Humphrey update

We’re seeing less and less of Humphrey now.  Since we’ve had him, he’s been an outdoor cat mostly.  During the week when it was hissing down with rain we couldn’t entice him in.

Maybe it comes from his early life about which we know nothing, but he can be very fidgety inside.  For the first few weeks after we officially adopted him, we had to feed him outside because he was too wary to come into the kitchen.  And during the summer, apart from him appearing for meals we can go for hours without a sighting.

He does like it when we’re in the garden though especially if we’re moving about.   He has a game he plays with us.  Not in a nasty way because I don’t think he has a nasty bone in his body, but he likes coming up behind us and nipping our legs.  Which is fine if you have thick trousers on in the winter but not so great on bare legs!

Still he doesn’t dig his teeth in which is a mercy.  Now if it was Portia, she would dig in and mean it.  I once got blood poisoning in my thumb because she bit me.  Since that event she’s been banned from sitting on laps.

We always give people a health warning about her when they visit.  She’s beautiful, and loves visitors, especially men.  But her favourite trick is to rub round your legs then bite the hand you put out to her.

More next week.