Kittens!

[Chancellor]

That's what I was going to ask -- did you survive the trimming?

That said - some cats are just chill about it, I'm hoping yours are so that part of life with them is easy

My big boy likes to get naps in my lap, which means I flop him upside down in my arms and hold him like a baby. When he settles, I can trim all his claws without trouble. I hope yours are like that!

My old Siamese Lexicon was like that. The two I have now....NOPE! I have a woman who comes in to trim my cats claws. I have to double hand scruff them while she trims their nails. I tried having my husband do it. But he was so slow in trimming the claws that my hands got too tired to hold them.

[SnowHorse]

Chancellor - I have an old tabby (15) that would probably straight up kill me if I tried even touching her claws, never mind trimming them. She's always been very particular about her own bodily integrity, and you will ***NOT*** breach it, LOL!

Then I have a 10 yr old little black kitty who probably wouldn't let me clip her claws, either, but I don't really need to clip hers. However, the other day she had a piece of grass stuck in her butt after eating some, and it had traveled through the digestive system. On the way out it got stuck, and she was trying to rub it on the floor to get it loose. So I had to get my husband to help; I was holding the cat - and she was screaming bloody murder while my husband tried to ease out the grass with a chunk of poop. All the other cats came to see why we were torturing her, as did the dogs, and they were very concerned for her

We got it fixed and all was well again.

[Moutaineer]

They were actually reasonably OK to do! Bribery works pretty well...

They are growing like weeds! Puck in particular. He has overtaken his older sister in weight and has turned into a bit of a thug. I have to call the vets office on Monday and arrange his brain surgery. I feel its time...

As they are rarely still they are quite hard to photograph.

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[Moutaineer]

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[Anne]

So beautiful! They have grown heaps haven't they!

[Chisamba]

They are so elegant looking

[Moutaineer]

The claws were a bit more of a challenge this morning... Puck is a bit of a wriggler. However, treats and distraction got it done in the end.

[Chancellor]

Lilac and chocolate point?

[Moutaineer]

Puck is a blue point, like his dad and Phoebe is a seal point like her mother. Shes starting to darken up a bit already.

[SnowHorse]

They're so adorable!

Do they talk a lot?

[Moutaineer]

They are quite chatty if they want something or have lost one another in the house!

[Chisamba]

They are quite chatty if they want something or have lost one another in the house!

When I was growing up we had a siamese named Natasha. She was the most vocal cat I ever met. Is it a siamese trait?

[Moutaineer]

They are quite chatty if they want something or have lost one another in the house!

When I was growing up we had a siamese named Natasha. She was the most vocal cat I ever met. Is it a siamese trait?

Very much so!

[SnowHorse]

Chisamba - yes, they're very vocal!

If you have some spare time, go to youtube and search "talkative siamese cat" and enjoy!

There's an old video that I've seen before where the owner of the cats is in shower and the cats are SCREAMING... it's funny
Our Meezers did that the first couple of times when I went to shower when they were little, but then they figured out it was OK. Now they just wait for me to come out of the "water box"

[Chancellor]

Georgia will play Marco Polo with Jackson (sometimes at night). She is very demanding with him.

For those unfamiliar with Marco Polo, its a kids game where one person shouts Marco and the rest have to reply Polo.

[Snork]

Siamese have such distinct little faces. I love seeing your pictures and I am also quite curious how the nail trimming went. Do you still have most of your fingers?

[Moutaineer]

I'm trying to make the nail trimming a weekly occurrence, so it becomes routine and no big deal. Which means i need to get to it in the next couple of days. Treats help Phoebe doesn't mind much, but Puck apparently thinks I'm chopping his feet off.

Puck goes in for neutering next week. He's getting a bit pushy... We will hold off a while on spaying Phoebe as she is still so tiny.

I get to be the fun police. Nail trimming, trips to the vet, "stop doing that" patrol, etc., while DH is the adored feeder and oblivious to bad behavior.

[PaulaO]

Ursala Kitteh is my house panther and is very vocal. I think she is part Meezer. And I cannot look at her paws, let alone touch them. But apparently she is good as gold for nail trims at the vet.

Stuff coming out of cats’ butts will never not be funny. Ursala gets the occasional “crumble”. Not a true dingleberry just a tiny piece.

[Moutaineer]

So someone here is learning the hard way not to leave temptation in their path...

DH hearing aid: 0
Kittens: 1

[heddylamar]

So someone here is learning the hard way not to leave temptation in their path...

DH hearing aid: 0
Kittens: 1

Our wedding is infamous for a kitten v. hearing aid incident

[Moutaineer]

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Growing fast... a brief moment of peace!

[PaulaO]

OMG. I love how they are cuddled.

[Chisamba]

That picture is priceless

[Moutaineer]

They look so cute and peaceful, don't they?

They are hellions.

[SnowHorse]

They look so cute and peaceful, don't they?

They are hellions.

That's the best kind!



