I don't know what my husband puts in his underwear...

Well, his pajamas bottoms really, but it seems to be a cat magnet! I think he's keeping cat nip in there or something?

First there was Basil...



Then about 20 minutes later, there was Oscar...


Then this evening as I was having my shower I had a guest...

She shoved her head through the door and tried to lick the water off my legs directly under the water flow! she got a little damp...

James said he find it interesting that all our animals are "special".

Happy Helpers!

We cleaned out the pantry this weekend. There were a lot of foods that needed throwing out. Of course Elly and Bandit were happy to oblige.

(btw the white stuff on the ground is meringue.)



Apparently Bandit REALLY likes golden syrup.

Today I put an empty condensed milk can into the recycling and continued with my cooking. Mum came out and I said something about the can and Mum went to look in the recycling and it had disappeared. Someone had stolen it! I found it and put it back in the garbage and then this happened...


I put it back in the recycling AGAIN and then this happened.



Now they are both asleep on the loungeroom floor.

Dr Dolittle, moths and noisy pants.

When James got home on Friday, we let the dogs in and I was sitting on the couch and then all of a sudden, both dogs and 4 of the cats were all milling around him. He said "what am I? Dr freakin Dolittle?"

Later that night there was a little moth in the lounge room and little Bertie was making his cute little "mewwwwwwwww" noises that he does when he wants something. So James helped him in his quest...






Then he managed to grab it in his paws, and he ate it, and then he opened his mouth to meow and it flew out again lol But then he caught it and ate it successfully.

So, what's it like to live with a Bengal you ask? The answer is simple. Noisy.
On Saturday we were outside doing a little bit of gardening. Lexi HATES when we go outside. She doesn't want to be outside, she just doesn't want US to go outside. I think she is agoraphobic. Can cats be agoraphobic? She doesn't want to be outside, because you take her outside and she continues to bellow. She doesn't bellow when we come back inside.










She is also VERY naughty and back chats and ignores what we tell her.

Jelly babies and boxes!

So Elly always scoffs her food so we slow her down as much as we can. Putting water on the biscuits seems to help, and we feed them separately. So considering how quickly she eats her food, I was very surprised when we gave her a jelly baby a few months ago and it took her AGES to eat it. (Well ages for her...)

Elly and the Jelly




Since we did a clean up, we've had an empty cardboard box sitting in the loungeroom that the cats have claimed (unsurprisingly.) What is surprising is that it's been there for several weeks and no one has pee'd in it, and it still maintains most of it's structural integrity (which considering it often has over 12kg of cat sitting on it is no mean feat!) But tonight Chloe was entertaining me...

When Clunkerbell came to live with us...

So Chloe, or Clunkerbelle as James and I refer to her, was my wedding gift from James.

She was and still is tiny! We thought she was 12 weeks, but the vet seemed to think she was 5 months given she'd lost her kitten teeth already. That was in early March. So now we are almost 5 months later, so should should be mostly grown and she still looks like a kitten compared to others!

Here she is with Basil when we first got her

With Lexi and Bert, again when we first got her

Here she is playing Arma 2 with James

Sleepy kitty, awwww

I will have to take another photo of her compared to the others now! She is so hard to take a photo of.

I shouldn't encourage the dogs to eat cat litter, right?

Today I ponder the question, is it wrong to encourage the dog to eat the cat litter that is scattered all over the floor? In my post from yesterday I mention that Bandit had helped himself to some of the cats (dirty) litter. Tonight I found myself tempted to point out the litter scattered all over the floor. I reminded myself that he isn't a giant dustbuster... well for non food products anyway! Though he is good with cleaning, he licked one of the cupboards in the kitchen for me this evening hehehe.

Here is "I can make myself as small as the cats" Bandit.

Here is young Bandit using my foot warmer as a pillow!!!

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Does anyone else's cat do this when they go to the toilet??



It's strange, right???

How here is a puzzle, Find the Basil!!!

Dogs are gross...

So just before Bandit and Elly were in the bedroom, on my side of the bed. Bandit was wandering around while I was straightening my hair. I turn around and he drops a bundle of dirty cat litter from his mouth onto the bedroom floor *vomit smiley* He ate half and then left the other half for Elly, who also ate it.

