I woke up this morning to the sound of a kitty sneezing. there has been more and more of that, but I could never pin down exactly who was doing it. By mid morning I figured out it was Eli. He still looks fine, eyes are fine, nose is good.. but the sneezing has definitely picked up. He's also been lethargic lately.. or should I say every time I see him he's sleeping or just woken up. Which might be just bad timing on my part. But then this evening he seemed a bit on the warm side. Not having a thermometer for myself let alone one for the kitties, I ran out to the store to get one.. got some petroleum jelly too (cause it helps it go in better) and came back and took his temp. My hubby has little to no clue on how to subdue a cat, and he certainly wasn't about to actually take the temp (you mean that goes in THERE!!).. so after two aborted attempts, I finally got the temp, and it was 101.4 (101.5 is normal for cats) So he's not running a fever which is good.
Took Jack on a car ride last night. We went down to MA. to Baskin Robbins to get a free ice cream. Yes.. it cost us more to get there than it would have to go some where local and actually pay for an ice cream, but road trips are fun, so off we went. He immediately started sucking up to the hubby. I got a little jealous, but I could deal. he was curled up in the front seat, it was very sweet. We stopped at Subway for dinner, and when he got out to get the sandwiches, the truck dinged quite a bit - cause he left the keys in the ignition. well that freaked jack out, and it took a bit to calm him down. but soon he was calm, and we were on our way. After a few minutes he went out back and crawled into the carrier we brought. he was quite happy in there. We got down to the shop, got our ice cream and came home. After the ice cream was gone I brought the carrier up to the front seat. he was so cute in it. I bought a basket carrier from 13cats.com.. its the cutest thing anyway.. after some patting and some cooing, jack decided to get out of the carrier and explore the cab. He sat on the back seat for a while, then stood on the back of the front seat and started crying. We thought he might have to go to the bathroom. I had totally forgotten to bring something for that, so I picked him up and put him back in the carrier for a while. He then got back out, did a bit more exploring, then ended up sitting on the hubby's shoulders... and didn't I get horribly jealous then!! I kept telling him he wasn't going to be my favorite kitty any more, but he didn't buy it. we got home and he was totally fine. went pee after greeting everyone who didn't get to go :)
this morning I was till "mad" at jack.. I told muffin she was my new favorite kitty.. she then proceeded to get into as much trouble as she possibly could. Pushed things off the head board, off the bureau, jumped on Eli, and was just a general PITA. Guess Im not going to tell her that again.. LOL
its such a sad thing that i have raised such shy kitties.. they are sooooo afraid of getting into the bags I bring home to get out what they want..
NOT!
my kitties have absolutely no problem asking for what they want. I brought home a cat nip toy, and they were all over the bags.. but then again, they are all over any plastic bags I bring home. Muffin LOVES to sit in them.. I hadn't even emptied one and she was trying to get in it last night. I also had a bowl in another one, and she just climbed up in it and sat in the bowl cause it was wrapped in a plastic bag.. it was so cute. Unfortunately though I left the bag on the floor, and bit later on in the evening a couple of kitties - I am assuming it was Muffin and Eli - tore though the house and broke the bowl into a number of pieces. They have no couth.
Today Im trying something new. Ive decided Im going to give them vitamin supplements in wet food as a treat. The lecithin is doing great things with Emerald's coat (she had major dandruff, its almost gone now) and I decided that I will be introducing Vitamin C to them as well. I opened up packet of wet food, and put the supplements and the food in five different food bowls for them. Em gets some lecithin and C, and everyone else got a little Vitamin C, except jack who is going to get a bit more. Well ollie was totally not fooled. Immediately turned it down. Muffin ate hers, Eli ate his.. well they licked the juice off the sliced food anyway.. Jack had some of his, then went to go see what Em had. Em wanted to know what Ollie passed up.. then muffin, done with hers, went to eat jacks.. *rolls eyes* I gave up. It wasn't vitally important that they eat their own portions.. just would have been nice... oh well.
Charlie still is with kittens. I haven't felt any more movement. The other day I felt a kitty kick me. But she's not too keen on me just laying my hand on her tummy, it needs to be patting her, or scratching her. She is going to make someone a really great cat..
I checked up on Sally on Tuesday.. she was still there. :( oh well.. She is a great kitty too, Im sure she'll be picked soon.
took Ollie and Jack out for a walk the other day. First it was jack. He sat outside and was looking around. I decided to take him to the edge of yard to check the mail. I put him down on the ground, and he just looked up at me and meowed, as if to ask me "now what?" I tried to get him to walk toward the house, but he wouldn't. I walked as close to the house as his leash would allow, but he still wouldn't follow me. I scooched down and patted the ground and he came and rubbed up against my ankles. Had to do that a few times, then he got the hang of it and walked back to the house and up the stairs. Sat on the porch and didn't want to go back inside. I eventually hearded him inside. I took ollie out next. He loved it. Only wanted to walk in the shade, but that's understandable.. black cat, lots of warm sun. He had a blast. Will have to take him out more often... maybe when the sun isn't so bright.
