Cute Girl

Padme learned to do this trick when you tell her she is cute.

Nutmeg is still testing Sneaky Pete. She makes herself as big as she can and runs sideways at him with her ears flat back.
Petey usually ignores her. He sits with his back to the kitten as though he could care less. He will wait until the kitten touches him before growling at her.
When Nutmeg gets tired she sits against your neck and tries to sleep.

If you don't take the hint and put her up in her room, she moves onto your chest.

Nutmeg is getting brave.

Nutmeg is growing quickly. This week she started carrying toys in her mouth while running from room to room. She is trying to get brave enough to touch Sneaky Pete.

Scooter

Scooter lives next door but spends most of his day in our yard. Most of the time, we don't remember what the names of the cats are next door. So, they end up with two names. Our Uncle Onslow is PJ when he is east of the shrub row. At Gayle's, the orange tabby with a stripe on his nose is Alex. In our yard his name is Slash. For ten years we called Scooter 'The Tenant.' Our dog, Annie, had a dog run with an insulated dog house. Annie spent nights in the house with us. Scooter would squeeze through the fencing into the kennel and sleep in the dogs house. In the morning before we left for work we would put Annie in the kennel run. As she trotted into the kennel, Scooter would leave her dog house and go back to her yard. Annie would go into her dog house and curl up on the warm bed the cat just left. So we called Scooter the Tenant and said that the dog hired him to keep her bed warm. Scooter gave us a scare last week by going missing for several days. He is not a wanderer. He is either at my house or his home next door. We think he was scared by some dogs that ran through the neighborhood last week and got locked in a garage while people were on vacation. He is back now and sleeping in my garden.

Water Fountain

The cats have their own water feature. The water is circulated through a filter and tank in the ground so it is always fresh and cool. The other cats drink from the bowl the water falls into. But Padme like to drink from the stream of water. She looks so intense with her eyes squinted and her ears laid back! We put smaller water plants in the bowl so the water does not splash into the bowl They won't drink out of the bowl if their faces get splashed.

Nutmeg

Nutmeg loves to see Uncle Onslow. She is still sick, her nose is stuffed up. We can get her to eat canned food if Uncle Onslow helps. Poor kid has earmites bad enough to block one ear and set off a yeast infection in the other ear.











Her eyes have finally fully opened up and are free of infection. She still has the human equivelant of a sinus infection. She is still fighting a viral infection of which I hope we are willing the battle on. Nutmeg still has wild ups and downs. When she is up, she races around the house and is into everything. When she crashes we are sure she won't come out of it. So far this free kitty has cost over $300 in veterinary visits.



















She figured out that the computer exhuast fan is on the back and lays in the heat.














The whole week has been cool and low in humidity. Perfect kitty days in the cattery. Emmette is snoozing near the catnip.
















Uncle Onslow only looks like he is doing morning yoga. He must think his toes need a good cleaning.




















Sneaky Pete is spending more time in the cattery to get away from the kitten.