Month: February 2023

Well, tomorrow we will know for sure about Kai and Indra’s gender! My guess? Yes, they are both males because of their weights. I know there’s an 80% chance of them being male, but this article says it is a 75% chance. https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/is-it-true-that-most-ginger-cats-are-male/ Yes, but not all. The ‘ginger gene’ which produces the orange colour…

Sigh. I heard Akira shrieking, so I know it is either (a) Samantha leaving the box to go to the toilet or to eat, OR (b) she is shifting the kittens again. I went up and saw Indra discarded quite a distance away, Akira discarded nearby and Kai alone in the box while Samantha was…

Riley has a new toy lion and Jayden wants to play with it too. So Jayden does a trade with Riley. He gives Riley his favourite blue Duplo elephant and giraffe in exchange for Riley’s toy lion. Fair’s fair. Riley graciously accepts the trade. You love this little lion, don’t you, Baby J? This is…

With Samantha gone from the porch (she’s in the bedroom upstairs now), a few cats have been trying to fill up the vacant slot. Leading this list is Socks, the pretty little tabby with white paws. Socks has been coming to eat very often whenever Gerald and Creamy leave unfinished food behind. So have the…

I got up for a night feed at 3am and we are on track now! 21-Feb 5.00am 291 269 276 21-Feb 7.00pm 298 277 285 22-Feb 5.30am 304 276 286 22-Feb 7.00pm 310 285 293 23-Feb 7.00am 339 294 312 So it looks like I need to feed them round the clock. All looks well…

There was some weight gain over the last 12 hours. Well, at least it is more than the minimum 5g per 12 hours. And Samantha has not cast out Indra after that one-off incident this morning. Phew! But I think only Kai is getting enough milk. Akira and Indra are not. So I make sure…

Sigh… The story begins last night when I heard Akira shrieking at the top of her voice. From the shrieks I know that Samantha is attempting to move them again. I know, it’s way overdue. The shifting of nests usually happens every 5 days. So I rushed up to see, again, the three kittens laid…

As I said this morning, Rey had it coming for him. Even I wouldn’t have had Cow Mau’s tolerance, at the rate Rey irritates them on a daily basis. So just now, there was a very, very loud war cry in Bunny’s Room. I thought I’d let them settle it by themselves, but it sounded…

Riley has a new toy! And she absolutely loves it! I figured she has been playing with Jayden’s toys and has actually bitten holes in one of them, so she might as well have her own toys to bite on. This particular pink whale soft toy has been around for more than 30 years (passed…

Indeed, who? And what did Smurfy do? Well, Smurfy had been sneaking into the house every time I open the catio door to go out. This morning, he was attacked by someone who decided it’s time to defend her territory….someone who has kept quiet for 12 years, someone whom we thought was such a scaredy…

Samantha tried to move her kittens last night. I went into the room and found the kittens scattered in three different locations on the tiled floor. Sigh…I guess she was in the midst of moving them to a new location within the bedroom. It’s an instinctual habit, so I left her alone. After half an…

It was my worst nightmare – Samantha escapes, abandons her kittens and gets herself pregnant again before I can even get her spayed. There are a few pet tomcats wearing collars (some are pedigree) whose owners allow to roam freely and they are not neutered. I went into the room to give the kittens their…