Monday night was pretty much like the night before. We played with them for about a half hour. Sadie did come out a little to catch the string toy. Though close to the bed for a fast escape. She is a little better than the day before. Still not wanting to be petted. I will let her sniff my fingers. And that is it. Eventually, I will press.
I had emailed the cattery where we got the kids to let her know further with all that has gone on. I am sure with all the other adopted cats they have sent out, ours is not the unusual case. Interesting suggestion for Sadie is to get a hold of chicken flavored baby food and offer it to her as a treat. Kind of coax her out and show her that she may get a treat when she sees us.
Oliver is still coughing and sneezing. Fortunately, no discharge from his nose, which is a good sign. And the cattery confirmed this that it is not an issue. Though, we still were going to keep the appointment for the vet. It was suggested to just keep them around us and get used to us before stressing them out with a vet visit.
They also stink when using the litter box. Again, new surroundings, new animals (us) and possibly the all-natural food we are feeding them. That being said...
Oliver is the energizer kitty. He is playing what seems to be all the time. Even when we are down in the living room, we hear this little kitty running back and forth from the bedroom into the bathroom and back. Yes, loud trotting through the ceiling.
I still cannot believe how connected they are and my wife and I are glad we got two. Oliver is very adventurous and is out exploring. If he meows a few times where ever he is, this will get Sadie to come out of hiding to see what he is talking about. This includes if he wanders downstairs. Yet, when she is in her comfort cave, he is either in bed with her or on the floor in front of the bed.
I am slowly teaching him how to drink from the spout of the water fountain. I would pretend to drink from the spout making slurping noises and I see this pretty little face watching me so inquisitively. Ignores the water and sniffs my nose and mouth. And doesn't understand why I am laughing so hard.
I almost got him to fall asleep in my hand. He loves a light scratch under his chin and around his lower jaw.
Oliver is also becoming used to us standing. These big animals (us) walking into the room would scare him and he would run under the bed. He now stands there and watches our feet. Perhaps to step aside if we are coming close to him when we approach.
He is also able to jump up onto the bed himself. Most of the time, he will leap up 2/3rds of the 32-inches and use his nails to crawl up. A few times, he was able to get a running leap and make it all the way. Course, when he is up there, walking all around on top of us with an occasional flop down to stretch.
Speaking of stretching, he is scent marking everything.
Gave Ollie some exercise. He loves his little mouse. Tossing it down the stairs, he would trot down to get it, hop up the stairs with mouse in mouth, and drop it. Sometimes not too close. But eager to have it tossed again for him to fetch.
Sadie, dear girl! She is so beautiful. I wish she would come out and flaunt it. Her coat is so beautiful! But, taking the time to get her used to the area and us. I know when she comes out of her shell, she will be the queen of the house with Oliver her little minion. For now, she likes her little cave.
They do like their water fountain. It is stainless steel. The top for the water to come out, you can put in an insert for it to pour out either 2 and up to 5 places. We have the one for 4 spouts.
Oliver seeing if the coast is clear!
Oliver in the living room checking out the other scratching post. And more string!
Oliver was downstairs wondering around. And my wife was trying out the new camera. She got this action shot of him jumping away from her work bag. Quite funny!
We were kind of dreading taking them to the vet. With how Sadie reacted trying to get a collar on (still no success). We were expecting getting her into the carry case a big fuss. Got the carrier out and laid it nearby for them to see. Oliver practically trots over and wants in. First cat, that was easy. Now for the second one. She was in her cave. Pulled out the cave, picked her up, and into the carrier. Not much fuss.
They are pretty calm in the carrier. Even while driving. Close to the vet, there were some peeps. Nothing major though as they did quiet down. With the other animals that we had, we decided to go to another vet with these new ones. Plus, we are planning on selling and moving to the east side of Seattle. This would be more convenient for us.
Here they are all hunkered down in the carrier. Oliver alert and ready to protect Sadie as she snoozes waiting for the vet.
Vet visit was not so uneventful. Oliver went first and right on the scale, he got himself 2oz lighter. Yup, right on the scale. Poor little guy was stressed. Little bugger doesn't show it with running about. He had not coughed or sneezed there at the vet. He was given a clean bill of health overall.
Sadie was next. No problems with her either. The Dr. was able to suggest 2 web sites, one in which is written by another vet with some good information on raising pure bred cats. And, is not a "crack-pot", doctor’s phrase exact! And also suggested a bribery tactic to get her out from her little cave. Plus, the way we are feeding them, we have food down for them all the time. She also suggested since we are the alpha cats, we feed the lower ones on the totem pole. This would also get them out with excitement of their owners.
As suspected, their diet change that was sudden made them stinky. We are such terrible parents! We do pass by two pet stores and picked up some feed that the cattery was feeding them. We will slowly change them over to what we originally bought them. The doctor also provided us with a little medicine for Oliver’s "cold". And a digestive medicine for both to get them rebalanced. Nothing major. Funny, the medicine for Oliver is chicken flavored. Wonder whom it was that taste tested it to verify the flavor.
Oh, and the vet also provided us a little scent thing to calm cats. Something like a pheromone reservoir that is plugged in like a glade that is to sooth the kitties and perhaps get them more comfortable to come on out.
We fed them a little and lightly played before bed. Sadie was content in her cave. Since I myself was not feeling good and did not eat for most of the day, I made myself some soup and thought I would eat with them. Oliver was all over me wanting to see what was in the BIGGER bowl. It was amusing. Even when he was crawling up my shirt. Wish we had a picture of it. Here I am with a book on my lap with my soup. Lifted my soup up out of reach from Oliver leaving the book in my lap. He proceeds to turn his back and sit down as if to wait for me to put the bowl back down.
Bed time was fine until about 1:30. Jingle jingle.... Oliver was up and about. And, Sadie too was out for a little. Had a litter box run, drink of water, play in the curtains.... being chased or chasing that invisible mouse! Also jumped up onto the bed for a little hello time with us. That was about a half hour.
Morning came and we needed to get up for work. We are wondering how the day for them went alone. I am pretty confident they will do well. They do play well with each other and have plenty of toys.
Our alarm went off at 5am and 10-minutes later, he decides to visit us. He was all over us, walking, flopping down on us, up over our pillows... So loving. Then, he jumped down when we got the food bowl out for them. Hmm... is this snuggling and loving us just to get us to feed them? Kind of hope so! Or was it the pheromone thing plugged in that has soothed the kitty that doesn't need soothing.
Oh, last thing before I hit publish. Remember he doesn't run under the bed at the sight of us? Well, yesterday afternoon and especially this morning, he will see us come around the corner and walk towards us. He did follow me out the door before I could close it this morning. Left it open and watched him explore the upper level again. We do have a second litter box set in our guest bath. Eventually, this is where the "main" litter box will be. They have found it and are using that when they are out.
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