So these kids I brought home are really a handfull. They seem to think that the whole house (that they’ve been alowed to explore, so far) belongs to them, which I should know, from experience with the long list of cats I’ve known. I think I’ve grown complacent on how my current cat, C.T. Shino, sticks to the lowlands. The highest he’s ever gone is the bed, and when I got a taller bed, he wasn’t quite sure about being more than 3′ off the ground. So now I’m going around trying to figure out where would be really bad for these kids to find. They seem to like the top of the back of my chair, the stack of laundry baskets at the foot of my bed and the headboard of my bed.


Shino the orange slinker hasn’t come out of his hidey hole of his own volition that I’ve seen since yesterday morning. I brought him out and tried to soothe him for a few minutes. He was ok as long as I was holding him on his back in my computer chair (the only position I’m allowed to hold him in) but he didn’t take kindly to being moved to the bed which was occupied by the kids, and retreated back to the safety of the corner.

Chance is totally mezmerized by the kids and can’t leave them alone.