{"id":19364,"date":"2024-08-07T21:56:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19364"},"modified":"2024-08-07T21:56:52","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:56:52","slug":"daily_3448_-_gone_is_the_cuddly_morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/08\/07\/daily_3448_-_gone_is_the_cuddly_morris\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3448 &#8211; gone is the cuddly Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3448_Morris_hangry.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nMorris, who used to come into our home and be friendly and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/01\/14\/daily_2547_-_cat_yawn\/\">take naps<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/11\/06\/daily_2480_-_the_cat_is_getting_comfortable\/\">cuddle<\/a>, now only comes here looking for food. He peeks in, walks to Nysse&#8217;s food station in the kitchen, eats Nysse&#8217;s kibble if he finds any, and walks out. All the while avoiding contact with all of us.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve taken to covering Nysse&#8217;s food bowl whenever he leaves some food for later, so Morris can&#8217;t steal it. Nysse always &#8220;asks&#8221; when he wants food, so we just take the cover off then.<\/p>\n<p>First we used an upside-down plate, but the smell of kibble was enough for Morris to try and scrape that plate away. Then we switched to an upside-down bowl that not as easy to slide to the side. I got the impression that Morris actually got angry with the cover when he couldn&#8217;t remove it &#8211; he dug his claws into the rubber mat quite aggressively.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not at all interested in the cat tuna in the bowl next to it. Nysse also clearly prefers the kibble, but does eat the tuna when he gets hungry for real between meals and not just &#8220;hey, wouldn&#8217;t some kibble taste lovely right now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the friendly, cuddly version of Morris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morris, who used to come into our home and be friendly and take naps and cuddle, now only comes here looking for food. He peeks in, walks to Nysse&#8217;s food station in the kitchen, eats Nysse&#8217;s kibble if he finds any, and walks out. All the while avoiding contact with all of us. We&#8217;ve taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,778,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-nystagmus","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19364"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19368,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19364\/revisions\/19368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}