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Pepper cried last night, and FO got her to follow her back to bed. I think she was lying half on me, half on FO. And Caramel was lying on my other half.

Then Pepper goes crazy licking herself. I couldn't see it, but I guess she was licking the same spot over and over. With great gusto. Loudly and wetly.

FO kept telling Pepper to stop and eventually Caramel thought she was playing or something and was trying to play back.

Caramel did a lot of things tonight. She was stalking Pepper, and then completely jumped on her. All 4 paws, her body completely covering Pepper's. Then they started fighting (not a surprising consequence) and I broke it up. FO laughed at it. Maybe it wasn't as serious as it looked. I guess Caramel was just (again) trying to get her to play.

Then Caramel got on the floor near Pepper, and did that thing she does where she rolled over on her back and undulated. I had an epiphany about why she does that. I think she's purposefully making herself vulnerable in an effort to encourage Pepper to jump on her. I wonder if Caramel thinks it's her job to teach Pepper how to play. Pepper is probably an older cat, but Caramel might think she's younger, since she just "appeared" after Caramel had already lived here a while. Well, even if she doesn't think Pepper is younger, it is obvious that she doesn't play much.

I tried rolling and undulating on the floor on my back in front of Caramel to see what she'd do. She looked at me as though she couldn't figure out what I was doing. So, what does she think Pepper thinks?

Caramel also briefly got in her house in the tower. It's the first time I saw her do that in weeks. I think she might like that it has a little ledge outside it, so she can be partway in and still rest her head and shoulders outside. None of the other cat furniture interiors (the castles, or the upstairs tower) let her do that.

Another thing about Caramel is that she by now knows what the second laser pointer is. It has a little key chain, so as soon as she hears that rattle when we pick it up, even before we push the button, she starts getting ready to stalk it.

I think Pepper likes playing with the turbo scatcher chaser more than Caramel does.

I was just on the phone with my brother, and he said we should be frequently brushing our cat's teeth. So, uh, any tips for that?

I rotated the big tower 90 degrees last night. I noticed that Caramel likes the medium tower the most now, and I think it might be because it's closer to us, and because it's eye-level with us when we're at the computer or sitting down. The way her tower was before, the little house looked up the stairs, which might have been kind of pointless. Now it faces out into the room.

I don't know if that had anything to do with it, but when Caramel saw the rotated tower, she got excited, explored all around it, and took a nap in the second highest level for a while. The 2nd highest level is the biggest "disc" in any of the towers, overall I think, and it also doesn't have a little hole in the bottom.

It's possible that the reason she got so excited, though, was just because, by rotating it, the tower looked "new" to her.

She wasn't able to crash land out of the tower onto the castle, though. Maybe I'll need to move the castle closer. She climbed down a few levels, then crash landed on the computer chair ... where Pepper was sleeping! But Caramel did that only to get down, and not to harass little Pepper. After she crash landed, she jumped back down to the floor, leaving Pepper looking really confused as to what the hell just went on.

FO converted another little part of the apartment to a cat spot. She got a plastic kitty tower with hammock-like walls and floors (this) and put it by the big window. Caramel can get to the top, of course, but I'm not sure what it'll do for Pepper. We put the spare castle by the window, so she could sit there and look out the window if she wanted. I'm not sure if that'll be the long term solution. I might get something else for there for her.