Cody, FDJ's Clone Trooper Fosters

21/06/2025

Happy 10th Birthday Cody and his Clone Trooper siblings (Rex Darkpaws, Keeli, Oatmeal and Maze)!

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07/05/2025

So I realize that most of the pictures I have posted lately are of Rocket and/or Merlin. The truth is, getting pictures of Cody is just a bit difficult and would nearly all be the same, these days. We are pretty sure Cody is, if not completely blind, has very limited vision these days. Maybe dark shapes but that's about it. He gets around fine for the most part but every now and then he clips a corner, shorts a jump (difficulty making jumps has gotten worse the past 4 months). We still use "baby/pet" gates to keep Merlin out of certain areas, one being our bedroom upstairs. The gate we use is halfway down the hall and it has a cat-sized opening (we use the same type of gate to keep Merlin out of the living room/dining room area where the largest cat tree is set up in front of the living room window). Cody bumps the side of the the opening a couple times a week. He also has bumped smack into Merlin. Merlin play chases Rocket at times and he used to try to with Cody but he's stopped, like he knows Cody can't play like that. He's been thoroughly checked out by his vet and tests were run to see if there is an underlying issue that has caused the loss of sight. There's no cloudiness to his eyes but his pupils hardly dilate much unless he's right by and looking straight at my desk lamp. His health is fine, he just can't see, so we are trying to not move furniture or leave things like boxes out, in his way. I'm not sure Cody even thinks about not being able to see going by the way he still tries to jump from my desk to the floor, or to a chair, or from the floor to the little table his bed is on near my desk. He only really started to use the pet steps I got him in the past few months and he still leaps off the table or desk down to the floor more often than not (he does use it most of the time to get up). He does spend a LOT more time snoozing in one of the 3 beds I have near or on my desk. Yes, 2 cats and we have to have 3 beds, no sense to that. The "silver lining" is that Cody wants to be around people a lot more. He's always liked being in the same room with people, even when we've had guests over. He's never liked being held but he's always enjoyed attention, being talked to and petted, as long as his feet don't leave the ground and he's not restrained. The sad part is that he does, at times, become confused and will sing the song of his people loudly and rather heart-breakingly and wants me to call out to him. I'm not sure if it's confusion like senility or that he can't tell where I'm at and he's like in the living room. He never does it while we are both in the same room and usually not when he's in the family room (where my desk is). He also really does not trust Rocket and Rocket can be quite a brat so that distrust is not misplaced.

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07/05/2025

When your cat matches his pillow, err, dog

24/04/2025

When your dog and cat match each other.

27/12/2024

Good thing Rocket's so dang cute because he is such a butthead. Not content with taking Cody's favorite heated bed, he has to take BOTH heated beds near my desk.

12/09/2024

Happy Gotchaversary Cody & the Clones!

23/08/2024

Merlin is such a weird dog. We know he's got herding breeds in his make-up but instead of trying to "herd" me around, he stops me from going somewhere. He will stand across the hall and lean his hip into my knees, blocking my path forward. He does this especially if there's someone at the door (he hears my Ring camera alert on my phone), including if it's my husband. This dog doesn't usually bark at someone ringing the doorbell, or walking the path along our fence, but he seems to get pretty protective at times. The other day he was laying across the top of our stairs and rolled, and kept rolling down the stairs (which scared me, worried he'd be hurt). He landed on the landing, jumped to his feet and dashed up the stairs to lean so hard against the front of my legs that he pushed be backwards a couple of steps. Evidently he was protecting me from the evil stairs that had just pulled him down half a flight.

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14/08/2024

Cody has the weirdest sleeping positions.

21/06/2024

Happy Birthday Cody and the Clones! Nine years!?! Where has the time gone?

04/05/2024

So I've always been told that wild bunnies (at least the ones we have here in Western Washington) are pretty "fragile" in that they can die from being scared. I've always walked very carefully when there's a bunny in our yard, talking quietly so it knows a human is there and so it can choose to leave without it panicking and dropping dead from basically a heart attack. I'm not sure I believe that anymore, not when it comes to the bunnies in my yard. These aren't bunnies, they are cats with stubby fluffy tails and long ears. They have attitude.

When we had Indy, he ignored the bunnies, I think he thought they were just a funny looking cat. Because he left them alone we had a few that lived either in our yard or just outside our fence but would spend hours in our yard. They even learned that I wasn't going to go after them so as long as Indy or I stayed about 10 feet away, the bunnies would sit there, munch on the lawn, lay fully splooted or loafed in the sun. Enter Merlin. Merlin has mostly herding breeds in his dna, along with some hound. He sees bunnies as friends that want to play chase. I've tried to stop him but that's been a lesson in futility. It's sort of okay though because these bunnies TAUNT him. Ya, no, these bunnies are not the "oh no a big predator is trying to eat me" type. These are full-on catitude, let's taunt and mock the dog type. Scenario: I see Merlin at the glass sliding door looking out. I look out and see 2 bunnies munching grass, about 6 feet off the patio. I let Merlin out who carefully tries to stalk those "wascally wabbits". Merlin steps onto the patio and takes a couple of steps towards the bunnies' direction, cue the Old Western gunslinger music and roll in the tumbleweed. Bunny one breaks first and runs for the fence but slows down just before going under, as if to give Merlin a feeling of "so close". Bunny 2 is still munching his dinner, watching Merlin, keeping an eye on me spectating. Merlin changes direction and takes a few slow-motion steps. Gets about 6 feet from Bunny 2 who does not take the direct, closest route under the fence (he was about 2 feet from the fence) but no, he runs along the fence, pauses a moment to let Merlin catch up a bit and when Merlin is less than 4 feet away, he ducks under the fence but again pauses with just his bunny rump and puff ball tail on our side of the fence. I'm not sure if maybe that was a bunny version of a "moon" or a "finger" or maybe he thought he'd mule-kick Merlin in the snout but there was definitely some taunting going on. This goes on daily... thank you bunnies for providing entertainment for me and exercise for Merlin. Just keep close to our yard so the bobcats don't get you because you are no match for true catitude!

23/04/2024

Happy 1st Gotchaversary Merlin! Cody and Rocket are still not fans of his, one year later 😕

13/03/2024

Cody and Rocket are getting along much better now that Edge has moved out. Rocket had been making moves to try and climb into the heated bed on my desk for a while now (Edge moved out a few weeks ago) but Cody would glare at him and if Rocket persisted, Cody would leave and let Rocket have the bed. Yesterday, Rocket climbed in and Cody didn't bother to really wake up right away until Rocket had squished his way into the bed, on top of Cody. They stayed this way for 20 minutes or more until I got up to head upstairs to bed and neither cat dozed off during that time. Cody is still pretty leery of Rocket but Rocket hasn't made any moves to actually bully/go after Cody except for maybe trying to get him to leave this bed, or maybe he just wants to share.