August Washing Basket Video

Snow and Ice both love my washing baskets and when ever I try to take washing anywhere Snow will jump it it even with clothes in it.

After a few failed videos I caught this, you can't really tell but I am holding the basket up as if I was going to get my washing and he just jumps in!!!

August Blanket Video

So Snow decides that he doesn't like the blanket that we have on top of their cat tower and I managed to catch him on video pulling it down.

Apologies for the quality I have to quickly grab my phone while he is doing these things and the quality is rubbish.

August

August has seen Snow become attention seeking and quite naughty.

It has been a bit of trial and error in trying to deter this and we are still not quite there so if anyone has any ideas please let me know.

When we are in the living room he likes to attack the television which we would rather he didn't as he is bound to break it. Telling him off was not working and I found that when I stood up to take him off he would go all flat and floppy so I couldn't pick him up which is funny but at the time not so much.

Now we are trying the removal technique (using children methods now!!!) and if he does it more than once I will pick him up put him in the hallway and shut him out for a few minutes.

But this no longer is working and as soon as the door is open he is straight back on the tele. After putting him out twice maybe three times he does stop.

On a good note I managed to catch on film a few things that Snow has been doing recently. I will put these up as separate posts as it is easier.

July

In July the weather got very hot. Our Bengals are house cats so it is hard to keep it cool in the house without having windows and doors open. To combat this in the evening we shut them out of the living room for a little while and opened all the windows and the patio doors. Then shut them in the living room and opened the rest of the house for a bit. This really worked.

To try and help them get through the hot weather we thought we would try them in the bath. Bengals are known to be keen on water but we had never tried.

Initially we opened the bathroom and let the tap run which they were intrigued. Then it moved on to paddling!!

Also I gave them some ice in a bowl. Snow didn't really get it he kept trying to tip the bowl over like he does with the water bowl (we have had to get a dog bowl so its too heavy!!) but Ice got the idea I think.

Also we did a little DIY well my husband did. The cat tree podiums were too small for them now so he changed the top to another platform for them to sleep on which they do.

June

June was a funny month as they found lots of new things they can do.

Sleeping in weird positions

Getting in the way whilst making our portable BBQ - it was just the right size for his bum!!

And Ice discovered how to get on top of the door!! it is very clever, he had worked out how to shut the door which is funny when Snow is in the hall he looks like a naughty kid shut out. Then he worked out how to shut the door enough so that he could get on top of the door frame from the mantlepiece.

May

May saw more sleeping on their bed.

They also discovered climbing humans!!!

April's Favourite Pastime

The cats decided they like to investigate everything and every time I got out a bag of some sort they had to get in it!!

April

April saw them becoming more mischievous!!! anything they could find they would play with or get on.

Ice discovered he can get up onto the mantlepiece so everything had to come down from there.

Snow decided to start climbing on my lamp which was expensive so I had to take that away.

Also during April we bought a bed and mattress and the mattress was in the hallway for a little while and they both decided it was a great place to sleep.

They also got a cat bed which they liked very much!!

March's Favourite Pastime

So March saw a few new favourite things.

They decided that the paper packing out of parcels was fun - this is so noisy I have now stopped giving it to them as I cannot hear the tele or myself think!

Also they had a few new balls, they found our box of kindling with various little bits of wood from the house build - all safe but Ice likes to trot around with little bits of wood in his mouth!!

Then they also decided they liked my laundry basket - its just a cheap one from Argos so happy for them to have it.

Ice's favourite thing was to hide things in it. Any toy or bit of wood he found would end up in there like he was stashing it for a rainy day. If ever we couldn't find toys they were in there!!!

I have a video but it is rubbish quality so I apologise.

March Antics

March saw much of the same settling in and making themselves at home.

This one makes me laugh every time. Cat Selfie!!!

February's Favourite Pastime

These cats are very inquisitive and find new things to play with all the time.

Even though we had only just got them February was full of running around, toys and places to explore.

The main favourites were a metal egg cup from a cracker!! and also hiding in the sofa that had a small tear in the bottom which became apparent that it was just the right size for kittens!!

Here is photo and a video of them both in this nice hidey hole.

February's new arrivals

So we got our new additions back in February.

It's quite nice going back through the photos, I forgot how small they were.

They came with the names Ice and Dancer, Ice seemed to fit as you can see his markings were less prominent but we weren't too sure about Dancer so have re-named as Snow (very original but we couldn't really think of anything else).

And they seemed to settle in very quickly. Think it helped having both of them as one was more confident than the other.

It was like they had always been there!!