Disturbing the Peace

Karen Jo:  First a word of explanation and apology.  I can blog on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays IF I haul myself out of bed early enough.  I have been sleeping too late lately, but hopefully I have a handle on it again and will be blogging more regularly.  Now on to the cats.

Karen Jo: Things got nice and quiet for a while after Bambino got adopted.  Then some cats started disturbing the peace.  Yes, I'm looking at you, Gandalf.

Gandalf: Me?  I'm just up here nice and quiet.  I was looking out the window at the snow when you disturbed me.

Karen Jo:  Yes, you.  You decided that scaring Cricket was a fun thing to do, making her scream for help.

Gandalf:  It is fun.  She scares so easily.  I can scare the crap out of her with a short chase.

Karen Jo: And then I have to clean it up.  I want you to stop it.

Clancy:  Hahaha!  Gandalf got in trouble for being a bully!

Karen Jo:  Don't look so smug.  You're in trouble, too.  You like to scare Rocio.

Clancy:  Rocio is a wuss.  I can even chase him into the broom closet and make him scream.

Karen Jo:  Rocio is not a wuss.  Are you forgetting that he beat up Gandalf?  The only reason that he doesn't fight with you is that he has accepted you as the Top Cat.  Keep pushing him and you might get a surprise one day.

Cricket:  And in other news, my eye is completely healed.  I love to curl up in Mom's lap and take a nap.  She keeps me safe from Gandalf.  Though, to be fair, he hasn't been chasing and scaring me as much this week.  I hope that he does stop it altogether.

Chevelle: I have been growing.  I'm bigger than Cricket now.

Cricket:  No, you're not!

Chevelle:  Yes, I am!  Mom says so.

Karen Jo:  Yes, Cricket.  Chevelle is now just a tiny bit taller than you are.

Chevelle:  I made a new buddy.  Mom was surprised.

Tabitha:  I'm the new buddy.  Mom was surprised because I have never had a special cat friend before.  It started out when Chevelle started playing with my tail.  I would let her do it for a while, then walk away.  Then one day she pounced me and I didn't hiss at her, like I used to.  I actually started kitty wrestling with her.  I outweigh her by a ton, so I'm careful not to get on top of her.

Chevelle:  We play pawsies side by side and grab each other and I even kick her, but she doesn't mind.  It's fun.  Cricket doesn't want to play with me and Maddie died and Gandalf and Clancy just want to play chase, so I started playing with Tabitha.  It's fun.

Healing.

Cricket:  My eye is almost completely healed, with no yucky medicine.

Karen Jo:  You might have healed faster if you had let me put the medicine in your eye.  My arm is also healed, where you scratched me while I was trying to get you into the PTU.  I do wish you would stop running away from the camera.

 Tabitha:  You didn't post a picture of me last time.

Karen Jo:  You wouldn't hold still.  Here you are this time.

Tabitha:  I sometimes eat a little of the premium food, but mostly I like Fancy Feast.

Karen Jo:  I'm glad to see that.  It's good for you.

Chevelle:  I'm just hanging around in the computer room.  Mom really needs to clean up the house.

Karen Jo:  Yes, I do.

Rocio, Gandalf and Clancy:  What about us?

Karen Jo: Rocio, you were under the couch or the bed with Julius.  Gandalf and Clancy, neither of you would hold still long enough for me to snap a picture.

Vet Visit and Food

Cricket:  Stupid Mom had the camera on the wrong setting, so most of the photos are fuzzy.  Mom scared the heck out of me last Friday.  I say her put Bambino in a PTU and take him outside and he never came back.  I thought that she had turned evil and was getting rid of us kitties.  When she got out a PTU and came for me, I ran and hid and fought back like fury.

Karen Jo:  I just wanted to take you to the vet to see what was wrong with your eye.

Cricket:  I didn't know that.  I fought with everything I had, but Mom finally caught me and scruffed me and dumped me in the PTU.

Karen Jo:  I hated to scruff you, but you got me good and it was the only way to handle you.  The vet found blood on your fur and I had to tell her that it was mine.

Cricket:  I was terrified.  I even peed in the PTU.  When we got to the vet, I wouldn't come out.  They had to reach in and grab me.  Then one of them held me still and the other one messed around with my eye for the longest time.

Karen Jo: It turned out that you had something tiny in your eye, caught between your inner eyelid and your eyeball.  It took three tries to get it out.  Then the nice vet lady showed me how to put medicine in your eye.

Cricket:  Ha!  As if I would let you mess with my eye after all that.

Karen Jo:  Luckily your eye is getting better without the medicine.  It looks almost normal again this morning.

Julius:  I'm laughing my little butt off.  The other cats told me about Mom's plot to catch me and put me in a PTU.  The very next night, I started coming out of hiding and showing Mom that my eye was  back to normal again.  I got whatever was in my eye out all by myself.

Clancy:  Mom went to Pet Pangaea and bought us our monthly supply of premium cat food.  We had all been eating Fancy Feast for a couple of weeks.  Here are some photos of our reactions.

