Momo (left) and Baby (his sister, right) are Coco and Bianca’s cats. They’re staying with us because the girls can’t have them at home. They’ve been with us since Labor Day.

They’re not used to living with other cats, never mind dogs, so it’s been quite an adjustment. They manage to ignore Kai, because he ignores them, but Chester is harder to ignore, because he wants to play. Baby has made it clear to Chester that he’s not welcome to come closer than about a foot and a half, and she’s intimidated him to the extent that he won’t try to enter the upstairs hall if she’s staked it out. He barks a pathetic bark that means “Come rescue me from Baby”. (She weighs eight pounds to his seventy, by the way.)

However, if he keeps his distance, everything is fine. Both Momo and Baby love to nap with us (actually, on top of us), even if the dogs are present.