Cats and life.
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herveus Cats.
Calliegh, the older kitten from the batch feral-mom Peaches presented us with, lives in the house with MJ and I. I have clearly become her human. She jumps up in my lap demanding pettings. I can get her to fall off my leg leaning into the pettin's. She will give me nose boops. She spends nights in her crate, and she now goes in willingly. I usually don't even have to pick her up. Yay!
MJ took Alexx, one of the younger kittens, on a road trip, from Birka to Estrella. Alexx had been living upstairs with Morgyn and Jess and Marisol. Marisol is the sister of Alexx; Jess a mature cat who was persuaded to come inside before she got settled in as a feral. Once Alexx returned, Jess had really strong Opinions on Another Cat In The House. So downstairs Alexx came.
Alexx was not real keen on Calleigh initially, there being significant growling and some hissing. But it's not been a week and they get along reasonably well now. There is kitty-grab-assing of the usual sort, and the occasional growl or swat, but I'm happy with the progress.
We have an appointment for Alexx and Marisol to get certain repairs to them on May 1. Until then, we will have to deal with heat. We'll survive.
One interesting detail about the kittoms: Calleigh is two months older than her litter mates. It looks like Peaches dropped one and went into head a week later, then while nursing one was gestating two. That might explain how haggard she looked. Once she was back to eating for one, she filled right back out. We were able to trap her and get her fixed; she still hangs around, because there is food to be had. She can be demanding about that. She will even come in the back door, and has eaten food in the house, but she's still feral skittish.
In return, we have found mice, half-mice, a vole, and three rats so far. I'm not sure who ended up eating the rats. Crows may have made off with the carcasses, or maybe a local fox, or maybe local cats. In any case each one disappeared within 48 hours of us finding them. We have not had mouse problems in either building of late, as well.
Meanwhile, I'm now teleworking 100% like all my coworkers. It's going OK.
Since Gulf Wars was cancelled, there's a whole week of leave I'm not taking. That means I can do all of Pennsic, assuming there is a Pennsic this year. We shall see how things go.
I have enough things to do around the house to keep me occupied.
Calliegh, the older kitten from the batch feral-mom Peaches presented us with, lives in the house with MJ and I. I have clearly become her human. She jumps up in my lap demanding pettings. I can get her to fall off my leg leaning into the pettin's. She will give me nose boops. She spends nights in her crate, and she now goes in willingly. I usually don't even have to pick her up. Yay!
MJ took Alexx, one of the younger kittens, on a road trip, from Birka to Estrella. Alexx had been living upstairs with Morgyn and Jess and Marisol. Marisol is the sister of Alexx; Jess a mature cat who was persuaded to come inside before she got settled in as a feral. Once Alexx returned, Jess had really strong Opinions on Another Cat In The House. So downstairs Alexx came.
Alexx was not real keen on Calleigh initially, there being significant growling and some hissing. But it's not been a week and they get along reasonably well now. There is kitty-grab-assing of the usual sort, and the occasional growl or swat, but I'm happy with the progress.
We have an appointment for Alexx and Marisol to get certain repairs to them on May 1. Until then, we will have to deal with heat. We'll survive.
One interesting detail about the kittoms: Calleigh is two months older than her litter mates. It looks like Peaches dropped one and went into head a week later, then while nursing one was gestating two. That might explain how haggard she looked. Once she was back to eating for one, she filled right back out. We were able to trap her and get her fixed; she still hangs around, because there is food to be had. She can be demanding about that. She will even come in the back door, and has eaten food in the house, but she's still feral skittish.
In return, we have found mice, half-mice, a vole, and three rats so far. I'm not sure who ended up eating the rats. Crows may have made off with the carcasses, or maybe a local fox, or maybe local cats. In any case each one disappeared within 48 hours of us finding them. We have not had mouse problems in either building of late, as well.
Meanwhile, I'm now teleworking 100% like all my coworkers. It's going OK.
Since Gulf Wars was cancelled, there's a whole week of leave I'm not taking. That means I can do all of Pennsic, assuming there is a Pennsic this year. We shall see how things go.
I have enough things to do around the house to keep me occupied.
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