Well, it's been a heck of a long time since I made an entry on here !
The kittens all left me, and are now settled in their new homes, apart from the one, who is sat on my lap as I type. I have a special role for her, but it is a secret at the moment .
Her mum, Lily is at stud, so hopefully more babies over Christmas time. I have already moved the kitten box into the lounge, as I have decided this is where they are going to go this time around. Poor Percy will have to find somewhere else to snuggle for a while.
I have been very very busy! What with Scouting activities over many weekends, and going away for 6 weeks in the summer, my life is going by in a blur at the moment. Although it is a pretty happy blur.
I am very busy trying to think of ways to start to earn some money, and one idea that springs to mind, is offering to care for animals while owners go away.
I have had such troubles getting my animals cared for, that it made me realise that there is a big hole out there, for people like me, especially for people with pedigree cats, as mine are. They really are not like other moggies ( as I do have one living with me, and have owned 2 previously) , and it would be wonderful to know someone else who could care for them on those occasions when I do have to go away.
So if anyone lives in my area, and is looking for help with their animals, drop me a message :)
Wednesday, 10 October 2007
Sunday, 25 February 2007
Sunday night
20:17
Sunday Evening
My apologies that I did not write an entry for today. It was Sunday and I was having a little rest.
Things have begun to change here now. The babies have got MOBILE !!! Later, when they wake up again, I will attempt to get some video footage. They are rolling around and playing with one another, and grooming, waddling around the box and becoming more cuddly. Little Rappy is quite a character, and is always waddling out for some fuss. I am so very much hoping that the stripes on her tail develop, as she is definately Chocolate.
The trouble with the babies becoming mobile, is that Lily does not like it. Lily wants to take them OUT of the box, and put them under the bed...............it really is not very clean under the bed, and I really do not want them there, as I cannot see them. Sooooo, I have set up a vigil of sitting in the box ( as I am now) and then Lil agrees not to keep picking them up. I am not ready to move them into the bathroom yet. To me, they are still too young and I am not ready to part with them at night time. I have become attatched to having them in here with me.
Tomorrow, I am going to start to introduce a milky mixture, a couple of times in the day. This is always fun at first, watching them paddle through it all and make a mess. I will let them lick some off my finger at first to get a flavour. It will be nice to give Lily a little rest from all the feeding.
As I sit in the box, and type this, Lily has just jumped out of it, ...........just jumped back in, she is licking the babies and fortunately this time, she has not taken a baby out! But I am not sleeping in the box tonight. Last night she ended up putting them on the bed, so I am looking forward to some company tonight!!!
Hopefully I will get some good video footage tonight and then you can really see how lively they have become!-- Lesley
Sunday Evening
My apologies that I did not write an entry for today. It was Sunday and I was having a little rest.
Things have begun to change here now. The babies have got MOBILE !!! Later, when they wake up again, I will attempt to get some video footage. They are rolling around and playing with one another, and grooming, waddling around the box and becoming more cuddly. Little Rappy is quite a character, and is always waddling out for some fuss. I am so very much hoping that the stripes on her tail develop, as she is definately Chocolate.
The trouble with the babies becoming mobile, is that Lily does not like it. Lily wants to take them OUT of the box, and put them under the bed...............it really is not very clean under the bed, and I really do not want them there, as I cannot see them. Sooooo, I have set up a vigil of sitting in the box ( as I am now) and then Lil agrees not to keep picking them up. I am not ready to move them into the bathroom yet. To me, they are still too young and I am not ready to part with them at night time. I have become attatched to having them in here with me.
Tomorrow, I am going to start to introduce a milky mixture, a couple of times in the day. This is always fun at first, watching them paddle through it all and make a mess. I will let them lick some off my finger at first to get a flavour. It will be nice to give Lily a little rest from all the feeding.
As I sit in the box, and type this, Lily has just jumped out of it, ...........just jumped back in, she is licking the babies and fortunately this time, she has not taken a baby out! But I am not sleeping in the box tonight. Last night she ended up putting them on the bed, so I am looking forward to some company tonight!!!
Hopefully I will get some good video footage tonight and then you can really see how lively they have become!-- Lesley
Wednesday, 21 February 2007
Wednesday night
Wednesday Night 21:58
Well, my babies have had a quiet day, feeding sleeping, squeaking and having cuddles with both Rich and Tim. My boys can't resist coming in and giving them a cuddle! They are at a very cute stage, where they do respond to your voice. I know that if I go into the box, and chat away, as I do, their little faces will look up, and they will squeak at me. Ohhhh, I love it when they do that! I love it even more when they start to waddle towards me.
