Mungo Jerrie

We have had a new addition to the family. Meet Mungo Jerrie (from Cats the Musical), a 3-6 year old, neutered male. His background is not known as he came to the rescue centre 3 months ago, very frightened and not liking people or other cats very much.

He was named Spit by his foster mum as he was always spitting and hissing and everyone. She gradually tamed him into the mellow softie as he is now. Unfortunately, about a month ago, he almost died. He somehow managed to contract cat flu and had to be drip fed every couple of hours. He now appears to be fully recovered.

His ordeal has not suppressed his appetite, though as he his a very big boy and does like his food a lot. He loves salmon in jelly but likes most foods almost as much.

He can be quite mardy at times and wanting to be fussed, yet suddenly become very grumpy and aggressive. I don’t know if that is something to do with his past, but I suppose we have to learn to live with it.

He is not particularly playful, however, he is immensely sweet & friendly and could quite happily sit on your lap all day long, as long as you don’t tickle his feet.

So far he has not been in the slightest bit interested in sleeping in Macavity’s cot but just wants to sleep with us in our bed. He is the smallest out of us but he takes up most of the room, by lying sideways or diagonally across the bed.

We are training him to use a harness so that we can take him camping in summer, just like we used to do with Macavity. However, this is going to be a slow task as at the moment he is terrified of the cat box and we will need him to go in and stay there happily for this to work. I shall keep you updated on this progress.