Mommy's Little Helper

Tigger, ya gotta love that cat. Cats are curious by nature and Tigger is no exception. In fact he has his nose into more than all of the rest of the babies combined. I have had Tigger since the day that he was born. I had found a ferrel mother with brand new babies (still wet). I brought them home and took care of them, Tigger was the only kitten to survive. I guess this is why he gets away with getting into everything.

Tigger likes to help me put away the towels.

Fold the laundry.

Inspect the shower to be sure that I have cleaned it good enough...

Putting away the dishes, can't even get the kids to do this.

Gets the laundry basket for me...

So we can unload the dryer.

Puts away the grocery's, again where are the kids??

Pest Control, one of my personal favorites.

Making the bed...

Checking for dust bunnies, he is sure to find them on top of the fridge...

Helping JJ unpack from camp, he missed her.

More Laundry... it's never ending.

I love my Tigger... but not so much at 2:30am when he opens the panty door and helps himself to a midnight snack!!!
( He needs to learn to be more quiet, the bag of chips makes a lot of noise.)





   






Growing Up Bigs

Bigs, the newest member of or furry little group of friends is growing up way to fast. He went to the vet today for a follow up and booster shots. We first got Bigs on May 16th when I took him to the vet a few days later he was .7 lbs. Today 3.4, He is alowed to run around the house all day now with the other babies and he really loves this. He has bonded well with Sadie and Gracie likley because they are closer in age to him. They are both under a year old, him being about 3 months old now. Its fun to watch him learn to do things. When he first started to venture out of his room  he would not even concider going down the stairs then when he did attempt it he had to basically jump down one step at a time. Now he tears up and down the stairs without even a thought. To climb the cat tree in our bedroom was out of the question now he scales the sides and jumps around it like he owns the joint. In my last blog I talked about how when we introduced hard food to him he loved it so much that he would growl at anybody that came close to the bowl (I have this on video but for some reason it would not load onto the blog and work, I am sorry, it is really cute). Well this week KK went off to camp again and he is doing so well with all of the other babies that we decided not to leave him in a room at night by himself, this of coarse went over BIG with him. Now he thinks he is all that... the first night he slept in my bed with me curled up by me most of the night (heaven for me) I know that he just misses his KK. Anyway... Tigger decided that he would like to join us and jumped up (at about 4am) well Mr. Bigs did not think he should have to share so he began to growl at Tigger keeping him at bay by my feet. Laughter at 4am, I will take it anytime.

Sadie, Bigs, and Gracie taking a nap.

Greedy Growler

Okay, Bigs is settling in really nicely, right... He loves and adores Kaley, she is totally his mommy, he follows her around, watches her get ready for school, sleeps with her, sits in her lap while she is on the computer, lucky girl.

He is even meeting the other kitties and everyone is playing pretty nice and getting alone quite well.

Bigs is a super sweet cat that purrs all of the time. When you come in the room and he has not seen you for a while he will roll on his back and ask you to rub his tummy. He is just a super sweet cat.

We took him to the vet the other day to start his shot and such. He weighed in at 1 pound!!!!

The vet said that we needed to introduce crunchy food to him.

The greedy little growler does have a fiesty streak in him, he finished the entire bowl, guess you could say he liked it.

Thank God he is also a very smart little kitty because he also figured out really quick that I was just messing with him and I did not REALLY intend to take his food away.  He does not growl anymore.

Sweet little teddy bear.

UPDATE

My original video was to long and would not upload.  Bigs has started doing the growling thing again so I took a shorter video and it uploaded.

8-10-11 Bigs is about 4lbs.

Buddy's???

We have 7 cats....  It amazes me when I watch the animal hoarding shows on T.V. or I hear of a family that has 20 cats. I think, Wow, wonder what daily life in their house is like? Every time we get a new cat it is always such a process for them to "make friends" with each other. I personally feel pretty lucky because we don't have to many problems with cat fights but they do happen. First of all Cuddles, we call her the crabby old lady, she does not appreciate any of the other cats. She will growl and hiss and even take a wack at any fur baby walking by, they pretty much know to leave her alone. To bad for her, she should have been in an only pet house.  I won't give her up though because she seems to manage okay and I think she would not do well being re-homed considering that when we moved to our new house she spent the first three years under our bed. She would come out in the middle of the night for the little box and food. Now most of her day is spent on the ottoman and every now and then I even catch her playing with a toy mouse.

