New Toys

I went a bit overboard on buying cat toys clearance toys after Christmas and when I really started putting them away I thought I'd lost my mind.  But now I remember why I need so many - kittens are stupid!  I can't tell you how many I've thrown away in the last week after fishing them out of the litterbox!  So while I'm glad that I have cheap toys for them to burn through, I'll play with my new, more expensive toy!  My hubby agreed to let me buy a new camera that I've been drooling over for quite some time.  So of course I had to take some pictures to see how it worked!

 

There is a reason that spring if my favorite season.  I love going out to my garden everyday and seeing what else has come back to life.  It's hard to imagine that all of that is laying under the surface for the rest of the year.  I have now officially documented all of the plants in my yard and have a couple hundred pictures to prove it!

 

This is my Lexi, she's hard to get pictures of because she's afraid of the camera.  I took this with my zoom lens from across the yard.  Poor baby has come so far - she used to be afraid of her own shadow, but a few of the old fears remain.  The next picture is my old man Jake.  He's 13 this year which is getting up there for a collie mix.  He's starting to slow down, he still pulls like crazy and is ready to go on a walk, but by the end, he's walking behind me.  That's never happened before.

 

Now for the moment you've been waiting for - kitten pictures!  Today's photo-shoot victims were Rome and Pisa.  I get a lot of comments on Pisa, so I thought I'd keep shooting her, and she's always so willing to cooperate!  They're 7-weeks-old here and not nearly as big as they should be.  Only Palermo and Florence have mastered eating out of a dish so far, but they all seem to be doing better with the litter box.  Another developmental milestone is that these guys seem to understand gravity now!  Before when I'd put them up on the platform that is my little kitty photo studio, they'd just run for the edges and I'd have to catch them.  Now they'd stop and look over and decide that they better stay on top.  Much easier to photograph them when you can actually do things like focus the camera instead of catching kittens!

 

This is also the age where if they're not extremely healthy, they start looking a little gross.  Here Pisa has a little albon stuck in her fur, that's the medicine for the loose stool.  It'll come out eventually!  The good news is that Pisa has gotten much more active and has really been playing hard, which you'll see right now.

 

Don't worry, Rome defended himself, but at this point he was so focused on the new toy that he just wanted her to go away.  Too bad you can't hear how he's growling at her like such a big boy.  There was even a hiss at the end - too cute!  Rome is the only boy from the original litter and loves to explore.  In fact when I open their door I have to make sure that I catch him first or he's off and can take a long time to find again!  I love this picture - the toy is almost as big as he is! 

 

Here's Rome just looking scruffy and cute!  He had just been wrestling and tumbled into the water bowl, so he's almost dry in this picture. His right front foot was the worst off, it's still soaking!

 

Jack and Jill are also hard to get pictures of, they just never sit still!  I had taken these guys from a foster home that wanted to get out of keeping cats and these guys have had loose stool pretty much their whole lives.  We think food allergies are to blame.  Jack is finally firm and Jill has gotten much better.  They're ready for a new home.  Who ever adopts them will be lucky, they are very cool cats!  Very loving and they go crazy over toys!  It's so much fun to give them new toys because they'll play with anything and just get so into their little games!  They just need special food amd combine that with them being black and having the loose stool history (even though they're very good about using the box), it won't be easy to find them a home.