I want to start a new one. The old one's getting too long now.
Hermes hasn't been feeling well from his vet ordeal today, and he's mostly been sleeping in the cat bed upstairs. Mel is getting more brave around him. She jumped up onto the boxes next to the cat bed to look out the window with him still there. However, she stayed on the edge of the boxes as far from him as possible. I think it's to his advantage that she doesn't get too friendly with him just yet, because I don't want her raising her paws to his eye while it's healing.
I'm hoping that once his eye is healed, it'll cure his "nippy" behavior, since I think that's the reason he doesn't want anything near his face.
Pepper's been pawing at my legs. I gave her dinner, she ate it, and proceeded to play with some toys. I read up online about cats that howl in the night like Pepper does (although sometimes she does it during the day, too), and one site said that mostly cats 11 years or older do that. We don't know Pepper's exact age, but I have a hard time believing she's that old when she plays. She does sleep a lot, though. One thing Pepper does that's annoying is that she rubs her head on the adjustment lever of the computer chair. Not only does it make a really irritating "crack" sound when she does that, but I'm afraid she's going to cause the chair to drop, so I've been trying to get her to stop that.
The large cat carrier we bought worked out a lot better than the smaller one would have for Hermes, but there were a few issues with it...
1. The top-loading idea didn't really work. I couldn't get him down into the opening. We had to put him in through the front as usual.
2. The damn thing kept coming halfway apart, and Crawl had to be really careful to only lift and carry it from the bottom. There are locks all along it, but some of them wouldn't stay shut. It looks to me like once the locks are shut, there's a place to put a pin, but the stupid thing didn't come with any pins. Maybe it was supposed to, but the pins weren't inside of ours for some reason. Crawl said he would get some ties for it.
3. Hermes pushed one of the top locks open with his head. If we ever had to go a long journey, we'd have to secure those a little better.
He cried all the way to and from the vet (just like Mel did), but not as loudly as he did when he was in the cardboard box on the way home from the shelter. I don't blame him for that. He probably couldn't turn around in that box, and it only had airholes, so he couldn't see out of it very well. It must've been like being entombed to him.
Mel has been acting more frisky. She's got that playful look in her eyes when her pupils dilate and fill up almost the entire eye, and she's running around in spurts. She hadn't really done that since we brought Hermes home.
I also think Mel is high on catnip because they chewed a hole in their catnip cigar and got catnip all over the upstairs bedroom's floor. She was walking along the floor, sniffing and purring at the same time (but her purrs sound like snorting, especially when she's sniffing at the same time), and after that was when she looked buzzed.
Hermes hasn't been feeling well from his vet ordeal today, and he's mostly been sleeping in the cat bed upstairs. Mel is getting more brave around him. She jumped up onto the boxes next to the cat bed to look out the window with him still there. However, she stayed on the edge of the boxes as far from him as possible. I think it's to his advantage that she doesn't get too friendly with him just yet, because I don't want her raising her paws to his eye while it's healing.
I'm hoping that once his eye is healed, it'll cure his "nippy" behavior, since I think that's the reason he doesn't want anything near his face.
Pepper's been pawing at my legs. I gave her dinner, she ate it, and proceeded to play with some toys. I read up online about cats that howl in the night like Pepper does (although sometimes she does it during the day, too), and one site said that mostly cats 11 years or older do that. We don't know Pepper's exact age, but I have a hard time believing she's that old when she plays. She does sleep a lot, though. One thing Pepper does that's annoying is that she rubs her head on the adjustment lever of the computer chair. Not only does it make a really irritating "crack" sound when she does that, but I'm afraid she's going to cause the chair to drop, so I've been trying to get her to stop that.
The large cat carrier we bought worked out a lot better than the smaller one would have for Hermes, but there were a few issues with it...
1. The top-loading idea didn't really work. I couldn't get him down into the opening. We had to put him in through the front as usual.
2. The damn thing kept coming halfway apart, and Crawl had to be really careful to only lift and carry it from the bottom. There are locks all along it, but some of them wouldn't stay shut. It looks to me like once the locks are shut, there's a place to put a pin, but the stupid thing didn't come with any pins. Maybe it was supposed to, but the pins weren't inside of ours for some reason. Crawl said he would get some ties for it.
3. Hermes pushed one of the top locks open with his head. If we ever had to go a long journey, we'd have to secure those a little better.
He cried all the way to and from the vet (just like Mel did), but not as loudly as he did when he was in the cardboard box on the way home from the shelter. I don't blame him for that. He probably couldn't turn around in that box, and it only had airholes, so he couldn't see out of it very well. It must've been like being entombed to him.
Mel has been acting more frisky. She's got that playful look in her eyes when her pupils dilate and fill up almost the entire eye, and she's running around in spurts. She hadn't really done that since we brought Hermes home.
I also think Mel is high on catnip because they chewed a hole in their catnip cigar and got catnip all over the upstairs bedroom's floor. She was walking along the floor, sniffing and purring at the same time (but her purrs sound like snorting, especially when she's sniffing at the same time), and after that was when she looked buzzed.
