Prospect of Moving to a New House

After hanging out together for the past 10 months or so, the time has come for us to move to a new house with our human parents!

Yes...that's right. Our parents put in a bid on a house, set to close in mid-November. What does this mean for us? More space! We won't have to bump into each other and block doorways for each other. Our Mom and Dad have even told us that the litter box situation will improve and there might be a place where we can go and sit outside! Outside!

So while the prospect of riding to the new house in a car isn't the best, and the chaos of packing and moving is due to set in, we all know (and we are unanimous) that it will be better for us in the long run!

Cats Hurking

Suppose no cat is immune, and certainly there's no better topic to discuss here than that of cats barfing. Yes, vomiting. Not profusely, but loudly. Preferably at night, loud enough to wake those humans enjoying a nice slumber.

Alexa has become the indicator that food has run out/is running low in the drop feeder. Instead of just begging like most cats, she eats what she can, drinks a whole mess of water and barfs. It's happened twice this week. Then Ashley took her turn on a quilt on top of one of her perches. Yummy.

So Stat hasn't given in to the barfing phenomenon. Yet. Instead he just poops on the floor to show his support. Thanks man. We appreciate the thought and effort.

Ganging up on Stat

Poor Stat. The two girls have ganged up on him.

Okay, so it isn't as bad as it sounds probably. Of course, Ashley and Stat have never been best buddies, but Alexa has cozied up to him a couple of times. But now, for some reason, Alexa has gained a bit of confidence as a result of the move/merging of households. And as a result, she comes to the defense of her baby sister, Ashley. Yes, Alexa has been seen either smacking Stat or pouncing on him when she thinks Ashley is being upset by Stat.

But kitty life isn't that bad. Just last night, Stat and Ashley were on the bed together...TOUCHING. They've been on the bed together at the same time (while the people were there sleeping too), but on opposite ends of the bed. They even slept together (no people) on the bed, within sight of each other. This was TOUCHING. With full knowledge that the other was there! Oh how it brings tears to the eyes!

Making Progress - Ashley and Stat

We might have had a relationship break-thru this past weekend! As we all know, Ashley and Stat don't exactly see eye-t0-eye on alot of things. Actually they don't see eye-to-eye on much of anything except for food and pooping outside the litterbox on occasion. In fact, Ashley takes every opportunity to hiss at Stat. Stat doesn't usually do much in return, aside from occasinally trying to play with her and really pissing her off.

But for the past few weeks, this hisses have gotten less frequent. And on Friday, much to the astonishment of both Amy and Mike, the two of them were caught sleeping near each other on the bed! Not a mistake, seeing as how both of them knew the other was there, and neither wanted to move for a couple of hours!

As for other progress, all three kitties are sleeping on the bed, all at the same time, during the night.

It's a small step to kitty harmony and peaceful coexistance.

Cat sex mistakes

The title isn't having to do with *cat sex*. In fact, seeing as how all 3 of us have been spayed or neutered (not both), we don't really have the desire to engage in those activities.

Anyway, it has come to our attention (through spying on conversations that take place amongst our humans), that there have been a couple of gender issues surrounding other cats. As in, the owners of said cats mistakenly took them for the wrong sex! How could they!

Granted, it was easy to tell that Ashley and Alexa were female, seeing as how they each had a pink card, not a blue one when they were adopted from the humane society. Stat, we're sure was the same. Unmistakably a boy. Not to mention that he SEEMS more masculine (and his large size is definitely part of that), and Ashley and Alexa more feminine. Having said that, we could see perhaps how someone might not be able to tell the sex of a young kitten. They all act pretty much the same way, and they are all the same size, roughly.

But...there's some key features of boy kitties as opposed to girls. First, boys have testicles (un-neutered ones). Perhaps these features might not be visible as kittens, and they are certainly not present when they get fixed. That is excusable. Second, girls have a second opening down there that boys definitely don't. This should be easily visible at kittenhood, as well as after being spayed! Come on. We're happy cats. We walk around with our tails in the air, showing our business to anyone whether they want to see or not.

Two instances, involving 3 cats, have come to our attention. In all instances, it is that a true male cat was mistakenly thought to be female! Not the other way around, of course. Perhaps alot of humans have the notion that all cats by default are female. This is not the case. Otherwise we couldn't procreate.

Status of Stat's Nose

Well, Mike reports that Stat's nose is all healed up. Took a little while yes, but neither of the humans were looking too closely for a while either.

So what happened? During the big move between Bozeman and Sparks, Stat had the benefit of certain tranquilizer medications. Apparently, that wasn't really a benefit when Stat freaked out in his cage and ripped a chunk of skin off of his own nose (as well as all of the fairly newly placed claw caps). His usually black nose was a bit scabby for a while, then it turned kind of white-ish and now it's back to the cute black it was before.

Lesson learned? Um, I think given similar cirucumstances with cage + tranquilizer, Stat would do it again. Just like he keeps on eating the roses, and keeps on horfing them up.

Our First Political Commentary

Well, aside from the day to day experiences of us three felines, the purpose of this blog is to also present our furry perspective on random topics. Why not start off our first commentary with an overview of our position on the political situation in this country. Other reason being is that our mommy, who helps us type, isn't here during the week to witness our shenanegans.

Moving on. All three of us are decidedly NOT Bush fans. We can't vote (seeing as how we aren't 18, and we aren't human...bummer), but we definitely would have swung our vote towards Kerry. Some people might have thought Ashley to be a Bush lover, because she sometimes might understand what is is like to be a whiney little f*ck, but she is solidly with the rest of us.

We also think that someone with an IQ lower than ours (keeping in mind that we are cats...and while we are not stupid by any means, the whole human IQ test thing is an irrelevant measure of our intelligence) shouldn't be running the country. At least we have the good sense to cover our shit. Bush obviously doesn't. He makes more of a stink than we do, which, if you've smelled our litterbox lately, says enough.

Okay, so we don't like Bush either because he's got a dog. Stupid reason, but it's something that relates very near and dear to us. I bet if he came to our home, he wouldn't stop to pet us.

So that's our take. Are there other reasons to dislike Bush? Sure. Do we care? Maybe not. So long as there is a nice bed to sleep on, humans to pet us, and the occasional dish of wet-food, we'll be satisfied. Never know. Bush might take that away from us.