Raven
This little rascal has turned our environment into
chaos. I’m sure things will settle down
in a while. Being only three-months-old,
he’s always on the move. We are
fortunate he usually stays in bed and sleeps most of the night. But lookout when he wakes up full of vim and
vigor and ready to take on the world.
You don’t dare move your feet because that’s just an invitation to
attack.
It’s fun having a kitten around as long as you pick up the
breakables.
Raven
I’ve had so many cats over the years, so we have a ton of
cat toys. A friend of mine gave me this
furry ball with a bell on it that sits atop a spring. Raven attacks this vigorously and is so
carried away with excitement when playing with this that he does flips in the air
and landed on the edge of the coffee table tonight. Luckily, he didn’t get hurt, although he did
sit there a while staring at it. I
imagine he thought the table was attacking him.
His head made a loud thump when he whacked it.
Raven
After a quick nap in the cat tree, he was at it again.
I feel sorry for Koki who wants to come to bed so bad, but
she won’t do it as long as this little squirt is on the bed. There’s plenty of room, but after hanging out
a while, she hisses and stomps off in disgust.
This may be a good thing as she sleeps on legs and pins me to the bed at
night. As a result, I usually have to
get up a couple of times with a cramp in my leg or foot. I hate to throw her off, so usually I’ll be
still and go around with a backache in the mornings.
Koki
On Friday night, I thought we had a breakthrough because
Koki and Raven were playing footsies under the chairs upstairs. Of course, these are low to the floor so they
couldn’t see each other. Maybe that
makes a lot of difference in a cat’s world.
Today it was back to the same old thing with Koki keeping her distance
and hissing at him again.
Raven and Tootie
He’s doing his best to make friends and win the two older
females over. Tootie doesn’t mind him at
all now except to look at him weird when he’s jumping around like an
idiot. Tootie loves everyone, so I’m not
too surprised she came around first. I
guess Koki doesn’t remember being in Raven’s shoes not so long ago when she was
the new kid on the block.
Maybe some cats are like people in this respect where they
don’t remember what it was like to be a kid.
I’m giving Koki some extra attention and haven’t given up hope yet that she’ll
come around. We’ve had Raven two weeks
today and he has settled in here as if this is home.
Other than kitten watching, the moving endeavor goes
on. We’re making slow progress because
we’re still waiting for contractors to show up to do a few things we can’t
do. This is the last weekend of the Parade
of Homes, which a large annual event here.
We still don’t have the “for sale” sign on the house and that was the
goal for the middle of February. This
whole moving venture can get you down if you let it.
Tootie
On a happier note, it is warming up enough to open the
windows again for a short while. Hooray!
