For the love of cats
On Tueday July 14 we bought home two 10 week old kittens. Having cats has been one of those things I have always wanted to do – well as an adult at least. We had a family cat growing up for a while, and my brothers cat, Puddha, now lives at home with my parents. He’s got to be the fattest cat you’ve ever seen. But this blog is not about him.
Enter Merlin (the tabby) and Venus (the grey). Yes totally appropos names for kittens growing up in home where an astrologer and tarotist live. As they were so little when we got them, they’ve gone missing, hid under couches and behind washing machines. We ‘lost’ them one afternoon – for over three hours!! – when they hid inside one of the kids beds. But at their most recent vet visit (who knew how expensive kittens were in the first year of their life?!?!) they’ve almost doubled in size – from the tiny 770grams Venus was to her hefty (by comparison) 1.2 kilos and Merlin, growing from 990grams to 1.5kilos.Now they’re big enough to jump on things higher than a foot stool. Which we discovered last night included our almost waist high king size bed. (Another dream fulfilled!)
It could be said when you get a dog you get a pet, but when you get cats you become a slave. And that’s how we felt last night, with the kittens revelling in their new found strength, jumping up onto the bed, wrestling together, then progressively jumping off the bed, landing with a thud. To only do it all over again. To stay that kittens are playful is an understatement. They DO NOT STOP MOVING. Never having had toddlers, I’m beginning to understand the constant watchfulness required. (I know that kittens don’t comapre to toddlers in many, many other ways.)
This was fun (for us) for a while, but waking up with two kittens bitting your feet or dive bombing your knees is not what I had in mind when I imagined two purring cats sleeing peacfully at the end of the bed, warming our toes through cold winter nights. (Yes it’s officially summer here at the moment, but in Canada there are only two seasons, or so I heard on the radio the other day – Winter and July.)
And so under this potent New Moon in Leo energy, we got to see the regal, ‘I’m in charge’ side to our new additions.
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