And Then There Were Three (by sarah)

Hydrogen and Helium have been joined by a third cat! This ones called Mini and is all black with large pale green/yellow eyes. We picked her up on Sunday evening after a hectic weekend. She was very good on the journey home, only mewing when I made the squeaky noise I make. She even let me stroke her, purring when we stopped at the services so the we could give her some water.

She has so far spent most of her time behind the fridge and freezer, grrrring at kittens who tend to ignore her, after some initial hissing.

Shes seven years old and has been a bit lonely and stuck inside recently but hopefully she will soon settle down.

She had been out rather a lot today and let me comb her with the cat comb that came free of charge with her! 🙂

Hmmm might have to add even more subcategpries!

p.s. she mults lots 🙁 hoovering here we come!

Comedy Moment (by sarah)

Well the kittens have been getting into everything and we have been trying to 'train' them out of sitting on beds and tables to little success. Today I saw Hydrogen climb into my wooden potpori bowl (dads cousin John made the bowl in Wales!). I jumped up saying, 'No bad kitten'. Al simpered over how cute it looked - I moved around the furniture to remove it firmly but gently from the bowl. Kitten mewed I said, 'OH no' as the realisation dawned on me that I had found the elusive cat turd that had been smelling - with my bear feet and lo! It was flipping moldy!

Al rushed to get a bowl for me to wash my feet in with out smearing it everywhere - unfortunatly it happed to be the bowl which leaks!

NetBSD/cute: kitten(4) (by alaric)

Well, the latest snapshot of NetBSD/cute now supports the kitten(4) driver.

I tried to get a screenshot of kitten running with my two black and white devices, but while I was preparing it, I ran into a resource conflict with the existing baby(4) driver:

I managed to jury-rig a bus isolation mechanism, however:

Of Cats and Kittens (by sarah)

We have been carrying one kitten with us when we go and feed Babaras cats to try and get everybody used to the new situation. However last night Tim followed me into the Bakery, so I went and got a kitten to see how he would react to them - it was H the less agressive of the two. To mine and Als suprise TIm stood there looking a bit worried and as soon as I put H on the ground, the kitten started hissing and yoewling, back arched, fur raised.

We thought that it would be predent if H won the face off as it is the kittens territory, but we didnt have to intervine - Tim was petrafied of the kitten and as soon as we opened the door he was off like a shot.

Then Betsy, the black shy cat kept coming over and sticking her paw through our letter box - rattling it toget our attention. She kept doing this until we let her into the Mill via the door - she has arthritise and we think she was having problems climbing in the window to get her food.

Tim and Batsy also appeared to be missing Barabara - who they seemed to think we were hiding in the Bakery - this myth was dispelled earlier with heer return from holiday - the endless watering is now at an end 🙂

The kittens house training has dramatically improoved with a) a box over the litter tray to make it resemble the covered one they were used to. b) treats and rewards, plus being taken to the litter tray. c) Cleaning the litter tray out three times a day and d) feeding them specific cat milk so they dont have the squitz anymore!

Photos added (by sarah)

We have now put the photos up in the posts Kittens, Toad, and Shrew.

They are cute - go look!