep and make it through most of the night. But he’ll get himself situated next to the pillow I’ve thrown down there for him and look in my direction until I fall asleep. The photo looks incredibly bright but the lights were actually quite dim; we can thank Apple for the enhancement of the photo.

It’s comforting to know that my feline friend cares enough to make sure I’m well situated for a good night’s sleep.

Truman is relaxing in front of one of the windows in our bedroom keeping an eye on the local wildlife. His casual approach to observation has extended to the puppies as well; there’s been no hisses or signs of aggression, just a few rumbly growls worthy of a male cat.

Truman was kind enough to let me know where the hose and accessories for the central vacuum system is stored. Mind you, he didn’t offer to clean, but he did offer to help.

Truman insists on getting situated on the highest perch available in the house to see what’s going on with these two puppies that are now part of the household. I don’t like him getting up there as it seems awfully tippy, so we’re buying him a cat tree that will provide a larger and safer platform affording the same views that he enjoys from his little perch.

Meanwhile, all that use four legs seem to be getting to know each other. There have been no hisses from the long term resident, but there have been a couple of growls. Truman maintains his distance and dominance. We’ve re-installed the gate that was at our bedroom area when we bought the house; Truman can jump over it but the puppies can not.

This works out well for the feline.