Basil is all settled in!

Basil is all settled in and spends his time either chasing one of the big boys and tackling them, lion style, or snuggled up sleeping with Lexi. I won't natter on too long, as there are lots of pics and videos to see!

This is the new little family, Bert Lexi and Basil. Though normally Oscar mothers him and I suspect that Oscar and Lexi have a thing going...

Meanwhile, Syd thought it was all too much.

Later on, Lexi n Basil were taking a nap together...

Then just hanging out...

As Bert watched on...

Then Lexi had another snooze...

Basil joined her, again

Oscar found it all very tiresome...

Bert and Oscar were having a bath and Basil joined in!


Bandit and Basil spent some time hanging out together.


After that poor Bandit had his tail attacked and wasn't sure what to do LOL!

Stitching up Elly and Welcome Basil!

It's been a while...

Elly cut her paw open 2 weeks ago. It resulted in surgery. The following week the vet checked her paw and she'd busted open all her stitches. We then tried taping it closed and when it was checked on tuesday, it appears that it starting to heal, yay! So she will have to put up with being kept in the carport (to stop her and Bandit playing chasings in the backyard!) I can't even let her in the house, because she runs around following the cats!

Last Saturday we picked up our new addition, Basil!! He is a brown spotted Bengal.

Didn't take long for him to settle in

The afternoon, we picked him up, he had a nap with Dad

Since then, he's been making himself comfy,

Sometimes making himself scarce

He sleeps in our bed at night, by choice ;) The ginger boys accepted him within a day and they regularly are chasing each other, with the odd swipe to keep him in his place. Syd hasn't really minded at all. Lexi on the other hand, is being a diva. We spent 2 days having growing and hissing, when he was in the same room as her. We are now down to hissing when he's close. She will give him a swipe, but not with full force.



Here is Lexi's feelings on the matter!


Will update again soon, I promise! :)

So this is Christmas...

It was Christmas in the Hairy Harris household today!

Here is a selection of pictures and videos of the dogs and cats getting their gifts!

Lexi checking out the presents

Oscar checking out part of the kitties gift!

Oscar playing with the scrunchy foil cat toy

Lexi playing with the foil scrunchy toy

Hiding under the tree!

Helping himself to his gift!

Videos :)

Christmas

On Saturday I put the Christmas tree up. I wasn't doing to put it up, because I figured with 4 cats the chances of the tree being upright and still having decoration on it was zilch. However the lack of Christmas spirit drove me to put it up!

So James helped me get all the decorations down from storage and I pulled them all into the house after James helped me reorganise the loungeroom! So then I began to unpack the Christmas tree branches. It went something like this...

*pulls out 1 branch*
*pulls cat out of tree box and shoos other cat away that was chewing on branch*
*pulls out another branch*
*pulls 2 cats out of tree box and shoos other 2 cats away that were chewing on branches*
*pulls out another branch*
*pulls 3 cats out of tree box and shoos other cat away that was chewing on branches*
*pulls out another branch*
*pulls cat out of tree box and shoos other 3 cats away that were chewing on branches*

Repeat until Taneile is insane!!@#$!@#$!@

Then I got out the decorations... let's do this one pictorially...

Then I tested the train for around the tree


Surprisingly the tree is still standing and all the decorations are still on it!!

Catch up...

It's been a long time since I updated the blog, as I've been a bit slack.

So here is what you missed...

Bandit chewed the air ring at the top of the pool. It's come off twice since, but luckily, he had nothing to do with it on those occasions!

Also, Bandit has decided visitors are evil. But apparently only if they come in through the carport. He will bark at them and then run away. Then come back and bark again and run away. I don't think he gets how to do "big scary Rottweiler." The running away bit kinda takes away from the "scary dog" bit ;) If they walk out from the house then he is happy to sit on their feet and lean on them, as he does to those of us he likes.

My rose garden has been in bloom, so I've been bringing roses inside to enjoy. Lexi appreciates that I do that and shows me how much by EATING MY ROSES! Lucky she is gorgeous and snuggly and adorable, otherwise she'd be slippers by now.

Evidence...

What??? I am INNOCENT!

Oh and we are getting chickens! They won't be coming until they are 12 weeks, so they won't join us until March.

More cat and dog love videos

Well Bandit and Bert give me lots of footage ;)

I was looking tonight at videos I took when Lexi was little and how little she was and also of Syd when he was little tacker! I should post some of them on the blog. I can't believe Lexi is a year old already and how big she is now!

Now... puppy love...

I've been REALLY slack...

But in fairness I've been dealing with stupid health issues.

So, it was Lexi's birthday yesterday, she turned the big 1! ;) My baby is growing up!

Here is a video of Bandit having his nightly beauty routine. You can also see the birthday girl and her new toy (the round one with the ball in it and fluffy mouse on top.) She loves it and will drag it under our bed and spend AGES flicking the ball around.



I'll catch up on some recent pics and video in the next week or so!

They are planning a take over...

Unhappy about the state of food, lack of tuna and hot cooked meals 3 times a day, they are planning a take over and I have photographic proof!

Just after the meeting in my tshirt drawer was called to order...

Bert was in on it too, he just didn't want to have the evidence against him...

Oh Bertie, what have they done to you! You were my ally! You snuggle up to me and keep me warm at night and now you've turned on me too.

Now I know to sleep with one eye open and watch the evil posse.

Busted!

While she acts like a cranky old diva, the Lecki-puss really does love her feline brother.

Caught in the act TWICE yesterday...

Photographic evidence... kissing Oscar

Video evidence... grooming Bert!

New beds!

Today the kitties new beds arrived.

Lexi seems to LOVE her new bed. She isn't keen on sharing though! Syd tried to get in with her, and she kicked him out, literally. In fairness, he only got in to annoy her, he was trying to bite her on the neck.

Syd seems to like the grey one, and I think I will keep the blue one for the new addition, because Syd doesn't seem to like it (I tried putting him in it, and he kept getting out.)

Here are our new beds...