Monday morning and the work week has started again. I need to get ready for some teaching. It occurs to me that Chip and Toi are getting bigger but I haven't recorded the changes in them very well. So here are a couple of pictures of the two of them. Patora and Cleo and Velvet are just big, not bigger so nothing to show there.
Chip is leaving her cute kitten stage and entering cat stage. Her body is longer and her fur is soft and sleek. She may always be a bit juvenile because she still sucks on a blanket every night. The acrylic fur blanket has just enough pile for her to bury her nose in and she uses it as a pacifier. Makes for soggy sleeping for me. Chip has gotten used to Choco (and vice versa) but I doubt that they'll ever be friends.
Toi has fattened up quite a bit and is a big favorite with all my visitors and students. He loves laps and will seek out anyone who sits down and then settle down to purr. This is quite flattering to non-cat owners and he is a real heart catcher. Toi is probably going to turn into a BIG cat because he eats anything and everything and never seems to have enough. I think it must be after effects of the stray period in his life since for so many weeks he had to eat what he could find. Now he must think if food is available then he'd better eat it all in case nothing is set before him ever again.Cleo and Patora take life in stride but they look a little like buzzards lately. They peer down at the bottom of chairs and sofa waiting for Velvet to make an appearance and Velvet has turned into a derelict hermit. He camps out in the caves he has made under furniture and growls at the two older cats when they walk by. If he'd just keep quiet they probably wouldn't notice him nor be ready to jump on him. It is like he is asking for a fight or else he calls out for me to come and rescue him which means I have to lift the edge of the chair and pull him out. Cat psychology I am not versed in and I don't know how one gets cats into therapy anyway but Velvet needs a little counseling right now...
6 comments:
The cats look darling. Never had a cat who sucked on something like a pacifier, that's so cute! What do you feed them?
Your cats looks so calm and nice. Are they Stay-At-Home-Cat? Or they can come in and out of the house freely?
Thanks for the update...I do love kitty posts. Chip is looking more and more beautiful and if I ever find myself in Japan I'm coming to your house for a cuddle with Toi...We can't have cats 'cos the DH and the DD1 are allergic so I beg and borrow cat cuddles whenever I can!
Hi Tanya,
I just got a very useful book, Cat vs Cat. It tells how to manage a multiple cat household and explains what their behavior means. Sounds like your Velvet is at the bottom of the pecking order, so to speak... I've got one like that!
Chip is soooo adorable. what a cutie pie. really growing into that dark spot on her nose. Toi sounds like a sweetie pie, kinda like my overgrown orange boy. Habibi and Howler were strays for a year and they've definitely never changed their eating habits.
Toi looks exactly like the cat we had when I was a child. His name was Jay and he was the largest cat I have ever had. HUGE!
We had a cat that died a couple of years ago who sucked on our clothes and necks. She was an abandoned kitten and was never properly weaned, we think. She was so tiny when we found her and rescued her from some dogs that were intent on eating her. We named her Chupacabre because of this suckling behaviour (the goat sucker - a mythical creature.)
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