They have that curly tail going on, too

I call Mocha my curly-tailed-possum because her tail is always curled up... but... hers does an arch from the base, and then the tip curls up again. Like a big sideways "S", but the part closest to the base of tail is really big.

[Kyras_Mom]

I bet that was indeed a (short) moment of peace.

I lost my last cat Oscar earlier in the month. I decided I wasn’t ready for the dog due to logistical challenges and winter coming and I already had all the cat stuff so about 10 days ago I adopted a lynx point Siamese…I not sure why they call them Siamese as they are a cross but she needed a soft place to land and with my Mom, was pretty sure I didn’t want to deal with kitten (s?) energy…you can’t get just one.

Her name is Angel. She is 7 years old so well past the kitten stage. Her previous owner had passed away. She spent about a month in a foster home then went to the rescue where she spent most of the time holed up in a cat tree cubby because she didn’t get along with the other cats in her room. She has blue eyes and nystagmus! I freaked out at first as a I really never saw her out of the cubby but apparently it can be common in Siamese. She also has a short fat tail with a kink in it. We got off to a bit of a rocky start as she bit my 92yo mom twice on day 4. She didn’t bite hard but when you have 92 yo fragile skin . She apparently quickly staked out Mom’s bed as her territory and we fixed that. She now sleeps in her own room and she is opening up more and more and we have had no more biting incidents.

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Siamese are pretty cool cats.

Susan

[PaulaO]

If I ever got a purebred, I would like a Tonkinese or a Ragdoll. I fear a Meezer would talk too much!

[Moutaineer]

She is very pretty, Susan!

[Kyras_Mom]

Thanks Moutaineer. She needed a soft place to land. Boy she was in whirlwind mode this morning. A good play session took care of that…she is older so no endless kitten energy. We are peeling back the layers as she gets more comfortable.

I can imagine what fun you are having. Kittens are so entertaining and other things….

Susan

[Kyras_Mom]

*duplicate*

[Chancellor]

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[khall]

Kittens are better than TV!

Susan how lovely you gave this pretty girl a soft spot to land! Bless you. I’ve had cats for years but mine tend to be outside barn cats. I’m partial to orange tabbies. They stay in the tack room at night and get to hunt and visit during the day. My current orange boy I picked up on the road just down from my farm. Unaltered and was going to get hit crossing busy highway. I got out of the truck to see if he was friendly and at first he thought about running but then quickly came to me friendly and fine to be picked up.

[Moutaineer]

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This little girl is now 8 months old! She's going in to be spayed on Thursday, which makes me a bit anxious. But it does need to be done.

Keeping her quiet when she comes back is going to be a trick. "Kittens" and "quiet" don't seem to belong in the same sentence with these two

She does love a heating vent!

[SnowHorse]

I hope baby girl behaved after the spay! She's so pretty


I don't know if you're into sports and basketball, but... Jazz is being awesome, and I've been watching their games because of Lauri Markkanen. Love the rest of the team as well, great bunch of players

[Koolkat]

Mountaineer - Your cats are beautiful. So are those curtains! Do you mind my asking the source?

[Moutaineer]

Phoebe has bounced back beautifully from her surgery, I'm happy to say. It was tricky keeping the two hooligans separated for that long, but now she is healed they are back at it...

The Jazz, I keep half an eye on them, and the Utes, so I can make intelligent grunting noises with clients...

The curtains, I made myself. I bought the fabric online. Probably Onlinefabricwarehouse.com or fabricguru.com. I can't remember! I'll post a picture of the whole wall for you.

[Moutaineer]

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[Koolkat]

Wow, well done! ^^^^^ The pleating looks perfect. And that close up of the material is really beautiful coloring.

Being in the midst of a drapery project (who knew how complicated they could get?), this is encouraging.

[Moutaineer]

The right heading tape is the key to all things curtain. I can bang them out pretty quickly nowadays!

[Moutaineer]

You know that thing when you grab a load of laundry out of the dryer and dump it on the kitchen table while you sort out the next load?

So do they...

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[heddylamar]

You know you did that just for them

[Chancellor]

Siameses do enjoy being very warm. The box on my side desk has a body activated warming blanket for them. One would think they would spontaneously combust given that when they cuddle together they put off a ton of heat.

[SnowHorse]

Haha, yeah, the laundry

We actually don't have a dryer, so warm laundry happens only in summer (coming in from the clothesline on the porch). That said, pretty much anytime I start folding laundry I dump it on the bed (I need a lot of room for it), and Mr Cocoa shows up to "help". It means, essentially, that he tries to grab any item I'm trying to fold, which makes the progress slow.

Aaanyway, so I grab some stuff and cover him in it so I get a few moments of folding time before he intervenes again. He's so lovable... and helpful

[Moutaineer]

I would say that the household is pretty comfortably integrated now!

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[Chisamba]

They look completely comfortable

[Moutaineer]

They are in my seat...

[demi]

So enjoying the meezer kittens (and the older one, too)