4 posts tagged “cats”
April has decided that the Best Place Ever to play with her mousie is under my desk chair. I pick it up and throw it into the next room, and she brings it back and engages in more under-chair ass-kicking.
She gets her second set of baby shots tomorrow, and an ultrasound of her heart and other major organs, since they were not growing quite as quickly as they should have been. Her heart and lungs, in particular, seemed to be a bit undersized, and she was having some issues with overtiring and panting and generally not being able to physically keep up with her typically energetic kitteny ambitions to wreak utter havoc. Those symptoms seem to have diminished to non-existence, although there was a very real chance there for a while that she would have some serious issues to deal with. She's actually a bit of a shrimp for 15 weeks, but that's okay. As long as she's healthy, I don't care HOW tiny she is.
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The kitten is becoming far more interested in exploring her world vertically. Just this morning, she has vertically explored my floor-length cotton dress, the BF's white dress shirt, and his bath robe--not to mention leaping onto the side of the bed to grab onto the bedclothes and pull herself up there to frolic in the throw pillows.
She's ridiculously cute, but I think she's outgrown her playpen and baby toys and it's time we built a climbing pole with a platform at the top. If I carpet it in a neutral color, I can get away with one in the bedroom near where the final CatGenie will be installed.
The latest bit of cat-related construction will be on the stairs, and will involve running a ramp up the right-hand side of the steps, under the handrail. (My grandmother was disabled for most of her life, so my grandfather put in a second handrail that there would be one on each side.) The ramp will extend to the landing, and then a shorter ramp will go up to the top of the last few steps. It will just be a board, stained to match the stairs and held in place with a couple brackets that will be hidden under the steps so as not to ruin the woodwork. I'm going to finish it off by buying a few of those rubberized stair treads and using them longwise, running them up the boards so that the cats get some additional traction. I'm planning to use the heavy-duty outdoor kind so they last longer and hold up to any potential clawing. I considered carpet, but: A.) they would sharpen their claws on it and it wold look awful in a matter of weeks, and B.) I have done away with almost every last rug and carpet in the house, and I want to keep it that way.
Also drawing up plans to build a new mudroom, but that is for another post, as I plan to solicit some opinions from you lot.
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of kitteny goodness. Have decided to call her April May June, since all the cats that I have named have three names, and they are all "people names." The reason for April May June: she was born in April (or so say all estimates), survived May, and I found her in June. Also--Autumn, the only other female animal in the house, has a seasonal name. I think it works.
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Mr. Moo likes the fountain that TBD got him for Xmas.
(He has not put any colored mice in it. Yet.)
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(Oh! Forgot to mention--photo was taken with the iPhone app Moonlighter. It makes for steadier shots and is designed to work well in low-light situations.)
