Resuming blog

Time to kickstart the resumption of this blog with some photos of the Next Generation.

This is Stoney otherwise know as THE SILENT ONE because he never speaks. His full name is Caspar Livingstone. Caspar is in honour of Caspar the Friendly Ghost as a wink at his Granddad the Ghost Cat and his uncle Ghost. Livingstone is in honour of David Livingstone the explorer since Stoney was an intrepid explorer at a very early age. I regularly found him wandering far afield from his siblings Pebble and Rocky.

Here he was PRETENDING to do his "I'm a Wild Tiger in the Serengheti" thing but he was actually just trying to get into the picture of the flowers.

Still pretending and then

The truth comes out. " Can I has pikchure taken Pweese?"

When and how to say no to Kittens

Jasper like all the kittens finds things and turns them into toys. In this case a pencil. I always try to keep an eye on what they do just to make sure that first of all they are not palaying with something that could harm them and secondly to make sure it is something I do not mind them playing with. That is something that they will not damage no matter what they do or something that I do not mind if they do damage it.

If it is something they they should not play with I just take it away from them and put it away or out of reach. No shouting, no smacking or any negative reaction just a simple no and remove from them.
In this case I decided that it was ok. I was just worried at first that he was chewing the lead and might break it.

This is a state that my desk often ended up in with four kittens making themselves at home and falling asleep.
They were usually pretty good in that they were remarkably well behaved and only tried chewing cords every now and then. The thing is I was very careful to socialise them into being sensible well behaved kittens not by shouting at them or hitting them which unfortunately some people think is how you should train cats and dogs.
Maybe it works to an extent with dogs in that they learn quickly to fear doing things that result in you hitting them or shouting at them but that just means you have a dog that is terrified of you. I have always found it extremely disturbing how dogs treated like that grovel at their "Master's" slightest tone of anger. I'm not going to say anything as to the psychological profile of people like that.

Cats on the other hand while they might seem to be learning what you want them to learn will actaully hate you even if they fear you. Unlike the dog they will not come grovelling on their bellies waging their tails hoping and begging for your approval. No. Cats demand you earn their trust and will never come to someone they do not trust.

Jasper wants to go back to sleep

Poor Jasper was fast asleep in the electric frying pan and I could not resist waking him up to say hello.
After plaintively complaining about being woken up Jasper briefly answered my silly question and made it clear he was going to catch a few more Zees. http://youtu.be/SbIHrMxuCKc

World Cup Training

The kittens found a golf ball and decided to start training for the World Cup. Here is one of the kittens training for World Cup.

Whiskers on kittens. The begining

A few months ago I moved from the house I was renting at Fagali'i Uta to the old family home at Alafua which was being renovated. When I moved I brought a cat named Scratchit that had attached itself to me while I was living at Fagali'i Uta. Not long after Scratchit and I had moved in my sister Sulimoni brought her cat Ninja Cat and her newly born kittens to Alafua because they had been accused of being the source of fleas that were attacking my dad at the house in Malifa.
I had been making comments about Scratchit and a Fagali'i Uta neighbour's cat who I had dubbed Fat Cat on Facebook as well as my blog Plants and Critters and started commenting on on the kittens activities as well. Then following some comments about too much kitten news on my Facebook page I decided to set up a separate blog just for the kittens.

This then is the blog about the four kittens: Jasper, Ichigo, Dee and Tweedle, their mother; Ninja Cat and their aunty Scratchit.