Clancy:  Gandalf and I got Instinct Salmon.  I not only buried it, I flipped it over.  Mom saw me to it and rescued it before it all fell out on the carpet.  She was nice enough to rebury it.

Cricket:  Mom gave Chevelle and me Fussie Cat Tuna and Prawns.  I buried it.  You can just see my tail behind the grey box.

Chevelle:  I waited for the Fancy Feast to come out and ate it.

Gandalf:  I decided to ignore the whole thing and play House Panther in the living room.

Rocio: I couldn't be bothered to get out of my comfy spot in the laundry basket.

Karen Jo:  What am I going to do with you kitties?

All the kitties:  Feed us and love us and take good care of us.

Sun Puddles

Rocio: I'm the only one, besides Julius, who didn't find a sun puddle today.  I practically live in the kitchen now.  I won't hold my head still for Mom.  See those ripped up paper towels?  I did that.  I love ripping up paper towels and TP, though I don't touch the TP on the roller.  I find it where Mom tries to hide it behind the laundry hamper and rip it up back there.  Paper towels on their roller in the kitchen are fair game, though.

Gandalf and Tabitha: We both found the big sun puddle on the table.

Tabitha:  I've been here longer, so I claimed the big pillow.

Gandalf:  I don't care.  I usually prefer just to lie on the soft throw on the table, anyway.

Clancy: This glorious sun puddle belongs to me.  I love being up here in the sun.  It feels so good on my fur.

Cricket: I have my own sun puddle in the safe room.  I was up in the window, but the couch is more comfy.

Chevelle: This sun puddle on the living room floor is great for me.  It's just my size.

New Arrivals -- Part 2

Karen Jo:  I took Cricket's picture yesterday as a "just in case" picture and I took Chevelle's picture a few days ago with my phone, just because I thought that they looked cute.  I fully intended to take better pictures of them this morning, but life intervened.  I will take better pictures of them both in the future.  Now on to the new kitties.

Cricket: I'm all fuzzy.

Karen Jo:  You wouldn't hold still.  This is the best I could manage at the time.

Cricket:  Oh, well.  I'm Cricket.  I'm 3 years old but I only weigh 6 pounds.  The only thing that I remember about the before time is that I had a kitty buddy that I was taken away from and I ended up here in early October.  I am in the safe room here, where I still spend a lot of time.  When I first got here Mom was told that I was lonesome for kitty company, so Mom put Maddie in the safe room with me.  That didn't quite work out.  Maddie ran out as soon as Mom opened the door again and wouldn't come back in.  I stayed in the safe room for a week, with little trips of a few minutes each, to explore.  Then I came out for good, but this is still my favorite room.  When I had been out for a week, Chevelle came to live here.

Chevelle: I don't remember anything about the before time, either.  I came to live here in mid-October when I was 4 months old.  Mom's plan was to put me in the safe room by myself for a day, then introduce me to Cricket.  That didn't work out as planned either.  There is a high-sided cat bed on the couch in the safe room that Cricket likes to sleep in.  All the other kitties were very interested in me and I was interested in them and some of them followed us into the safe room while I was still in the PTU.  Mom had dumped her coat and purse beside the door before she closed it.  Then she evicted the other kitties one by one and got me some food, which was all ready to be put in my bowl in the safe room.  Then she picked up her coat and purse to go put them away and leave me on my own for a while when she saw Cricket.  Cricket had been napping in the cat bed on the couch and Mom never noticed her.  Mom decided to go put her coat and purse away and come back to evict Cricket.  Hahaha!  By the time Mom got back, Cricket and I were curled up together on the couch, cozy as could be.  She put some food in Cricket's bowl, which was still in the safe room, as Mom intended for us to be together and left us alone together.  Cricket was great company, but she got bored in the safe room and went out for a while each evening, but always came back at or before Mom's bedtime.  After about 5 days of this, I followed Cricket out and wow! what a different world!  I got overwhelmed and ran back into the safe room.  Mom closed the door on me.  I let out the "kitten in distress" meow as loud as I could and Mom opened the door again.  I stood in the doorway for a while, just looking around, then went out to introduce myself around.  One of the first cats I introduced myself to was Clancy.  He's nice.

Karen Jo:  I was amazed at Clancy's reaction to tiny Chevelle.  They sniffed each other all over, then Chevelle rubbed up against Clancy and he accepted it.  He is extremely gentle with her and they even play together.  It's hilarious to see tiny four pound Chevelle chasing huge Clancy down the hall

Chevelle:  At bedtime, Cricket went back into the safe room and I followed her.  Mom shut the door again.  MEOW!  Mom opened the door again and it has been open ever since.

Karen Jo:  You get the Brave Kitten award for being the very first kitten ever to want the door open forever on your first trip out of the safe room.

Chevelle:  I have lots of fun now.  Almost all of the other kitties like me and I cuddle with Cricket and play with Clancy, Gandalf and Maddie.  The photo is of Gandalf and me cuddling.

Rocio, Bambino, Julius, Tabitha and Maddie:  What about US!  We want a turn.

Karen Jo:  It's your turn next time.