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Regarding the penultimate video (30 October): Whenever the bloke goes away, Astro goes into a heightened state of alertness. He comes into the front room every evening to inspect the adult humans. If he finds me alone, he will go and sit on the mat by the front door. He curls up and faces me with his ears back, half-closes his eyes, and stays there until I go to bed. He follows me upstairs and curls up on the landing. I don't know if he stays there all night, but I often find him there when I get up in the morning.
If he sees both of us in the front room, he will come and stand on me for a short while, make biscuits on my legs, and then transfer to the bloke's lap, where he rolls onto his back and flops out blissfully. It's as if he can't relax completely if Alpha Cat isn't present.
Comet, on the other hand, couldn't care less about us in the evening. He's only interested if Humuhumu is around and has left her door open so he can sleep on her bed. When she isn't here, he walks around the landing and gives occasional plaintive yowls.
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Freya cat is also a guard cat, although in her case this involves following us to the park if we go out without a full complement of adults to children and complaining bitterly until we go home.
She also lurks pointedly on the stairs if there are some people up and others down.
Guarding duties are apparently handed over to TL2 when I go to bed because she follows me up and sleeps on our windowsill.
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The lurking on the stairs! Yes! Astro does this too. He particularly likes to sit squarely in the middle (vertically and horizontally) whenever he can see everyone from there. I think it's to try and corral us.
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Looks like, st least from this, the children are getting along nicely and enjoying hobbies and work together.