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Just a short post today.
Sometimes Daisy likes to get long.....
Long in the sunpuddle or...
...long on the desk chair, well, either one works for our little gray girl.
She can be long getting into a window, too.
We've also discovered that she can be extreeeemly long when she's trying to ninja some of your sandwich....
Did someone say 'sandwich'???
Shhhh....I'm off to sneak a bite... have a lovely Hallowe'en!
We've had a good enough week here at ChezRanger. It 000000finally seems to be fall (note: Daisy typed all those zeroes! She's saying 'Hi!'). Kind of nice to not have to deal with the wet heat that is the norm here through September (at least...).
Daisy continues to settle in. She is a wonderfully engaging kitten. She's a loudmouth, but that's a positive necessity in this household.
She does have a bit of kitten haplessness about her. She ran into the kitchen and tried to jump on one of the stools. She either slipped ont he tile or miss-timed her jump and hit the edge of the seat *with her head*. Knocked the thing over. She seemed fine. Gave me the "I meant to do that" look and successfully hopped on the other stool where she was most cosseted.
Playing is her raison d'etre. She'll play with anything and everything, everywhere. I don't have many shots of her getting her wild on because 1) I'm playing!! and 2) she's fast!. I did manage to get these the other day.
She LOVES that mouse. She managed to gnaw it off the string so that she can carry it around and kill it anywhere she wants. She takes it around the house, sometimes carrying it, sometimes playing cat hockey with it. It usually ends th e day in the front room, but starts the day on our bed. She loves that toy.
She's also partial to her stuffed squirrel.
I LOVE YOU TO DEATH!!!!
REALLY!!! I MEAN TO DEATH!!!!!!!
I did manage to get a few shots off my phone that were taken back in the first day or two we had Daisy. Here she is, being coy.
Okay...I'm still not sure about this, but you seem like okay-ish people.... Don't worry. The iron was off and unplugged.
I'll put up a few more next week.
Hope you all have an enjoyable one!
Today is Daisy's one month gotcha-versary! We've been getting to know each other better. She's coming to terms with our odd human rules, such as "no cats on the dining table", "no cats on the kitchen counter", "no cats on the dining table", "no clawing the couch", "no cats on the dining table", "no clawing the dining room chairs", "no cats on the dining table", "you can't eat my sandwich", "NO CATS ON THE DINING TABLE!!!!" and "yes, you have to wear your collar".
Daisy's a very good-natured cat. She seems to want to get along. She's doing well picking up on subtle clues, such as the glares she gets when she puts a paw on the dining table, but we're still in the "no means 'don't get caught'" phase. She wants to be where we are and see what we're doing. She has already taken to helping with the chores. And by helping, I mean obstructing us at every turn, and doing so in such an adorable way that we can't help but enjoy.
We've learned that she's a climber. A at tree of some tall sort seems to be in our future.
We've learned that she has two common approaches to life. One we call Lazy Daisy:
what are you.....???? I can't even.......
She enjoys just hangin' out on her "S" watching the humans do their stupid human stuff. She also has several pillows that she likes to relax on.
what're we watching this show for? don't you guys get animal planet?
As you can tell, she often crashes here when we watch t.v..
Her other usual approach to life is the one we call Crazy Daisy.
Die! Die! Die!!!!!
oh! tryin' to sneak up on me, huh?!? I'ma kill you again!!!
I've never lived with a kitten before, so I didn't appreciate how non-stop kinetic they are. If I ever managed to get any good pics of her speedy little self, I'll post those, too. For now, you'll have to settle for these.
I'm really pleased that she likes to wrestle with the carrot. We've bought her many and many toys of her own, but this hand-me-down carrot was one of Maddie's faves. It makes me feel good to see it delighting our current cat. Daisy carries it all over. Even brought it to bed in the wee hours to play around our feet.
Thank you, Tom, for the dietary suggestions. We'll definitely check those out. Perhaps, since she was a bottle-baby, she didn't get enough intestinal flora from her mom.
Thank you for the kind remarks welcoming Daisy to her new home and to the blogosphere.
I'll keep on chronicling the adventures of Daisy if you guys keep dropping by.
Meet Daisy.
Hi!
Yep. We're trying the kitten thing again! We've had her for about 3 1/2 weeks now. We adopted her from AARF, one of our fine local groups. It's actually the group that we got Maddie from way back in 2001 (I'm sure you can tell that they have a sterling record with us!).
Daisy is about 4 1/2 months old. No one seems to be really sure about her early life, but she was a bottle baby. She is a very snuggly kitten.
She is very playful. She LOVES her mousies and carries them all over.
She even carries them into bed with us when we hit the sack. We really don't mind the hurricane of feline energy as she tosses and attacks the mice. It's nice to know that she's there. The mice also keep her from attacking feet.
She enjoys playing under the chair...
...and resting atop it.
So far, the only issues we've had with the sweet girl are intestinal. The food we were planning to give her did not fit well with her gut and gave her a mad case of pooey-bum. We took her to the vet to make sure there was nothing dire happening (there wasn't) and we've been experimenting with various other brands, waiting to find the magic recipe.
Daisy is taking it like a trooper. I think she'd eat a PB&J if we left it on the counter unattended for too long. She did mount a kitchen-table raid one day, and gnawed the corner off one of LadyRanger's new-made loaves. We had to have a family chat about that. I'm sure she understood perfectly and that it will never happen again.
She is a very vocal kitten, with quite a vocabulary of trills, murrrs and meows. She's a great conversationalist!
As befits kittens, Daisy is a very curious and brave little creature. She's already been spelunking in the basement. She's made a highway under our bed. She leaps into closets with abandon. She's always ready to hop into an open window and smell whatever the outside has to offer.
oooh! good smells!
Daisy also enjoys a good relax after a romp.
As always, the sun-puddle is a cat-magnet. It soothes my soul to see another cat there.
We've had a few issues with inadvertent claw-snags in the upholstery. We're mostly attributing those to kitten-clumsiness, but we've had to take a few defensive measures. Daisy doesn't seem to mind.
A chair fort! For me?? Wow! You guys are the best!!
We'll tell her the truth later, when she's grown-up. Of course, if she attacks the couch again, she may have to learn to deal with claw-caps. Not looking forward to trying to put those on. We've already trimmed her claws and she was more Maddie-like about it than we'd hope she would be. <sigh>
She has cute little toe-hawks!
She is a wonderful little cat!
And she's letting us sleep through the night, which is a blessing.
After our experience with Lucy, we were really nervous about this, as I'm sure you can imagine. We're still a bit cautious, wondering if this will all go sideways at some near point in the future.
As for now, though, we think Daisy, Daisy, Oh Dear! has found her forever home.
The sun has resumed it's proper course in the heavens. We have a cat.
Heehee! oh stop it, you! you're going to turn my head.....
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