The other day (the 24th to be exact), Mere had been with us for a month.

Nikki chases Mere around every day now. It's usually Mere who initiates
the chase by 'tagging' Nikki, but sometimes Nikki just comes out of the
blue and attacks Mere. Mere loves every minute of it, because when Nikki
stops, Mere will go back and tag her to get her playing again. Sometimes
they even wrestle, but Nikki seems to be very careful, because I haven't
found one scratch on Mere to date. It's usually the bigger cat who
stops, I've noticed. When Frank and Nikki wrestle, it usually ends when
Frank lets out a scream. When Nikki and Mere wrestle, it ends when Nikki
hisses.

I've seen Frank steal a few licks at Mere's forehead, but they don't
play the way the girls do.

Mere has taken on the job of keeping my bed safe with admirable gusto.
It seems that I don't have bedmice. No, every night after I've gone to
bed, Mere starts chasing the bed _elephant_*. The beast is several times
larger than her, but she kicks it into submission every night. Brave
girl! She also valiantly chases away the sheet greeblings when I make
the bed. It seems that they get evrywhere, on the bottom sheet, under
the top sheet, under the cover. She's even poked some out from under the
pillows.

*She attacks my legs, my thighs, my hips, and sometimes even my arms.
She bites and bunny-kicks. Luckily her teeth or claws don't reach
through the covers or I would look like a pin cushion all over by now,
instead of just on my back where she jumps up and climbs me.