And I have had some lovely cuddles, they are getting much more comfortable with being handled. And I love my Lil, if she hears them squealing when I pick them up, she looks, and if she sees that I have them, she goes back to sleep. Ahhhh, she TRUSTS me with these little ones. I kind of feel that we are bringing these up together, I think she sees me as her little helper.
I have been bringing Lil lots of chicken up to eat, and she has just had some Tuna and White Bait, in addition to the James Wellbeloved dry food that she eats. I have to make sure that she is eating plenty, as she is feeding these little ones. She really never leaves their side, and is almost reluctant to go out of the room to use the toilet, but she does prefer the litter trays in the conservatory, and I do like her to go and have a run up and down the stairs. She needs to get some exercise and stretch her legs.
As I look to my left, I can see one little baby, rolling on it's side, and looking up to me, with those oh sooo irrisistable red baby eyes. I just spoke to it, and it's little eyes lit up and it rolled on its back, you just have to go and tickle that belly!!!
I have just given them all a good check over, looked at all their eyes, tried to be more sure of their colours, definately a Lilac looking girl there. The larges kitten definately has a chocolate nose, I still think there is a caramel Tabby girl. The embarassing thing was, the large boy, was not looking very much like a boy.............he was looking more like a 'she'. It may just be the light and my having tired eyes, I will check them thoroughly again in the morning.
I am tired tonight, and I so must try to get to bed earlier!!! But these little ones are irrisistable, and then I have to spend time with the other cats in the house!!
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Well, my babies have had a quiet day, feeding sleeping, squeaking and having cuddles with both Rich and Tim. My boys can't resist coming in and giving them a cuddle! They are at a very cute stage, where they do respond to your voice. I know that if I go into the box, and chat away, as I do, their little faces will look up, and they will squeak at me. Ohhhh, I love it when they do that! I love it even more when they start to waddle towards me.
And I have had some lovely cuddles, they are getting much more comfortable with being handled. And I love my Lil, if she hears them squealing when I pick them up, she looks, and if she sees that I have them, she goes back to sleep. Ahhhh, she TRUSTS me with these little ones. I kind of feel that we are bringing these up together, I think she sees me as her little helper.
I have been bringing Lil lots of chicken up to eat, and she has just had some Tuna and White Bait, in addition to the James Wellbeloved dry food that she eats. I have to make sure that she is eating plenty, as she is feeding these little ones. She really never leaves their side, and is almost reluctant to go out of the room to use the toilet, but she does prefer the litter trays in the conservatory, and I do like her to go and have a run up and down the stairs. She needs to get some exercise and stretch her legs.
As I look to my left, I can see one little baby, rolling on it's side, and looking up to me, with those oh sooo irrisistable red baby eyes. I just spoke to it, and it's little eyes lit up and it rolled on its back, you just have to go and tickle that belly!!!
I have just given them all a good check over, looked at all their eyes, tried to be more sure of their colours, definately a Lilac looking girl there. The larges kitten definately has a chocolate nose, I still think there is a caramel Tabby girl. The embarassing thing was, the large boy, was not looking very much like a boy.............he was looking more like a 'she'. It may just be the light and my having tired eyes, I will check them thoroughly again in the morning.
I am tired tonight, and I so must try to get to bed earlier!!! But these little ones are irrisistable, and then I have to spend time with the other cats in the house!!
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Tuesday, 20 February 2007
Just over 2 weeks old
19:58 Tuesday evening.
Well, I have spent some nice quality time with my kittens today. They are becoming much more amenable to cuddles and chin strokes, and of course tickling their cute little tummies. Tim has his head in the box as I am typing, and he is stroking them and generally making a fuss. When I sit in the box, and talk to them, their little eyes and ears prick up and they look in my direction. And sometimes they waddle accross towards me.
I am beginning to form some more ideas about the colours of these babies. I think we may have,
Lilac Point girl
Caramel Tabby Point girl
Caramel/Chocolate girl
Poss a Choc Tabby girl, if not, Caramel.
The little boy, is def Choc, but I still just cannot decide if he is tabby or not.......I am looking twice a day at the mo, but he has a chocolate nose.
The little girl that I think may be Choc Tabby, or if not Caramel, has the loudest voice of them all, and protests the most when I pick her up. The boy is the most laid back of the litter at the moment. But once they really start to move around, I will be able to tell much more.
