Week 3 with Ying and Yang!

It has been a little since the last blog.  A week now?  The kids are doing fine.  The typical things they do are the following.  They are quite the opposite of each other still.  Sadie is still skiddish most of the time while Oliver is like "Hey, I like you guys!".

 

Oliver has become very comfortable sleeping with us.  So much that last night, he managed to squeeze in between the pillows.  He is also a very sound sleeper.  He can be petted and will not wake. He seems to enjoy mostly flopping down on my chest.

Sadie has taken a liking to sleep up on the bed as well.  Though at our feet when she with us.  Once, I had gotten up to get some water.  The 2 minutes that I was gone, my bed space was taken. 

Oliver has been following either my wife or I where ever we go in the house.  Very inquisitive.  Especially when one of us is in the kitchen preparing food.  He can be found sitting there in the middle of the floor space.  He has not learned to get to the top of the counter top.  But, he is able to surf the dinner table by hopping up onto a chair, then finally onto the table top.

We have yet to see Sadie on the table.  She is becoming more and more brave.  She is not stuck in our bedroom.  The two have been with us for just over 3 weeks now.  Last week, we started to leave the door open to allow them to explore the house on their own.  They are pretty content being with us at night.  They do like to play.  The early morning hours they do like to move about and play.  We will hear a thud in the guest bath.  It is just Sadie jumping up into the bath tub.  They will also chase each other back and forth in the hallway.  We will see a small flash of fur of Oliver followed by a larger flash of fur of Sadie.  Then, the opposite with the small flash of fur chasing the larger.

Oh, and they are gamers!  I downloaded an app for the iPad that resembles a laser pointer dot.  If they jump on the dot, they score a point with a chime.  It is quite cute to see.

Sadie is kind of smart as she will get her paw underneath the iPad in hopes of getting that dot.

I did a terrible thing to Oliver on Friday before heading off to work.  I was down getting my coat from the closet and saw this short stubby tail of Oliver sticking out.  I did not think much of it as he seems to come to our bottom level to explore.  I walked away to put my coat on and shoes.  Not thinking the few minutes away (maybe 1 minute), I thought that I had seen him go upstairs to Sadie.  I shut the door and we headed off to work.  We got home after the work day and heard this meow.  I am looking around downstairs as my wife runs upstairs.  It dawned on me and opened the door to the closet.  He comes trotting out and goes upstairs.  He did not seem too upset. 

But, tell you what, from that day on, we have been seeing more and more of Sadie on the lower levels.  We can only imagine that when Oliver in the closet was meowing, Sadie heard and was on the other side of the door.  That got her out of her comfort zone to explore the house.  We still feel so bad!

Oliver so likes the attention.  And almost wants to dominate it.  Makes it hard working with Sadie.  She allows us to pet her at times.  Since the closet episode, she kind of sits there in view instead of darting under the bed.  Though, she is still skiddish.  I would say 2/3rds of the time.  I know that they are kittens born in October 2013, but she has either the play switch or sleep switch.  Not a lot of sit there and be scratched.  On the bed in the morning, she seems to be alright getting scratched under the neck or around the ears.  Only for a short time. She gets to feeling so good that she starts to lightly claw or even start to bite. 

We will see them wash each other too.  But in about a minute for Sadie, the licking and washing turns into biting and they are off rough housing.  Oliver does have some eye issues on his left.  We think it is from rough housing and Sadie got him with a poke.  They still play though. 

I did got a taste of them during the day when I was at home sick.  They pretty much played all morning with the afternoon of rest and sleep.  And about the time my wife got home, they were starting to move about looking for their food.  Oliver did come down to explore, ignoring me all together.  He did find an interest with the back yard and the birds by the feeder.

We are training them that we are the alpha felines by feeding them on a schedule.  After about a half hour or so, we will pick up the dishes.  This does seem to get Sadie out and about.  So much so that if we head towards the “feed” room at times, she beats Oliver there.  Tail straight up and appearing so friendly. 

With her is seems that there are some good days, and some bad days.  The good is that she is out, scent marking everything.  The bad is that she runs under the bed.  A few times over the weekend, she almost seemed to want to scent mark my legs.  But, same morning, she is lounging on the landing appearing calm and as I approach her, she dashes upstairs. Really not sure what to do.

Well, that is the latest for Oliver and Sadie.