Summerhill Kitten Farm

We have been remiss posting on this blog, with most of our recent Penwiper updates going to FB. There was not much had going on really, exc...

 As I recover from my March 17th left knee replacement, Nurse Penwiper is looking after me. Someone is Feeling Appreciated and Cuddled.

"Dragons live forever, but not so little kittens …" At 13 1/2 years old, Penwiper is still a reasonably limber jumper & climbe...

At his last routine exam in early December, we were told Penwiper needed his teeth cleaned and gingivitis taken care of. This was delayed b...

Since the early days of the Summerhill Kitten Farm, the Brothers Catzilla loved diving into luggage , including each one stretching out in h...

It has been seven weeks since Oscar went over the Rainbow Bridge, leaving Penwiper as the sole Feline Overlord in residence at the Kitten Fa...

 From my sister Catherine, Bootsie has been helped over the Rainbow Bridge: Bootsies, 2006-2022. We are so sad to let her go, but she had a ...

With the fading and passing of the Brothers Catzilla in 2020 , we are very aware of the limited lifespan of our feline overlords. We saw it ...

The cat weigh-in was smooth as silk again last night. Doing it weekly helps, as it gets them into a routine. I realized the scale wasn't...

For the record, Penwiper is our only cat ever who trusted humans enough to be cradled on his back like a human baby and be petted there. PW ...

On day like this, with somber hearings on Capitol Hill that will lift no one's spirits, Penwiper earns his kibbles as the Chief Snuggle...

Penwiper is living proof that, like humans, cats roll for intelligence and wisdom separately.  He'll get into a confrontation with a hou...

Penwiper may be the creature in the Kitten Farm PNW with the strongest drives and habits. When Whitey climbs a tower to reach the top of t...

Day three of the inmates running of the asylum. This morning I didn't have to get out of bed to see what the boys had done overnight. ...

The inmates running the asylum would be so  much easier if they didn't rumble with each other. And they have been, or Whitey has been wa...

Wednesday  morning, something happened which I'm not sure has occurred since Penwiper arrived years ago -- all the cats more or less in ...

While the original Summerhill Kitten Farm (built in 1890) was transformed into an electronic cottage before we had cats, these days many of ...

Those who have followed our cats for any length of time knows that Whitey is the Spider-cat: he loves heights, and generally never falls off...

What we do for our cats ... This video shows part of the morning food ballet, from after putting PW away to as I dish up Billy:   Penwip...

Penwiper, at the tender young age of 10 and one-half years, decided the top of the dining room hutch needed inspecting yesterday. This of co...