Famous last words

It's said that it's easy to find ourselves doing the very things we said we would never do. Well, I always said I would never have a long haired cat, because I didn't want to have to brush it every day and clean up hairs in the house. But, as the hotter weather has arrived here in Spain, all three cats are losing hair and we keep finding balls of it all over the house; I vacuum up at least as much hair every day as we used to have in Cape Town with two border collies. Most of it, though, seems to come from Teddi, who has grown into a very big, fluffy boy. (Last week, at the vet's, he weighed in at more than fourteen pounds!) And yes, you've guessed it! This week I had to go out and buy a new brush - in the hope that I can gather more hair in the brush and less hair in the vacuum cleaner. And so here I am, doing what I thought I'd never do: brushing a big fluffy cat every day. Fortunately, Teddi has always enjoyed being brushed, and so he obligingly rolls over from side to side until I've brushed away most of the undercoat that he's shedding for the summer. Tamba and Tobi enjoy being brushed too, but don't seem to be producing quite as much hair as Teddi. Hopefully this will only be for another few weeks, until they've finished shedding their winter coats.