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Teego is the king of the mousehunters!

Freya — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:35:30 +0000

Last week, we noticed Teego was very intently looking under the rocking chair….

This strange behaviour went on for *even* longer than usual, so Daddycat took a look under there to see what was so exciting……

…and was VERY surprised to see a pair of tiny little mousey eyes looking back at him!

(We have NO IDEA what the thing at the bottom left is, but it’s not what it looks like, whatever that is.)

We can only assume that Teego had brought Mr Mousie in from outside in the Catio and let him go, at which point he ran for his life under the chair!

We tried to coax him out, but he ran off to another corner, which fortunately was easier for him to be caught in a Chinese food container.

And here’s a gratuitous picture of Daddycat’s butt for no reason.

Eventually, Mr mousie was caught.

What sort of mouse do you think this is? Are they all that small, or do you think he’s a baby mousie?

Teego had long since lost interest in all the Human excitement going on, and gone to sleep. This made him fair game for teasing. He’s gonna be dissapointed when he sees what they did to him while he was asleep!!

Mr Mousie got a free lift to the wasteland opposite our house and was set free there, fortunately unharmed.

Welcome back to us!!

Freya — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:32:33 +0000

Dearest Furrends,

We are REALLY sorry we’ve been away for so long, and the reason is entirely DADDYCAT’s FAULT.

Maybe we should be a bit more gentle and respectful, but hey why bother? He loves us so much he’d never punish us whatever we did!

Anyway he’s entirely to blame, and just wanted a break from blogging for a short while, and then the break got longer and longer, and then finally, our dear friend Val commented and kicked Daddycat’s butt to get back to blogging for us!

So much has happened since our last post before Christmas. Nothing bad, so don’t be afraid!!

This was going to be our Christmas picture, but guess what… nothing happened!

Teego has FLUTD

Teego has finally been diagnosed with FLUTD, after quite a long and troublesome diagnosis, from the best vet in the world, Jesse!

Teego kept squatting and straining to go, and occasionally passing blood and initially we thought it was a blocked urinary tract, so that meant a visit to the emergency vet, who said he’s not blocked, as his bladder is empty.

So the next day, JesseVet tried to get a sample and couldn’t because his bladder was again emtpy! He suspected FLUTD, but it’s hard to diagnose conclusively, and the best way is to rule out everything else. So he did a blood test, and a crystals in the urine test too, and Teego passed both of those tests, so then JesseVet gave him a variety of treatments, (My memory is fuzzy about the exact order of these, so if it sounds wrong, blame me, not JesseVet) Including a steroid shot, Cystaid capsules, Some exerimental Vetergesic drops administered under the tongue (kind of morphine for cats?) and Teego started to improve.

JesseVet also thought that stress from Chatzi may be an issue, so he prescribed Zylkene (not zyklene as we kept calling it) to both Freya and Teego! We’re not certain that it had any effect, but we trust JesseVet, and we do as we’re told.

So now Freya and Teego are both off their medicines, and eating a new food that we buy from the Vet, that’s kind of unbranded cat biscuits, but more on that later.

Chatzi still terrorizes Freya, but we keep catching them snuggled up too, so maybe things are looking up!

He’s a great snuggler, so no-one can stay mad at him for long!

So, next time, I’ll tell you about Teego the Great Mouse Hunter of Orpington!!!

Teego passed his test at the vets today!

Freya — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:16:52 +0000

The day after Teego’s failed urine sample, Teego was booked to go to the vets first thing in the morning, ideally with a FULL bladder, to make it easy for the vet to steal some of his wee!
We were under strict instructions to try not to let him wee before his appointment.
That morning, Mommacat was in the kitchen, and out of the corner of her eye, noticed Teego getting into the litter tray! Now, it’s not like you can chase him out or anything, but fortunately, Teego has some funny toilet positions, and this time he chose a fairly upright one, and quick-thinking Mommacat grabbed a cup off the draining board and held it under him and caught every last drop!!!!

So fortunately for Mr Teego, he got away with not having to go to the vet again, and having someone steal his wee-wees!

This is a picture from the Vets – notice how Teego ISN’T there!!

And if you ever come to our house and we give you a cup of tea in that cup…. well, maybe you should take the hint?

And do you know what that nice JesseVet said as we were about to empty the cup and go?

“I’ll just take a syringe of Teego’s wee for myself, as well as the one to send away for testing”!!! I wonder why he wants some??? It’s either to do some of his own tests, or it’s to sell it on Ebay!!!

haw haw! We’re only joking – JesseVet is always so lovely to us!

Chicken liver raw food treat!

Freya — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:01:23 +0000

We had an unexpected treat a while ago! We have a friend who is a famous Chef – Chef Annie from Annie’s Supper Club. I guess she was cooking something chickeny, and although she didn’t offer to share any with us, she did come round with a tub of CHICKEN LIVERS!!!

I’m guessing that her guests didn’t get any lovley chicken livers, and just got the leftovers like the breast and leg! hah! They have no idea!

I think Daddycat must have been a little under the weather here, as he kept gagging while preparing our delicious treat!

Yummy Chicken Livers all for US!!! Notice how bright red they were – I guess that’s what you get when they’re so fresh?

Teego doesn’t seem very interested though in his delicious livers. Maybe he didn’t want to get his light coloured furs all messy and red or something…

So we were more than happy to help Mr Teego out, and eat his livers for him.

Honestly, we don’t understand humans, all they kept saying while we were scoffing was “bleurgh! That’s gross” and “yuck, how could they?”

