Hah! He thinks he's people!

Eating seared ahi from Blue Water Grill.  He's not spoiled or anything.

Initially, I was very opposed to giving Oliver any "people food", but we quickly broke that barrier.  He tried to eat Rowdy's breakfast burrito the first morning he was allowed out and about in our house.  He's since had fried egg, cooked ground turkey and hamburger, deli turkey, edamame, ahi, corn, rice and broccoli.  He likes to play with his food and bat it around sometimes, but the ahi he gobbled up from my fingers.  Who wouldn't??

He was so funny with the steamed broccoli.  He would only play with it, and ended up knocking it under the couch.  Even funnier was when my husband said to him (with only a little irony), "Do you want Daddy to get that for you?"

Oliver is also quite the music aficionado.  He doesn't like classical music, but he likes rap.  The sudden change in tempo and the loudness of symphonic music isn't something he likes.  However, I am listening to Yo Yo Ma right now, and he's tolerating it.

A site for my cat, because I don't want to look like a crazy cat person on my other blogs

Mr. Oliver Hammond

The purpose of this blog is to be safety valve of a sort, to keep posts about my cat from overwhelming my personal blog.

Mr. Oliver Hammond, my very first pet, joined our household three days ago.  We adopted him from the Humane Society.  Our original plan was to adopt the Russian Blue who shared the kitten room with Oliver and five other kittens.  Sadly, Seymour was not interactive at all, and he flunked his audition.  Oliver was playful, sweet and charming, so he came home with us.

Oliver has been such a great cat.  He is affectionate, playful, and obedient.  He adjusted well to our home, after spending a day and a half in our powder room getting acclimated.  He hasn't clawed the furniture, and he stopped trying to claw at the curtains immediately when we told him "No!"

I can't think of a better first pet.  He is such a sweetheart.