More Kitty Trouble

Scout, our gray kitty is one curious cat. Here are some pictures from a recent exploration.

 

Luckily, Scout didn't go much further. I keep telling him that "curiosity killed the cat", but I don't think he's worried about that since he still has all 9 lives left. This is the same cat who climbed up into our ceiling last winter.

Missing My Kitties

The kitties are being spayed/neutered today. We dropped them off at the vet yesterday afternoon and we get to pick them up tomorrow morning. It's been strange not having them around. After only 4 months, they have become part of the family.

Because I am missing them so much, I thought I would blog about them. So enjoy these pictures of our kitties.


Here's a cute picture of Kay-C. We've folded Hannah's old pink rug and placed it on the dog's crate. Then we have the kitty bed on top of that.

Here are both of the kitties sleeping on my bed. Notice all of the kitty toys underneath Scout. Both cats, but especially Kay-C, like to carry toys in the mouths. We're always finding different kitty toys on our bed each morning. They carry the toys downstairs to the basement if we're down there. They just drop them on the floor. It's funny to hear the sound of the sticks from their toys hitting each of the wooden steps. 

They were trying to sleep, but I kept taking pictures.

This picture is from January, but it's still cute. I love the variety of positions they sleep in!

I'm not sure if this post helped or not. I'm missing them even more now! In another half hour I can call the vet's office to see how they are doing. And we can pick them up first thing tomorrow morning.

Kitty Trouble

While I was in Las Vegas last weekend, the grey stripped kitty, Scout,  learned a new trick. On Monday, he decided to demonstrate his new trick for me.


He sneaks into an unfinished closet in the basement. We use it for all the cables and wires.  Scout jumps on top of the shelves and climbs up on to the rafters. Then he wanders around on the ceiling.

As he wanders, he mews and mews. Then the other kitty sits on some furniture and mews back. I pushed away some of the ceiling panels in hopes of grabbing him, but he was already gone by the time I moved this one.

Here he is peeking down at me.

We have an old Defender arcade game machine below this tile, so once I left an opening, he made his way down.

After the first incident today, I made sure to shut the closet door. He discovered a new way to get into the closet. So I blocked that opening. He found yet another way up. It's kind of creepy listening to him move around above me while I am sitting at my desk. He made his way up there 3 different times today. What a silly kitty!

Traveling with Kittens

When we drove to Indianapolis in January, we took the kitties with us. Partly to show them off to our Indiana family, and partly because we didn't want to be away from them for that long. Our previous felines did not enjoy traveling, so we were hoping that if we started while these guys were young, we might be successful with it.

We had a large pet carrier that was big enough to fit a small litter box in the back plus have room to accommodate the 2 kittens. The kittens started the trip in the carrier, but once we were on the road, we let them out.

Scout did extremely well on the trip. He seemed to enjoy looking out the window. He slept pretty much the entire trip.

Kay-C, did not do as well. She cried almost non-stop for the first few hours. We joked that we were "Ferberizing" her. (A reference to the Ferber method of letting baby cry itself to sleep.). Kay-C finally fell asleep about 3 or 4 hours into the trip.

One good thing about the drive was that the kittens became friendlier to Snickers. They slept next to her at times and walked over her as needed. Here's a picture of Kay-C sleeping up against Snickers.

Here are a few more pictures from our traveling.


Kay-C perched on top of the pet carrier. This was taken on the trip home. She did much better and only cried a little bit.

Scout slept on a pillow which was on my lap for a long cat nap.

Kay-C sleeping on Hannah's lap. 

New sleeping position.

Scout discovered a sunny spot. 

The jury is still out on whether or not they will be traveling with us on future trips.

Kitten Update

The kittens are doing wonderfully! They have truly become a part of our family. They are about 8 weeks old now.


They wear little collars during the day so we can hear where they are. We take them off in the evening so they don't wake us up with all of the jingling.

 Kay-C is such a sweet little girl!

Scout loves to cuddle.

It is fun watching them play together. We have had more than 1 cat at a time, but we've never had 2 from the same litter before. Our other cats never really played together like these two.

Kay-C made the first move toward befriending Snickers. She approached Snickers and touched noses with her. Scout was slower to approach Snickers, but he is more accepting of our dog. For these pictures, I did put Scout next to Snickers, but he was relaxed and stayed with her for several minutes. On several occassions, Scout has rubbed up against Snickers and has attacked her tail. However, there are still times when he hisses at our sweet dog.

We have a routine of bringing the kittens in to our bedroom each night after we say good-night to James and we lock them in with us until James is asleep. They tend to be in their playful mode when James is trying to fall asleep.

Kittens for Christmas

James & Hannah decided that they wanted kittens for Christmas this year. Our last cat passed away last spring at the old age of 19 human years. Hannah has been asking for a kitten for years. Chris finally conceded, so we told the kids that we would get some kittens. The kids felt that they didn't need or want a lot for Christmas, so they were willing to let the kittens count as a big part of their Christmas presents. After all, pets cost a lot of money.

I also wasn't sure how to go about giving them to the kids. I wasn't sure I liked the idea of them "opening" kittens up on Christmas day either. I started looking online via PetFinder.com for kittens. I wanted a pair, plus I wanted young ones. Chris & I have had 3 cats since we've been married. One was an adult when we acquired her, one was "young", and one was a baby. Baby kittens are a lot of fun, so I decided to look for babies. I even looked on Craigslist for kittens, but the person I contacted never replied. Most of the cats on PetFinder were through assorted Rescue places and were only available for adoption on weekends. All of our weekends for the upcoming month were booked solid, so I wasn't sure when we would be able to find the time to even look. Then a friend of mine mentioned that Animal Control usually has animals to adopt. I called the Paulding County Animal Control which is located in the county next to ours to see if they had any kittens for adoption. They directed me back to PetFinder. I hadn't looked at Paulding County when on PetFinder, so when I went back I saw that they had lots of kittens. Plus, they were open during the week which worked well for me.

When I arrived at Animal Control, they let me go on back to the cat room. There were 3 cages of just itty bitty kitties. Two of the cages had 3 kittens and one had four. They were all absolutely adorable. It was going to be a hard decision. I wanted to adopt them all! I knew Chris wouldn't go for that! I ended up choosing from the cage that had four kittens. I worried that if I took 2 kittens from the cages with 3, then one would be all alone.

Hannah was so ecstatic when she got home. She kept saying over and over how she couldn't believe that we actually had kittens. James was at a band function and didn't get home until 9pm. I sent him text messages with some pictures of the kittens so he wouldn't have to wait to learn about them.

It's been 4 days now and they have adjusted to our house fairly well. They do not care for Snickers, but Snickers has been great with them. She hasn't even barked at them. Each day we've noticed that they are hissing and growling a little bit less toward the dog. One even approached Snickers yesterday and sniffed noses. Then she backed up and hissed, but it's progress.

Here is one of the pictures I texted James on the first day we got them. The gray one has been named Scout and he has been nicknamed "Sir Purrs A Lot". The black and white one is named Kay-C which stands for Kitty Cat.



Here is Kay-C. She looks a lot like our old cat, Izzy.

And here is Scout.