Tigger has been nick named the bully kitty before Simon came along Milo got picked on regularly. Poor guy he is so sweet, does not deserve it. But Tigger would stalk and chase Milo and come back to me with wide eyes and black fur stuck in his claws, thank God he only got fur.  Now that we have Simon he takes most of the hits from my little bully, Tigger shows up with grey fur in his claws or in his mouth. Sometimes I wonder if it is just play but by the look on Simon's face... I don't think he likes that game.

Gracie and Sadie came into the picture and guess what, now the bully is being bullied, by two girls (ha ha), I love it. Tigger is scared to death of the little girls and will go all the way around a room to avoid them.  When we first got Sadie and Gracie they were pretty rough with all of the other babies but they are getting much better now, I can see friendships slowly building. Maybe one day they may even be able to share some nap time together.  If Tigger and Simon can do it, so can the bitty bully's.

                                               For a long time I never though I would see this.

                                                  Simon rolled over, even better, I love it!!!!!

Another day: Simon came up and laid by Tigger he was so fast asleep he did not realize Simon was there.

                             Simon took advantage of that....   REVENGE ON THE ORANGE BULLY!!!!!!!

                                                          Tigger knew he was there then.
We still have little kitty's fights here and there but we are doing much better and that makes the kitty mommy happy. Sadie and Gracie are working on being little ladies instead of bitty bully's.

Thank God for my food...

Simon, my Maine Coon has a very neat thing that he does. I love to see him do it and lately he has been doing it a lot.

The breeder that we got him from tells me that it is called a "begging" gene. She said that Simons grandfather also does it.  But sometimes I like to think that he is thanking God for his food.

But... he has also been known to do this in the window sill, while he is watching the birds. So with that I can see that he would be "begging" the birdies to come back.

                                                                    How cute is that?


                                                        I hope that put a smile on your face.

And we have a name!

KK has decided to name her super tiny little kitten P.T. Bigs, "Bigs" for short (ha ha).  The P.T. is in honor of the neighbor that found him in his garage and kindly brought him to us, P.T. are his initials.

Mr. Bigs as I like to call him (or little man) has truly been a gift. I don't know yet why we have him but I believe he came to us for a reason, after all 6 cats were plenty we truly did not need a 7th.  He has been a joy, he really loves kk.  He follows her around her room and chases her feet. He is in her lap when she is at her computer, and she is sleeping on the floor with him because we don't want him to fall off of her bed (it is really high) and for the most part he sleeps with her. Being a kitten he is up a little during the night playing but he comes right back to her when he gets tired again.

I have to admit that I am a bit jealous of  her. My cats show me love and attention, but not like that. Sam a cat that I had for 17 years would get in my lap occasionally and she slept with me almost every night, getting under my covers and snuggling with me, I loved this and I miss it and her a lot. But I am happy for kk that she now gets the experience that I have had that has brought me to love cats so much. My Simon will sleep with me a couple of nights a week and even snuggle one or two of those nights but....  I really miss a cuddle from a fur baby every night.

Bigs is a playful little man.  Talk about making someone laugh - he can do it. He pounces and does summer salts, he chases toes and fingers under a blanket, he does all of the adorable things that little kittens do and somehow we are always amazed at how much cutter this one is.

This little cuttie new exactly what to do to steal our hearts....   WE REALLY LOVE HIM.

Chicken Anyone?

I love cats, each one has their own unique personallity. My original four (so to say), Milo, Tigger, Simon, and Cuddles all have pretty good table maners for the most part. When we eat a meal the cats don't beg or try to get in our plate unless maybe they have not yet had their own dinner. Cuddle's is most likley to break the"rule" especially for some yummy chicken.

Well, Sadie and Gracie were both adopted from a pet shelter and both of the bio's that they had for these girls indicated that they had lived in cat colonys. With that being said you know that they have had to beg and fight for food. These two little sweeties are well fed every day but.... One day I brought home some chicken from the grocery store deli for my lunch. I was so hungry that I just stood at the island in the kitchen and started eating. Next thing I know Sadie is on the island staring at my chicken then before I know it....

Sadie has a paw on each of my hands and she is ripping and tearing at my chicken.

Then tweedle dee (Gracie) wants in on the action.

She was being a little more lady like.

Needless to day that I did not finish eating that piece of chicken. When the fun was done it when in the garbage can. We have only had the girls for about 5 weeks now and we are working on teaching them house rules but I guess they are just doing what they are use to doing. Anyway....

                                                      How can you resist these faces????