Our kittens are getting old enough now that we need to start worrying about their health as adult cats, and of course the cost of looking after them is going to rise.
They are nearly six months old now and we need to start thinking about getting them desexed, finding the right kind of food for them, and making sure their teeth, coats, eyes, ears etc are healthy.
Fortunately there is so much information online that we should have a fairly good idea about their health and what we need to be on the lookout for. We already know about ticks, having pulled one off the back of one of them, yuck, I hate doing that, and he didn’t like it much either because we pulled some of his fur with it, but at least the head came out cleanly.
Pet Health is a website that allows you to discover almost everything that could affect your cat or dog, and they have a lot of articles about medical conditions and behavior.
What I like about Pet Wave the most though, they have an online vet who you can ask a question of. Simply type your question then wait for your reply. It isn’t a substitute for seeing your local vet, but it might mean you have more information when you do.
One of the cats in a very small box, I just had to take the photo, it’s not every day you see a nearly full grown cat inside a box not much bigger than a showbox. She seemed quite cosy in there until one of the other cats jumped on the box to get her tail that had been peeking out of a whole at the back of the box.
Cat in a Box
Our cats hate rain; we hate having cats when it rains. Every morning the cats play before they have breakfast, and their idea of playing means fighting, and running really fast around the room, and jumping into the air and often onto things such as tables, the fireplace, in fact anything that has other things on it that can be knocked over.
Our nerves get stretched to way past breaking point when this happens, and it is all 100% the fault of the weather Gods. On sunny days we just open the door and shoo them outside where they chases falling leaves, attack twigs, and chase each other all over the place.
After they’ve had breakfast they settle down fairly quickly, giving each other a wash then lie down in front of the heater and sleep for most of the day, until they wake up before dinner time and the whole thing starts all over again.
We’ve tried everything, giving them toys to play with, shouting at them, pinning them down on the couch next to us, even ignoring them, but none of it works, they just have too much energy and get into too much mischief. Sometimes I really wish they were all grown up, kittens are cute, but they can be such a handful.
Kitten in a Tree
This is one of our delightful little kittens, who are showing all the signs of being teenagers even though they’re only a few months old. The man came running into the house the other day clutching the camera and a huge grin on his face.
“Look at this!”, he was yelling and jumping up and down being so excited, and there on the camera screen was this photo, her first tree climb!
We felt like such proud parents, our kittens are starting to learn how to do things for themselves and you have to agree in this photo she is absolutely adorable.
I’d love to know what was going through her mind, she isn’t even looking at the camera, probably at her brother or sister playing on the ground below, and I bet wondering how she could ambush them from the tree.
Pets | Pixabella | 
January 13, 2009 8:28 am | 
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