theo: Cats

New torture method

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:49:23 GMT

I can't believe no one's ever used it before as my ears are almost bleeding and I'm ready to say anything, but having a very loud purring kitten by each ear, slightly out of sync with each other is a killer!

Spitfire & Tanglefoot - Weeks 13 & 14

Mon, 02 Jan 2006 13:23:13 GMT

Dear kittens,

You've had so meny new experiences these last two weeks and been amazingly calm about the whole thing; I can't believe my sofas and curtains are still in one piece!

The suprises started with your first visit to the vets; of minor importance was the fact that you're both male and both had cat flue at the time, but the amazing part was how calm and relaxed you were through the whole thing and how you were quite happy being driven around the countryside and watch what was flying past. I'd expected you to be hissing spitting bundles of nightmare; but no, calm & tranquil with a quick growl at the odd dog sat next to you in the waiting room was all you could be bothered with!

So then I had to stick drops in your eyes, and medicine in your food... and you just took it and felt better... no fuss, no biting or hissing & only one scratch when I picked Spitfire up unexpectedly. A few days later you had your injections, and after a taste of buffalo milk turned into the cutest little fluff balls, determined to lick my hands completely off if you could.

As you were starting to try and climb the walls, it was time to see how you faired outside. Having spent the first 11 weeks of your life in a stable yard with only a shed for shelter, I thought you'd scarper as soon as the door was left open, but it was a whole new experience with all the new smells of my garden, followed by snow and rain and lots of fun pushing each other into the wet bushes!

And only one escape attempt which almost succeeded until Tanglefoot decided he was actually quite hungry and fell off backwards. I'm sorry but I can't help but laugh when you do comedy acts like that for me, along with your amazingly successful - sneeze, slip, fall, look around and think no-one noticed, followed by a quick wash to prove you were sitting there the whole time - which you've almost completely mastered!

The only thing you refused to play nice with were the Christmas decorations; what is it about Christmas tree lights that makes you want to eat them and bash them regardless of whether they're switched on or not? And then came the final moment that many people warned me about, when Spitfire tried to climb the tree and it was suddently time to take everything down and pack it away...

Happy New Year little kittens!

-- theo

Spitfire & Tanglefoot - Week 12

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 13:04:03 GMT

Dear kittens,

Welcome home Spitfire & Tanglefoot. It's been a torrid week of screaming for your mum, covering the house in loverly smells, meeting new people, and finding the joys of katnip!

I've learnt a lot about how annoying and also how cute & great you can be, from keeping me awake every night to suddenly purring madly and wanting a cudle, and now after a saucer of milk, crazily washing each other and looking very cute.

You came to live with me last Sunday evening and spent the next 24 hours hissing at me and screaming out of every window and from every high point you could find to work out where your mum was.

By Wednesday you were happy to be around me (as long as there was something to hide/sleep under) and I thought things were going really well. Until Spitfire got spooked the next morning, and found an excellent hidey hole that was perfect to shout and hiss from, and meant I had to take half the kitchen apart to make sure you were just throwing a hissy fit and hadn't actually been crushed under all the pots & pans that had managed to find their way through the solid walls of cupboards to fall on top of you.

Thursday & Friday brought new visitors to say hello and be hissed at unless they played with you for hours, in which case you were willing to forgive them. So by Friday night, when you'd definately worked out what the litter tray was for, and the smells were starting to only come from the one place I thought I'd leave my bedroom door open; all going well so far!

Slight problem Saturday night when Spitfire pissed all over my duvet at 1am... gits... little annoying furballs from hell... never again will you darken my bedroom doorstep. When I'd finally figured out that the duvet was too big for the washing machine and that I'd have to soak it in the bath you'd found somewhere nice and comfy to sleep off the joys of emptying a very full bladder all over the big guy that gives you tasty food & katnip every day.

So Sunday morning needed a fresh start with a very bleary eyed me wandering downstairs and deciding that as you were purring I'd forgive everything and let you eat again; closely followed by more katnip playtime and even the wonders of a saucer of milk that have turned you into the cutest furballs in the world!

-- theo

Christmas Puzzle & Kittens

Mon, 12 Dec 2005 07:57:37 GMT

This year's Christmas Puzzle (the fifteenth) is now available for download.

And I got me some kittens! They seem to have set themselves up in the bathroom looking out over the world for the mo.