Smudge has increasingly been friendly since Smidge disappeared. Now every day when I go out to feed him he greets me with a meow and then he rubs up against my legs and lets me stroke him and rubs up against my hand with his cheek and head. A few times he has actually come up to me when I haven't got food and we have a stroking session. A couple of times he has actually rolled over onto his back exposing his tummy, like Smidge used to do but when I have moved my hand to tickle him he has got frightened and got up straight away and sat with his back to me as if to say that wasn't me. I didn't want tickling.
Today, we had a stroking session and he was actually purring. That is the first time I have ever heard him purr, in 3 1/2 years, since I first started feeding him.
