Apple A Day … (or that is a A kitty Treat …)

 The Micro Panthers went to the vet for their initial Kitten Wellness visit today.

"They're perfect!" — Dr. Julia Mulvaney (Kenmore Veterinary Hospital)

Photo Friday: Turbo Ball Users (TNG)

All the cats who been long-term residents of the Kitten Farm have loved Turbo Balls. 

Now we have two new users.

Lucas (top) and Midnight (Left) with the Turbo Ball.

Catzillas TNG

Oh my.

We just weighed the Panthers for second time, giving our first week to week comparison.

• Lucas is up to 6 lbs, 8 oz (He was 6 lbs 2 oz last week.)
  
• Midnight is up to 6 lbs, 11 oz.  (He was 6 lb 1 oz last week).
  

Neither are flabby.

I've been calling them Micro Panthers this week.  I may need to go back to Domestic Panthers, because I'm not sure they're gonna be "Micro" much longer.

Go! Go! Catzilla!

Worthy Investment

One smart thing we did for the Domestic Panthers around when they arrived last month was junk the big worn cat trees and get new ones. Six foot cat trees are not cheap, and we got five of them. The only big one we kept with the newer front hall tree (below). 

Given the boys have been daily occupants of all six trees, it was an investment well spent.

The domestic panthers sharing the downstairs front hall tower

Back to our roots …

Have we mentioned how delighted we are that we went back to our roots, adopting a bonded pair of kittens. It's refreshing after over 10 years of of a border war is between Penwiper, Oscar and their housemates.

Quietly playing on the lower stairs. We love it.

 

Photo Saturday: Cuddling by Leaps and Bounds

Lucas & Midnight cuddling Katherine on her Futon

Katherine finally got a photo of the Domestic Panthers together.

It should be noted that they spend a lot of time next to each other under the futon, but it's impossible to get a good photograph due to the low light under there.

We're delighted by several things:

• They are truly a bonded pair:
• They tend to sleep together under the futon.
• When they are awake, there is no ongoing border war.
• They do spar, but in the friendly manner of Cat Fu like their departed uncles the Brothers Catzilla.
• They treat under the futon as their home base, but it's not like they hide under there. They sally forth without fear.
• Individually, they are each following Whitey in their own way:
• Midnight already routinely scales the 61" office cat tower, and has reached up to touch the top edge of the 7 foot (84") bookshelf. Once he works up his nerve to make the two foot vertical leap to the summit, he'll have earned his Spider-Cat Merit Badge. 
• Lucas has discovered Katherine likes to bend her blanket covered knees on the futon to support her work, which makes a great tunnel for catnaps underneath.

(Photo Credit: Katherine Derbyshire)

Under New Mangement

As of this past Wednesday, The Kitten Farm PNW is under new management.

Being adults, we had a plan: We could use the lack of cats in the Kitten Farm to clean up certain things (like painting walls, installing carpet, replacing cat towers, etc).

Mostly, it didn't happen. Katherine was missing her daily kitten snuggles, and so by Sunday afternoon we were at MEOW Cat Rescue looking for sociable bonded kittens. We saw a couple of pairs that seemed interesting, but after a busy weekend speed dating humans, they mostly wanted to nap. 

So we went back Wednesday earlier in the day. We agreed one of the two pairs was too shy to sociable, but other pair had enough definite potential to become new upper management.

Thus we present the Domestic Panthers:

• Lucas is the larger of two, and a Domestic Medium Hair; he's black with a silver undercoat.
• Midnight is the slightly smaller of two, and a Domestic Short Hair; he's a purer black, but is a ghost tabby.

Midnight during his first evening with us

Lucas during his first evening with us

The name Midnight is obvious. As for Lucas, search on the web for "Lucas, Prince of Darkness".