The real boss of our house.

Take a look at the real boss of the Barone household. He is 16 years old and bosses everyone in the house. He has been with me since I was a junior in college and has never left my side. If he could talk he would tell you all my secrets  but he is loyal or smart enough to know if I don't treat him well he would gladly find a way to divulge all of my secrets. 

Puffball was the first one that my husband had to win over. If puffball didn't like him I would have said goodbye to Fabio but thankfully puffball fell in love with my husband just as soon as I did. It was important to me that puffball love my husband and vice versa. Then came my first born Lucas. Everyone thought puffball would have a hard time with sharing mommy so I made sure not to exclude him ever and to still leave time for cuddling with my Puffball. At bed time I would feed Lucas and then put him in the crib, then I would rock puffball and put him in his own little bed it was an extra bouncy seat I had. I made sure that Puffball felt that he was my baby too and he felt it for sure. Puffball quickly would know the bedtime routine and would stay in his bouncy seat until I went to bed and then he would come and sleep with us in our bed. People who didn't know me, my husband or Puffball thought I was being silly or crazy for giving so much attention to a cat but the thing was they didn't know us. People who knew me, knew my love and respect for any living thing and those who knew my husband knew that about him too. Those who knew Puffball  knew how important we were to each other and how close we have been through out the years. Puffball and Lucas soon fell in love too. Then Noah came. I didn't have to do the same routine with Puffball when Noah came, he knew now that Noah was a baby and needed the attention. He began spending more time with Lucas and Fabio but still every night until today he waits for me in my room to drink water out of the sink and wait for some me and puffball time. Now our third baby is coming and although Puffball is now 16 years old I pray that he lasts a few more years so our third can have some memories of our special Puffball. 

Anyone who has ever met Puffball has fallen in love with him. Not only is he such a handsome guy but he is also so sweet. To this day, he has never bitten me or the children or even scratched them. He is gentle with them even when Noah is hugging him super tight. He is sweet but also stubborn. Puffball does not tolerate messes. If at the end of the day when we all go to bed there is any piles of toys or shoes or any piles of anything he will pee on it. We have had to throw toys, shoes and other things away because of Him. He hates messes, it keeps the kids in line because they know at the end of the day they have to clean up their toys or Puffball will pee on them and they will be thrown out. We have seen Puffball inspect the house at night going to each room and even sits in the corner of the room when the kids are cleaning up to make sure they are doing a good job.  If I am mean to him, don't give him love, ignore him or plainly don't feed him when he asks he will pee on something of mine. When I was younger and would have to go away to work, my mom would say if I was gone longer than two weeks Puffball would get into my closet and take all my clothes off the hanger and all of my clothes off the drawer. That's the way he lets everyone know he was mad that I was gone. 

Puffball doesn't do that anymore, maybe because I don't go away much. But when I have gone away for work he is fine with it, I think now because he has Fabio and the boys or he is too old to care. 

Puffball is very strict about how he wants his home to be and everyone to behave. If we are yelling at the boys or the boys are fighting he intervenes with his constants meows. Its like he's telling usor whoever  is arguing to stop. He hates arguing. 

I always say that I will have to be hospitalized the day that Puffball leaves me. I can't imagine that day so until then he can be the boss of our house. We wouldn't have it any other way.