Kittie Kats

For those of you who haven't met our cats & for those of you who already know and love our little furry friends, here they are.  I felt like I should show them off a bit since they've been such good kitties even with their banishment to the outside world.  Actually they still come inside on occasion, but much less frequently than before the baby came.

This is Squeaks, aka "Little" or "Little-Bittle."  She is balancing on the railing with her legs hanging over the sides.  Her favorite pastimes are wrestling with Indie, fighting with Miko, and anxiously trying to get ice that may fall on the floor whenever the someone gets ice from the freezer.  Her newest trick is acting like a water dog when I water the garden, running through the water and trying to 'bite' it.  I found her abandoned out by a peach tree orchard when I was on a walk over a year ago and she came home with me.  We were going to give her away so we didn't name her, but called her the Little One which stuck last past her actually being named.  We originally thought she was a boy and when we took 'him' to be neutered, the vet informed us that we couldn't neuter him, but we could spay her.  Fortunately, Squeaks is a name that goes both ways and she as soft as a mink coat.

This is Miko (aka Schmiko, Schmeeks, Meeks) and she is oldest sister.  Miko gets annoyed with Little's antics and the two girl cats have frequent squibbles for no apparent reason.  Miko loves to be inside but she also loves to eat so sometimes it is a toss-up for her whether she would rather go outside to eat when we feed her or try to run inside and hide.  She has spent a couple nights hiding in various closets when we literally couldn't find her.  She also a litter box snob and will sometimes have 'accidents' on the bathroom rug near the litter box if another cat has 'dirtied' the box before her.  Her favorite position to sleep is on her back, legs outstretched so that she looks dead. We're glad that she came to be our cat after being an orphan for her early kittenhood (still eats like an orphan as her portly figure shows below - sorry about the unbecoming photo, Meeks!).

This is Indiana Jones (aka Indie, Bindie, or Binder) and he is intently about to catch a bug of some sort while Miko watches.  You can't see his uneven white socks in the pic, but they are always greyish brown because he's dirty.  He is the only boy and a hunter and adventurer by nature and frequently comes home with stickers in his coat or cobwebs on his face.  He is the only cat that we purposefully adopted from another family.  But there's no such thing as a free pet!  Indie has been to the vet the most.  Beside vaccines/neuter, he had an eye infection over a year ago, got a fox tail stuck in his eye (emergency vet trip for that one), ate something bad and was vomiting and had diarrhea, and currently, his third set of eyelids is visible over part of his eyes implying that he is sick.  (The vet doesn't know what is wrong with him without doing a whole panel of blood work etc, so he's on antibiotics which seem to help as the eyelids are slowly receding back to normal.)  He's working on using up all of his 9 lives, but we're glad that he's  tough guy.

Here is our hummingbird feeder which the cats believe we did just to torture them.  In fact, they aren't all that interested anymore because they can't ever seem to get close to them little birds.

Finally, a random pic...  Here's our new bedding that we got from Crate & Barrel, thanks to an old gift card that was nearly forgotten.  Yeah!! (Even better than finding $5 in your pocket of your jeans.)  Thanks for getting this stuff for us Josh.