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Obligatory Kitten Update
Dec. 29th, 2011 08:42 pmApparently I have been remiss in keeping the divine Miss Moxie's horde of fans and followers up-to-date on her status, and for that I apologize.
So, how is the little lady doing? All in all, not too badly....
She's still little, for one thing. She's about 6 months old now, and when I last took her in to work a few weeks ago, she still weighed in at a whopping 2lb 6oz.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
umbran has started looking into what it would take to get her officially declared the World's Smallest Cat; apparently the current holder of that title weighs 3lb 1oz.
She's sloooowly starting to learn. Somehow, in the past few weeks, she has finally started to figure out what the litterbox is for, as long as we keep her more or less in her own room. She gets to run around the living room in the evenings, since that seems to be her most playful time, and the arrangement seems to be working out so far.
And she loves to run. Her favorite pastime, in fact, seems to be running in circles (clockwise, almost always) around the living room at maximum speed, jumping into the air at random intervals. Luckily, she hasn't figured out that jumping is a tool that could get her over the foot-high barriers keeping her out of the rest of the house. She's also, just in the past few days, started actually playing with items in the environment - instead of just flailing her paws randomly in the air, she now flails them randomly in the general vicinity of toys and (much to my other cat's chagrin) my other cat, occasionally even making contact. Alas, this new developmental stage seems to have come with the additional new interest of chewing on electrical cords; luckily her jaws and midget teeth aren't powerful enough to actually chew through anything.
Grooming is still a bit of a challenge. She's figured out how to groom her paws, at least a little, but she hasn't figured out what to do about her face, and she still eats by just face-planting into a bowl of canned food, and then dragging it around the room. So she still needs to be bathed at least once a week; luckily, she's still too small to put up much of a fight.
So. Still tiny, still not the brightest bulb in the marquis, still a darn good thing she's cute... but I still love her. I think she's just going to be a permanent kitten, and I can live with that.
( What, you want pictures? Oh, all right.... )
So, how is the little lady doing? All in all, not too badly....
She's still little, for one thing. She's about 6 months old now, and when I last took her in to work a few weeks ago, she still weighed in at a whopping 2lb 6oz.
umbran has started looking into what it would take to get her officially declared the World's Smallest Cat; apparently the current holder of that title weighs 3lb 1oz. She's sloooowly starting to learn. Somehow, in the past few weeks, she has finally started to figure out what the litterbox is for, as long as we keep her more or less in her own room. She gets to run around the living room in the evenings, since that seems to be her most playful time, and the arrangement seems to be working out so far.
And she loves to run. Her favorite pastime, in fact, seems to be running in circles (clockwise, almost always) around the living room at maximum speed, jumping into the air at random intervals. Luckily, she hasn't figured out that jumping is a tool that could get her over the foot-high barriers keeping her out of the rest of the house. She's also, just in the past few days, started actually playing with items in the environment - instead of just flailing her paws randomly in the air, she now flails them randomly in the general vicinity of toys and (much to my other cat's chagrin) my other cat, occasionally even making contact. Alas, this new developmental stage seems to have come with the additional new interest of chewing on electrical cords; luckily her jaws and midget teeth aren't powerful enough to actually chew through anything.
Grooming is still a bit of a challenge. She's figured out how to groom her paws, at least a little, but she hasn't figured out what to do about her face, and she still eats by just face-planting into a bowl of canned food, and then dragging it around the room. So she still needs to be bathed at least once a week; luckily, she's still too small to put up much of a fight.
So. Still tiny, still not the brightest bulb in the marquis, still a darn good thing she's cute... but I still love her. I think she's just going to be a permanent kitten, and I can live with that.
( What, you want pictures? Oh, all right.... )
