Mrs. Oz

This is Mrs. OZ, Mrs. Hissy OhneZahn. She came to us - as Rita - a couple of weeks after Anastasia vanished because she was in need of a different home than she lived in and with Anastasia gone we could take another cat in. Anastasia would have made minced meat out of any cat trying to come here... I think the staff thought she could be a companion for me because I felt very lonely without my Anastasia but Mrs. OZ is not a companion cat! The first week she stayed in the space in the ceiling (the staff occupies a VERY old house) and when she encountered me she just hissed. I did not hiss back, I have manners! When she started to spend a bit more time outside the ceiling Emil arrived. Back into the ceiling for another week! And she kept hissing and hissing. At both of us. Hence "Hissy". She also does not have upper canines, we do not know what happened, only that she came like that from the Humane Society many years ago. Hence "OhneZahn" which is German and literally translates "WithoutTooth". She is a very particular cat. She likes to stay by herself and she does not go outside, only to the bottom of the stairs. She does manage to catch little insects there and brings them inside, CRYING loudly for acknowledgment of her superior hunting skills! Emil adores her and does not stop trying to play with her. She does not stop hissing at him. It's a weird relationship! When he comes in (Mrs. OZ mainly stays in the maids place upstairs, Emil mostly sleeps at the butler's place downstairs and comes up in the morning) Mrs. OZ first runs up into the ceiling, just to come back down again almost immediately and approach him until he starts trying to play with her which then makes her able to hiss at him.... I keep out of it!!!! She's a weird one! -Karl