They simply have no taste!

A new film, starring Teego!

Freya — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:06:57 +0000

Hi everyone! We posted a new film today, Starring me, Teego, and I get to go on an adventure! Of course, it was all about me, but Freya and Chatzi both managed to get into my film somehow!

I hope you enjoy it!

It was made for a film competition, and as usual Daddycat left it till the last minute, and made it the afternoon before the competition! There’ll probably be a sequel, so where else should I visit?

My film is a tribute to the music video by Superchunk – Crossed wires,

The Tail Positions of Bengal cats?

Freya — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:58:13 +0000

(Some of you will already have seen a draft of this article, as last Friday, I hit publish instead of draft! Clumsy paws!)

So…. It’s fairly common knowledge that with domestic cat body language, you can tell a lot from the position of the tail. If it’s straight upright or upright with a hook on the tip, it shows a happy and confident cat.

Well, I read something interesting about us Bengals the other day, and it got me thinking. (The Bengal cat is a cross breed between an Asian Leopard Cat, and a domestic cat.)

Apparently, a characteristic of a Bengal cat is that instead of holding their tail bolt upright like a domestic cat, their tail hangs low, as a link back from their wild cat ancestry!

Now, I hadn’t heard that before, so we took some pictures to see, and I think it might be true! I’d be very interested to hear about other opinions from our Bengal friends too! Do your tails hang low as well?

Chatzi has a low tail

My tail also hangs low like a wild cat!

My tail usually has this curve to it

Teego's tail is typically upright, and you can see my tail in the foreground too!

Of course, this isn’t a scientific study, and while we were photographing these pictures, sometimes, Chatzi’s tail did go straight up, although my tail never goes higher than in the last picture, and always has that curve to it!

Has anyone else heard about this apparent Bengal trait?

Eyeliner for cats!

Freya — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:19:04 +0000

Last week, our Bengal friends at Pet Meadow made a post about Bengal cats and their eyeliner.

It got us thinking about our eyeliner too.

Of course, I wear it with pride, and it looks great on me.

Chatzi, being a Modern, Metrosexual Mancat also wears it, and I have to say, it looks good on him too…

Teego doesn’t wear it, and instead goes for the “I’m feeling a little sad, Do you think you could possibly spare me a teeny 10 seconds of snuggles, pweeease??” kinda look.

So you lovingly pick him up, and he rips your skin from your bones trying to get away! Haha! he tricked you again!

The Catio is completely finished!!

Freya — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:53:24 +0000

Hooray! It’s finished!!!

to see part 1

to see part 2

to see part 3

The last thing to do was to make some catio furniture, of walkways and ramps and a rope tower, and to fit the CAT FLAP!

It’s quite a big job to put a cat flap in an 11 inch brick wall, but fortunately, we were lucky enough to have a friend, Trevorcat, who came over to fit it for us! Wasn’t that nice of him?

So here are the pictures!

First, he marked out where the hole needed to go

Then cut through from the outside - That's a noisy thing called an SDS drill.

The cut through from the inside... This was really dusty!

WE SEE DAYLIGHT!!!!

Time to reward Trevorcat for all his work by allowing him to fuss us a little.

Teego comes over to allow him a stroke too. He likes Teego a lot, because Teego can do the "Sad eyes" trick.

Some more scritches for Chatzi before.....

Get back to work, and we're FINISHED!!!!

Even Teego manages to fit his considerable floof through the catflap!

Chatzi explores the walkways fearlessley!

And finally, I come out to bravely explore. All of us figured out the catflap after a couple of trys.

Finished building the Catio

Freya — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:30:23 +0000

to see part 1

to see part 2

to see part 4

Chatzi is first to explore and seems happy and confident. And noisy.

Teego is next, but much more subdued. He's only been outside once in his life!

I hope Chatzi learns not to hook his claws into the wire mesh

Now the other two have checked that it's safe, Freya comes in to give the catio a once-over.

Apparently, someone called "Huffle Mawson" told Chatzi that it's ok and great fun to chew leaves in the garden.

This is a supposedly "artistic" photograph. We look gorgeous either way. Artistic or not.

The behaviour of the three cats is very different. Chatzi was straight in, and very confidently exploring everywhere.

Teego was quite nervous and with us sat down in there, was almost clingy, weaving in and out of our legs, although indoors, he’s the most aloof and least touchy of the three.

Freya walked in, fairly confidently, went to the far corner, and jumped straight up and climbed the mesh to the top, in two bounds! Chatzi copied her about 10 seconds later!

After this, about 10 minutes later, we noticed Freya doing a lot of pacing along the far two sections. I know this is a problem with Zoo Animals, but should we be concerned so soon? I’m inclined not to worry unless that’s all she does every time she goes out there.

Anyway, all that’s left now, is to knock a catflap in the wall so they can come and go as they please, as it’s a bit of a fuss ferrying them one by one from the house to the Catio!

Freya loves Chatzi!

Freya — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:54:06 +0000

Chatzi here,

BUSTED!!

Look! Freya was asleep, and I very quietly snuck up on her, and snuggled up without waking her up!

I went to sleep, and she got such a surprise when she woke up! She thought she’d been at the catnip, and made up with me or something!

As she was walking away, I nipped her back leg to make sure the remembered how much fun I was to have around!

My dear big Brother Teego looks after me very well. I often pick on him, but he play fights back, and never hisses or screams at me, (like big sister Freya does), and he licks me clean when I need a cuddle.