First time entering the Deranged Photography Contest
I've seen the contest before and I enjoyed checking some entries as well, but I never decided to enter myself. Why? Simply because I feel my phone camera is not good enough to capture things the way I'd like them to be. Although I hope in a while, I will be able to buy a camera, for now, phone shots is what I can offer. Of course, I'm not competing in the pro tier anyway, so even if I won't win, it will be nice to share our new family member this week. It's been just two weeks since he joined us after we caught him just around the corner where he was living on the streets with his siblings.
Cat TV all day
Now we have to admit that since Mojo arrived, we watched a lot of "cat tv". The first days this meant we mainly watched Mojo under the tv closet and being very scared when coming out to get food and water. During the night, a lot of meowing happened, thankfully, this lasted just 3 nights before slowly he started to feel more comfortable inside and not wanting to break out through the windows. Once this was going better, slowly he started to explore the living room more and sometimes would lay on the dining chair to overview the whole room. This was an improvement because he didn't have to be scared constantly when hearing something and we just love watching him, so this was ideal for everyone. We knew it could take time before we make real friends as this was not a domestic cat until we brought him home.
Playful
Last week, he suddenly started to play a lot. We bought two sticks for him to activate play mode, one with feathers and one with a pink mouse. At first, there was 0 interest for these, paper balls made from receipts were the way to go and he'd chase through the whole room like a crazy cat to play football with them. In response to his playful moods, we donated all the receipts we had and at some point there must have been 15 of them under the couch when he wasn't able to grab them anymore. All for a good cause: making friends with our new family member.
Totally comfortable
Although until a few days ago, we had not seen Mojo sleeping on his back yet, we were happy to see him sleeping on the scratching pole that is a very vulnerable position if not feeling safe here as it's in the middle of the room. First he started sleeping on top of the toy with purple feathers, and at some point he was totally comfortable to start sleeping upside down and was not even spooked when someone came close to take pictures.
I decided to use one of these pictures to enter this week's contest as this day was one with milestones. We are making big progress here every day and I'm confident we will all be great friends in a while.
Taken with my Huawei Pro 30.