The kittens are coming!

Ha! I woke up before the woollies this morning, and woke THEM up by making noises and insisting on stroking THEM.

It is Not Good when one is woken by the horror of the smell emanating from the litter box where Sebastian has deposited his morning steaming pile of ****

Still, something like that has to be better out than in.

Agreed, better in than out. What I hate is the awful sound of some cat barfing in the middle of the night, and the certitude that you will step in it the next morning in your bare feet.

in than out meant..better in the litterbox than out

He's vomiting too!

Jlkkiii

I think he bolts his food!

He seems almost TOO well physically

No...better outside the cat than inside!

Inside the litterbox certainly.

When our kittens were 3-4 months old, they were bolting their food. I think it's because they're growing so fast. The pace of eating has slowed now.....they are now 8 months or so.

I live for this

Less food less waste products!

Sebastian is hyperactive too

Learned the hard way:

The tinned beef I bought gives both kittens diarrhoea!

I have four litterboxes and have gone through several thirty liter bags of litter (I use re-cycled paper pellets) since the kittens have arrived!

Sebastian will happily use the Boodaloo in the laundry when he notices it is there, but won't use the boodaloo in the study. I think because the door is heavier and more solid.

I therefore have litter all over the floor and no olfactory protection from the horror of his pooh.

His reaction to being held by the scruff of his neck continues to fascinate and amuse me...it is also useful.

He sort of swoons like a Regency maiden! it takes a couple of seconds to kick in, but then he looks ecstatic, and he just goes completely limp...if he is standing he sinks boneless to whatever he is standing on, with the funniest look of bliss on his face. In that state I have been able to cut his claws with no protest and he will calm down from maximum over the top madness to a semi-coma that lasts for some time after I let him go.

Sadly, Viola is completely immune to this tactic!

my cats won't even touch the beef. They like chicken or fish moist cat food. We feed them each 1/3 of a small can twice a day. You'd think their lives depended on it, the way they go after that little dab. We have available at all times the "kitty buffet" of dry cat food, both kitten and adult forms.

You won't regret having multiple litter boxes. There is nothing worse than having a cat go ''rogue" and start peeing somewhere they shouldn't.

Indeed...re the litter trays.

Sebastians pooh is rogue by the mere fact of its existence!

I'm feeling too old for mad kittens

Has Sebastian been checked for worms??

I know you feel overwhelmed by their "kittenness" right now, especially after losing your sweet and sedate Miranda, but it will pass. Have you considered noseplugs?

He was wormed just before he came.

The nose plug is a good idea but I want to KNOW when my place stinks!



I think the overwhelmedness is about the short opportunities for the craziness that Sebastian has on my workdays

He's better when we can interact more

I wish I could find them some really great toys that they could use when I am away

Bought toys are generally a dead loss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgV6K9Cs3Gc

Hmmmm...little bugger just might like something like that...

He is OBSESSED with licking! Mainly he wants to lick my face, but fingers will do, and then he bites. Quite painfully sometimes. Stopping him is like playing with a yo yo that won't stop.

Viola is similar, but in a much less obsessive way, and her licking is pleasant because I know I won't be bitten.

I have to work at maintaining a relationship with her and Sebastian makes this hard because of his over the top-ness. He isn't jealous when I give her attention, he is just ubiquitous and very Tigger-like in his bounces.

I insisted on a lot of Viola time this morning and last night and she has warmed up considerably again and is demanding attention too.

How soon before they can be altered, Deb? Mikey calmed down a lot when his youthful hormones stopped raging. Licking and biting was his thing too.

Viola sounds like a charmer.

They're already desexed. A lot of breeders insist on selling them that way these days. I don't like it, I think it's done too early that way.

Viola is being charming as we speak!

Little buggers will be five months old on Tuesday.

I came out to piles of vomit. I think it's Sebastian and I think it's from bolting his food and running around.....but I might get both of them checked by my vet when I get paid.

I woke at 4.00 am and had to get up, and, of course, Sebastian thought it was morning and took a long time to settle.

Now I need to go and clean up Chunderland, the messiest kingdom of them all and then go to work.

Nothing like waking up to cat puke. Our little male kitten was already neutered when we got him....he was tiny. The female was just spayed three weeks ago. She went briefly into heat, at which time Max and Newton, our neutered but fully grown males, became highly interested. Spaying and neutering is done much earlier than it used to be.