*sigh*

I talked to the shelter today about getting Minerva spayed ASAP, and they agreed to do it.  So hopefully in the upcoming week the kits will wean and we can get this taken care of.    I seriously hope that reducing her hormonal load will bring her a little peace and she won't be so quick to go after me.

She did again last night.  She went after me while I was cleaning - I was moving too fast for her, and when I realized she was about to I stopped and watched her.  When she picked her feet up off the floor I said "NO!" and she looked at me, so I said no again and I could see her thinking about what she wanted to do.  Hormones and instinct said go after, but training and experience said no and go hide under the couch.  One more no from me and she decided to go with training and experience and went under the couch.  I praised the living daylights out of her and gave her some treats.

Unfortunately later on in the evening my own crew were missing me and started singing for me.  This freaked Minerva out and and the instinct and hormones won out and she rubbed her teeth across the top of my foot.  Unfortunately I wasn't wearing socks so I was feeling quite stupid and vulnerable, fortunately she didn't actually bite me.  Be it that she wasn't really into it or she couldn't get her teeth around my foot I'm not sure... but if I had to pick it would be that she didn't really want to bite - but give warning she was upset.  at least I hope so.

after the first incident I thought it best to get the kittens on solid food as fast as possible, so I gave it another shot.  I was very surprised that I got the boys to eat but Hedwig wasn't interested. They didn't eat much, but it was a start. I had a fun time patting and playing with Crookshanks.  He really is quite a sweetie..

I also saw this while blog surfing.. I do really like it.

first taste of food

Since they are climbing up on the couch all on their own now, I thought it was high time they learned what food was..

NOBODY took to it.  I was a little surprised.  I was sure Hedwig would dive right in, but she was not interested.  Fawkes seemed to think it was OK (which is strange, usually they either hate it or love it, there has never before been a "whatever" reaction) but wasn't interested in pursuing it.  Crookshanks seemed to have better things to do. 

I didn't push it.  They are fat and happy, solid food will come in time.

A dream of Ollie

The dream itself was long and complicated and you don't need to hear any of it to hear of Ollie's visit.  I was checking out a noise I heard in a closet when I saw a flash of something leaving and went to investigate it.  I left the room I was in and saw him laying on the ground almost proud of himself.  I was so happy to see him and gave him lots of attention, and I got a lot of "Ollie Attitude" back from him which made me smile.

It was just a brief encounter as I woke up out of it, but it was nice to wake up with a smile on my face.

Although I couldn't help but wonder why my kitties don't visit me together.  I haven't heard from Tig in ages, nor Em for quite some time now.  I've never heard from Kodi which just makes me sad.  I guess the longer they are gone the more they lose track of time and are distracted by doing kitty things..

Squee!!

Sleepy time...

close up...

Then Minerva comes and gives him a bath...

Not sure if this is "FLOOR IZ LAVA!" or playing with own shadow again

 It was so unbelievably cute last night watching Crookshanks play with his own shadow.  He kept pouncing on his ear shadow and it would move so he would pounce again and again, moved all the way across the room doing that..

FLOOR IZ LAVA!!!

The little boy on the right fell off the base of the cat tree and immediately jumped back on and Minerva started licking him.  Unfortunately the web cam is too fuzzy to be sure who it is, but I'm guessing Crookshanks.  Yup, definitely Crookshanks, he just walked off the screen and I saw his little crooked tail.

Here Kitty Kitty

Where are the kitties?  Not in the bed...

Not climbing the tree...

aaa... snack time.

or is that snuggle time?

Snuggle time now...

Looks like I need to move the webcam to get a better view of the room :)