Stuff

Mom got an update from the family that adopted Sparta now Elliott. As a reminder, he was a birthday gift for their daughter. She is 9 years old now and Elliott is her buddy. They sleep together every night. He waits for her bus to get her home after school. And this past Saturday she was making a movie that required him to wear some business attire.

Mom also ran into Dragon's new mom last week. She is doing well....and discovered their piano. She isn't very good and won't be getting much practice since they are remembering to leave the top down now. She discovered it about 11:30pm one night and danced around on the keyboard.

No kittens yet. Could be a while....but stay tuned.

Santa hat

Mom found a Santa hat....

Wyvern and Dragon were unamused

what was that??

Mom was off last Monday for a vacation day. She was supposed to go to TN to visit her family but there was a change of plans. Mom decided to take the day off anyhow. She ran some errands in the morning and had dinner plans with a friend. Since her afternoon was free she decided to take Chanel out to a garden center and invited Miss Z along (she is a volunteer with the rescue and fosters too).

They spent some time at the garden center - which mom suspects will be more interesting as they get more plants in this spring. On the way home, Z invited mom and Chanel in for a bit. She and her partner have cats, but they are all pretty friendly. Mom left Chanel's harness on and figured if nothing else it would be a good experiment. The adult cats hissed at her first and she responded with a half hearted hiss in return but nothing out of the ordinary for being in a strange place with strange cats.

Z was playing with Chanel and a wand toy when mom got a text from her friend about dinner. Time to leave, so mom scooped up Chanel to put her back in the carrier. She hissed at mom and struggled to get back down. Mom was startled but got her in the carrier and got her harness off. Chanel whined all the way home and smacked at the carrier.

Before we go any further, a couple of things: 1. if mom EVER thinks that Chanel is not enjoying going out in public, everything stops. This whole cat going places thing is based on her enjoying being out and about. 2. A normal trip for them is about 90 minutes.

By the time mom was on the way home, they had been gone over 3 hours. Mom thought maybe Chanel had to pee or something. She gets home, carries Chanel upstairs and opens the carrier. Chanel pops out, does a lap around the living room, kisses Daiquiri and finds a toy. Guess it wasn't a litterbox issue.

As she watched Chanel, she had a thought: she had just witnessed a teenage kitten temper tantrum. Chanel had been perfectly happy playing with the toy and mom ended her fun.

Just to be sure, mom took her out this past weekend to a couple of different pet stores around us. Chanel did great - just like always. Though it must have been "take your dog to the pet store" day so mom and Chanel didn't stay either place very long.

So there you have it - the joys of having a teenage kitten who goes places but doesn't like it when her fun is spoiled and the trip is ended. Heaven help us all....

big adventure

Chanel here.....

As you know, I am working on being a good adventure cat. While mom says I have to learn to walk on my harness and leash, I much prefer to sit at coffee shops or be pushed in carts at stores.

But last Friday was a whole different adventure. See the guys that mom work for were out of town so the mom took me to work with her since it was going to be a short day. I got to inspect her desk and the whole office. She said I was a great assistant holding down her papers and walking on her keyboard.

 They have a second floor loft so I even got to run up and down the stairs.

But being an adventure cat is exhausting, so I made sure to get a good nap once we got home.