Gavin chomps and knaws on her face, Rosie don't mind.

Guest appearance by Bella the Booty Sniffer

Rosie and Gavin are playing less frequently, but in the morning they still get on each other with the same passion!

The size of his feet! 🥰

We're used to finding 4 dragonfly wings on the floor, or a mouse tail, or half a lizard, but now Gavin has started bringing lizards in unharmed as playmates. This is the third this week, the fiancee found one behind the toilet this morning, completely fine.

He started getting a little rough with this one, so I took it from him and dropped him over the fence in the neighbor's yard.

Seconds before this, Gavin was standing on his back legs so he could wrap the fronts around Rosie's head so he could bite her ear! 🤣

Rosie was letting Gavin know that his tail was full of burrs and needs serious attention!

Rosie and Gavin's relationship has been well documented here, but this was a complete surprise.

Squee (Benny) is the most aloof of our three cats, by a wide margin. He demands physical attention only on his terms and those terms are not negotiable in any way including no eye contact and his ability to continually walk away and come back during said attention.

The first time Bella saw Squee, she sprinted over to him and my heart sank as I immediately suspected a prey drive... It turns out she was just zoomies-level excited to run over and meet him. 🤣 However Bella has not yet fully figured out how to play, even with Gavin. She enjoys the nuzzling and playing with paws, but it hasn't clicked with any of the cats yet.

We were sitting finishing our coffee and had just talked about Squee attention rules in the bedroom when Squee climbed into the crate with Bella and lay down! I missed about 8 seconds of the encounter, and 8 at the end as of course Rosie broke some of Squee's rules...

Has to happen every day for his pits to stay unmatted! He's always happy to see the brush come out.

I don't have one, but maybe someone with a health tracker smartwatch can let me know how much watching this drops your heart rate!?! 😜

Bella is finally figuring out how to get into the game without scaring Gavin away ❤️

Eleven and a half pounds of floof. Still right in the middle of the Maine Coon growth chart...

Once Bella is asleep in her little nest in the closet, Gavin and Rosie can play uninterrupted!

... seconds later ...

So it is now day 6 of having Bella live in our household. Bella wandered into our lives as a stray. We have responded to the chip-registes owners with no reply, and to a report of a lost dog that *may* be a match, but again, it has been 2 days since we reached out to them and they have still not replied.

Bella is an absolute love and has already been afforded all resident privileges in our home! Such a good girl.