This Belongs To Me

May 15, 2009. My last guest left, the guest room is free again. Extra space for me, and extra space for the kitties, who claim the room as part of their own Lebensraum.

Free At Last

April 17, 2009 Chick lovingly licks her brother's face - at last. The collar is gone, and without my permission. Yesterday when I came home, Chucky greeted me happily, withough collar. He was so happy. He also doesn't lick his stitched paw more than the others, so as far as I'm concerned, the collar stays off.

Prince Chucky

April 14, 2009. Chucky managed to lose the bandage around his paw, and we couldn't get it back on - not longer than about 5 minutes. The vet said the wound is healing fine, but let's leave the collar on, to make sure Chucky doesn't start on the stitches.
This will be the last official picture of Chucky with colar. He looks like an actor in a Shakespeare play. Tomorrow the stitches come out.

More 2 Explore

Chick & Chucky find open spaces rather scary. To explore their new surroundings (my parents' garden), they work together. They stay close to each other, and when they are a few yards apart they meow softly, at regular intervals. Just to make sure they are both still there.

Big Foot

April 12, 2009 - With a leg like that, you always have something to play with. It's Eastern, and to prepare them for their lives as citizens of this world we are now touring the Netherlands. Here in my parent's garden.

Awww

April 10, 2009 - Still groggy from the vet's visit. Poor Chucky. This morning he jumped on the bed and, very quietly, leaned agains my back. The sheets got all bloody, and upon inspection, there was blood all over the place. With some tissue and some pressure I managed to stop the bleeding - a cut in his paw, I don't know from where.
After half an hour there was blood all over the kitchen floor. Time to go to the vet. Stitches between his toes.
And now he has a collar and a taped-in foot and I have to make sure it stays on him for the next 10 days. He tries to get rid of both by walking backwards in circles.
His sister thinks it's all very exciting and jumps on him all the time.

Oops

April 7, 2009 - Until yesterday, this lamp looked nice. Time to get a new one - cat proof.

Time to Explore

April 5, 2009. Chick & Chucky need to meet the bigger world. We start at the front door, near the Mahatma Gandhi statue, which is not too open and overwhelming. Still, the open sky is rather imposing, and they forget to fight and fidget their leashes (orange for Chucky, teal for Chick).

Tiger, Tiger

April 3, 2009. They are cute, but there is still that wild vein. There is a tiger in every cat.

Sweet Dreams

March 31, 2009. The secret: play an hour before you go to bed, and we'll all sleep through the night and gently waking up in the morning.