Aby-a-Day – 15 Mars: Remembering Logan in Finland (Friday Flashback)

I have been thinking a lot about Logan recently. I suppose it’s only natural; his birthday was last Saturday, and this is the month before we found out about his FIP. I guess March is going to be hard for a while. But this is a memory that always makes me smile.

When we took Logan to Finland for a show, Logan discovered the heated bathroom floor.

He loved it!

He was always a little less stocky than Izaak is.

It was so funny to watch him rolling on the warm, but hard, floor. He was like, “What is this sorcery!?”

Have you ever seen a happier little cat?

He really loved it.

When we couldn’t find Logan anywhere else in the room, we knew he had to be there on the bathroom floor. He even slept in there instead of on the bed or the chair!

We haven’t stayed in a hotel with heated floor since then with any cat. I was looking forward to seeing what Logan would do when we encountered one again; now I’m just wondering if Lorelai and Zak will have the same reaction.

Aby-a-Day – 8 Mars: Logan’s only birthday (Friday Flashback)

Tomorrow would have been Logan’s second birthday. Sadly, he only had one birthday, just like Gun-Hee.

This was me and Gun-Hee with his first birthday “cake,” twelve years ago. My, how things have changed since then!

Unlike Izaak, Logan had no fear of his lit candle.

Logan looks so much smaller than Zak, too.

Logan’s birthday toy was a little ladybug that still sits atop our microwave. Unlike Zak and his furry mousies, Logan liked shiny toys.

Kalle’s birthday is on the 7th, and Björn’s is on the 10th of March, so Logan having his birthday on the 9th meant we had a “birthday bunch” and we saw it as one of the signs that we were meant to get Logan. Whilst I am happy we have Zak, who makes me laugh every day, I still miss the first Singapura I loved.

Aby-a-Day – 1 Mars: So alike…yet so very different (Friday Flashback)

Izaak is so very different from Logan in so many ways. But they look so similar. Logan’s eyes were a bit more green, and Zak has a stockier build, but it’s hard to tell them apart in photos. In some pictures, I can only tell them apart by looking at their collars, and, of course, the date the photo was taken.

But their personalities and mannerisms are so different.

One major difference between Logan and Zak is Logan was a climber. He loved to go up on top of things: the cat tree, the hallway coat rack, the top of the bookshelf in the kitten room. And the tiny ledge on top of the refrigerator.

That’s a hard ledge to get up onto, let alone stay on!

Much harder than just sitting on top of the fridge door!

Another difference between Zak and Logan is that Logan was extremely fastidious. He hated to be “dirty” and would stop to groom anywhere, anytime. You may remember what happened when Logan got his Suprelorin implant as opposed to when Zak got his.

Even on the ledge of the fridge.

Logan was such a climber. He was so athletic.

He loved to be as high as he could.

Meanwhile…Zak “The Sausage” Hellqvist can barely jump up onto the counter.

And he is incredibly food-oriented, which Logan was not…but he’s also an extremely picky eater. I have never seen a cat who didn’t like dry food (it’s considered a special treat in our house), but Zak won’t touch it. He doesn’t even seem to recognise it as food. It makes cat shows challenging, to say the least.

I wish they could have known each other. It would have been interesting to see them interact. But of course, if Logan hadn’t gotten FIP we wouldn’t have Izaak. But it would have been interesting to see them together.

Aby-a-Day – 22 Februari: Brothers from another mother…and the little step brother who could (Friday Flashback)

I always think about Alfred and his “Brother from Another Mother,” Logan.

These photos are from July 2017, a month after we introduced Logan to Freddy.

They bonded after only a couple of days.

But their bond was deep. I called them “Brothers from Another Mother.” But they really were.

I mean, just look at them!

Logan and Freddy were so attached to each other.

They were so in sync with each other, too. You can see how bonded they were from these photos, taken only a month after we introduced them.

One thing Freddy liked to do was hold Logan down to groom him.

Whilst Izaak is not Logan, and it’s taken Freddy some time to accept Zak…

…it seems that Freddy needs a Singapura brother to take care of and look after.

It’s not the extreme “brothers from another mother” love that Freddy had with Logan, but…

…Zak seems to be an acceptable surrogate for Freddy’s Singapura fixation.

At least, until Zak has had enough of Freddy’s “brotherly” love.

I guess that’s the difference between Logan and Zak…Logan grew up with Big Brother Freddy, and Zak…didn’t. But he tolerates Freddy’s attention well. Enough.

Aby-a-Day – 8 Februari: When Emma first met Angel and Jacoby (Friday Flashback)

Emma first met Jacoby and Angel when she came here to celebrate her sixth birthday in 2016, a month after I moved here.

Emma, of course, fell in love with Jake.

I mean, why wouldn’t she? He is such a charmer.

She was mesmerised by him.

Angel is always a tougher nut to crack…but Emma loved her, too.

She went to pet Angel, and Angel didn’t run away, which is something for Angel.

Angel was so sweet with Emma. It’s like she knew how much Emma loves cats and let her love on her.

Björn loves it when she comes to visit, even if she says she’s going to see “cats…and Pappa and Kalle.”

What does Jake think about Emma coming to visit us?

He’s definitely a fan!

Aby-a-Day: Photobooth memories (Friday Flashback)

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since we took Logan to the cat show in Örebro. We are going with Lorelai and Izaak to that same show next weekend. I wonder if the Agria photobooth will be there again this year?

We had SO much fun taking photos with Logan!

Not only is Agria a veterinary health insurance company, they are our insurance company, and when Logan got sick with FIP, they handled everything. It made a horrific time a little less horrific.

We were extremely lucky to have been benched right next to where the photobooth was set up. If you know cat shows, you know that it’s hard to go across a show hall to do things. The things that are close to you are the easiest things to do. Since we could see when the booth was free, it was easy for us to take Logan up for photos.

I hope they have it this year…I want to take photos with Rory and Zak!

Aby-a-Day – 11 Januari: 12 years ago this week…(Friday Flashback)

12 years ago this week, on 7 January 2007, I posted about Gun-Hee’s first visit to Petco.

He was quite impressed with the mice.

The birds…not so much.

Those were always more Tessie’s thing.

And Jacoby’s, too.

I’m just glad that nobody tried to buy him for $3.99, though!