Lily has barely left them at all, apart from a couple of trips down to the conservatory to use the litter tray, she has just walked to the outer part of the box, to eat some chicken.
They are an incredibly sweet bunch, this lot. They seem quite content. I was watching them today, as they were cleaning one another, and themselves. When they are so small, it is very cute watching the clean one another. Their little paws are small and pink, and it fascinates me to see them licking and cleaning them.
Well, I have spent some nice quality time with my kittens today. They are becoming much more amenable to cuddles and chin strokes, and of course tickling their cute little tummies. Tim has his head in the box as I am typing, and he is stroking them and generally making a fuss. When I sit in the box, and talk to them, their little eyes and ears prick up and they look in my direction. And sometimes they waddle accross towards me.
I am beginning to form some more ideas about the colours of these babies. I think we may have,
Lilac Point girl
Caramel Tabby Point girl
Caramel/Chocolate girl
Poss a Choc Tabby girl, if not, Caramel.
The little boy, is def Choc, but I still just cannot decide if he is tabby or not.......I am looking twice a day at the mo, but he has a chocolate nose.
The little girl that I think may be Choc Tabby, or if not Caramel, has the loudest voice of them all, and protests the most when I pick her up. The boy is the most laid back of the litter at the moment. But once they really start to move around, I will be able to tell much more.
Lily has barely left them at all, apart from a couple of trips down to the conservatory to use the litter tray, she has just walked to the outer part of the box, to eat some chicken.
They are an incredibly sweet bunch, this lot. They seem quite content. I was watching them today, as they were cleaning one another, and themselves. When they are so small, it is very cute watching the clean one another. Their little paws are small and pink, and it fascinates me to see them licking and cleaning them.
Thursday, 15 February 2007
Thursday 15th
I am trying to write things from a different angle here, than in my kitten diaries, otherwise, they will just be a repeat of one another.
Lil is sooo settled with her babies now, she barely wants to leave the room, and she doesn't ask for company.
I am feeling much more refreshed physically and mentally.
I am probably going to need this little break, with Lil being less needy, as in a couple of weeks time, these little darlings, will be running around, and keeping me very busy, and full of laughs. At the moment, they have the ahhhhh factor. So sweet little faces.
Rich is still struggling with the virus, and has been sick again, but he will still go to school. He doesn't like staying at home, and I would rather him be at school.
Tim has just settled ( again..............) in my bed, munching small chocolate eggs
My house needs a jolly good clean, I hate it not being clean, but this is only for a short period of time. I am not going to spend all day cleaning, if I can spend time with my cats instead.
Lil loves the new extension to her box, with all the teddies, SUCCESS !!!
Wednesday, 14 February 2007
February 14th
I did not write anything here yesterday, because I was a little tired, and I still had Richard home poor, and then my mother came round to join us, but my kitten diaries on my website were kept up to date.
Lily made her first attemt at moving kittens this morning. I knew she was thinking about it, as she had been digging around in the teddies under the dressing table for a few days now. Tim was in the room, as he slept in here last night, and I came back upstairs to find Lil shouting at me from the bed. I then heard a loud ammount of squealing from a kitten, but if was not from the box..........yes, there was a kitten crawling amongst the teddies!!!
I have now put the expension box onto the first box, and in it I have put lots of teddies. Hopefully that will keep her happy for a little longer. Bless her, she just cannot resist moving babies, and then telling me, almost as if she then wants me to go and get it back.
I am tired today, but feeling very happy really. I am not going to bed early enough, which is not good, but I feel good about things now, and I am bouncing around the house with a smile. That has to be good.
February 14th
I did not write anything here yesterday, because I was a little tired, and I still had Richard home poor, and then my mother came round to join us, but my kitten diaries on my website were kept up to date.
Lily made her first attemt at moving kittens this morning. I knew she was thinking about it, as she had been digging around in the teddies under the dressing table for a few days now. Tim was in the room, as he slept in here last night, and I came back upstairs to find Lil shouting at me from the bed. I then heard a loud ammount of squealing from a kitten, but if was not from the box..........yes, there was a kitten crawling amongst the teddies!!!
I have now put the expension box onto the first box, and in it I have put lots of teddies. Hopefully that will keep her happy for a little longer. Bless her, she just cannot resist moving babies, and then telling me, almost as if she then wants me to go and get it back.
I am tired today, but feeling very happy really. I am not going to bed early enough, which is not good, but I feel good about things now, and I am bouncing around the house with a smile. That has to be good.
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