Our Lily is afraid of sheep. She HATES them.Yes, our cat has come with us to New Zealand. We probably wouldn't have put her through the trauma of travelling if we'd known that we were only going to stay for a month, but she's been a real trooper with all the changes. She's OK with the cold and rain here - only she does sometimes wake us up ridiculously early needing to be let outside, only to come skulking back in a very short time later. She then burrows back into the bed with us - fur and paws all damp and cold. She's become an exemplary snuggler and a champion heater-hogger.
The only time I've seen her really up in arms was today when our neighbourhood sheep moved into a paddock really close to our house. Lil glimpsed them through the fence and got scared; she let out a low moan like wind through an old farmhouse and scampered quickly up onto the microwave. Obviously we shouldn't let her do that, but (a) none of her training seems to have come with her from Townsville and (b) she's got to have at least one high safe place from where she can keep an eye on those woolly bastards next door. I don't know what she thinks they might do to her.
