She is growing up and learning a lot of cool stuff every day. This morning, I think I saw her dance. Or she may have just been quivering to the abundance of bass coming from Uncle Daniel's stereo system-- which he installed to one-up Kevin's system. We have a lot of sound in our house.
Penny is starting to snuggle. She only does it for a few seconds at a time, but more and more often she rests her head on my shoulder. I love it!
And no one has responded to any of our advertising of our cats. We locked them in the bathroom to keep them away from Penny, and they did all right in there. I liked the idea of their living in the bathroom indefinitely rather than at the Shelter, where the end could be very bleak. They were happy enough. Penny sure did great. After a couple days of their being in the bathroom, her puffy eyes went down, and she stopped her general itching. I guess it was worth it.
I kept putting up signs and thinking of more places to advertise, but it seemed that no one wanted a couple of grown cats.
After a few weeks of this, we noticed that Penny really didn't have any more reactions. Sometimes the cats would sneak out, and it didn't make her whole face pink. Hmmmm....
Then Kevin suggested that she might not be allergic anymore. As unlikely as that seemed, we tried it out-- cautiously at first and then more and more contact. Um, yeah. It turns out that Penny is no longer allergic to our cats.
This is really more than we could have hoped. I mean, about 30 seconds after we picked up our cats, Penny's eyes were red and itchy. Then for the next couple weeks or so, she was red, itchy, and grumpy. This promptly changed when we kept her away from the cats.
I don't know how to explain it. Maybe the cats were covered in dust and pollen, and that is what Penny was reacting to. Maybe she just built up an immunity very quickly. I'm not really sure. But I'm grateful that no one responded to our advertisements, that we didn't go through with sending them to the shelter, and that we have been blessed to be able to keep our cats AND our dancing, snuggling baby.
5 comments:
Joss isn't a snuggler either...sad. Every-so-often she'll lay her head on my shoulder for a moment, but that's it. ENJOY IT!
Thanks for coming to the pool today. It was good to see you!
Penny is so cute. It's amazing that she's almost a year old already! I'm also glad that you get to keep your cats!
Yay! Good job on that immunity bit, Penny!
I love reading abt Penny!!! :0)
Great news! I wish I would magically lose MY animal allergies!! You must be right, she must never have been allergic to them. It was probably a pollen from an Idaho-native plant that was collecting on their fur. Great news!!!
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