Dogs are gross!!!

Other fun stuff this week...

Lexi wanted a ball with a bell and she wasn't letting the bag stop her!



Elly loving her toy!


I'm going to make an effort to upload all the videos and photos I haven't posted and try to post them!

Kitties eating roses

What is it about our cats? They LOVE my roses! I planted a new rose bush and I cut off the 1 blooming flower and my bengal kitties try to eat it!

 

Also here is a cute picture of Bertie sleeping with his mouth partly open.

Cats, Dogs and sick chickens...

Here are the cats getting technical...



Here they are cleaning themselves....



Here is Bandit trying to look adorable...



On a sader note, Soy doesn't look well... We are going to try a few things before we have to make a tough decision.

Chooky chook!

Here are chooky videos...

In #4 you can hear Schnitzels little squeals at around 34 seconds... She normally does more, but today she was subdued. I will try to get another video of her doing it. Until then, here are some chicken antics...

Elly is home!!!

Elly had her cruciate repaired yesterday. We picked her up this afternoon and surprisingly she was walking ok, just slowly.

They said she was very good. The nurses said she was sitting with her giving her pats and she looked a bit sorry for herself, but when the vet brought her out to us she was very happy and walked up to the vet nurses for pats (someone was spoilt at the vets, I think!)

We also seem to have a third chicken laying! The next video will be on Schnitzel and her carry on when we take her food. She gets so excited!!

Elly and Bert

With Elly being inside until her cruciate operation this week, she's getting a lot of love from the kitties ;)

Catch up

Here is my pictorial catch up!

Elly is having more surgery

Elly has done her cruciate and needs surgery! Never dull around here!

Here she is in her makeshift playpen with her little friends 😊

I've been neglectful again!

So, not a huge amount has happened... we have 1 chicken laying eggs! w00t! I will try to take a video of them eating food out of my hand (or should I say stealing! Two of them how try to peck at my hands regardless of if there is food!)

Ellys eyes have healed up nicely :)

Here she is showing them off...

Here is Bandit being, well... Bandit

This is what happens when Bandit and Elly play. She was chasing him around the yard (she was running her heart out and he was trotting hehehe.) I think she bit her tongue (hence the blood on her tongue.) It wasn't from him ;)

Bandit trying to look mean. EPIC Fail!

Finally, here is what we found when we went to fix the doona for bed...

New chicks

We got our 2 new chickens after the passing of Satay...

So introducing Drumstick (black with the red neck) and Schnitzel (the red one)!

They seem to be fitting in well and all the girls were huddled together this morning (it was pretty chilly!!!)

Schnitzel in particular is very soft, almost like fluid.

I tried to pick them up this afternoon, but they wouldn't let me. Hopefully when there are two of us in the coop we might have more luck!

Basil vs Ratty the toy

At IKEA today I got the cats a bundle of little toys and finger puppets.

James theory is that we need to train the cats to kill mice seeing as they were so lousy at it when he tried to get them to do it. 

Apparently Basil is our only hope ;)

Lexi vs Plastic sleeve!

Our cats aren't that particularly plastic bag obsessed, but then given you have to pay for plastic bags here in the ACT, we don't really leave them lying around, they go in a cupboard to be reused. We mainly use the enviro bags.

What our cats DO love though, is plastic sleeves! Strange I know. But then they are all quite special.

 Tonight was Lexi's turn... I had a sleeve sitting on the bed and she dived into it, literally. We often refer to her as Maru (if you haven't seen the Maru videos, you have to look them up on youtube!) as she does running dives into boxes. The other day she got the Soda Stream box stuck on her head ;)

 So I got the camera ready and waited to see if she would give the plastic sleeve some love again. I didn't have to wait long...

 

 Note: no cats or plastic sleeves were harmed in the making of this film.

Cat Burglar

So apparently we have a pick pocket in our midst!



He continues... yummy money!!!


Apparently Daddy's money isn't any good!

Patticake with Demonic Sporn Cat

A novel in pictures...

Hello lovely kitty, how do you do? My name is Oscar and I'm a lovely cat...

Aww... patticake patticake bakers men... I like playing with you kitty!

I von to suck your blooooood!

Sorry kitty, what did you say???

BLooooooooooooooood!!!!

The End.