Mummycat Monday and Manic Mummy Monday! ;)

Well the kittens are now 10 weeks old and are busy playing most of the time they're not eating or sleeping, this is great as they let me play too! :) It's nice being the biggest and fastest as I win most of the games! ;) Though the kittens then start changing the rules of the game or changing the game entirely, to something like chase *MY* tail! Ah well I'm still faster and can jump higher than them, so they can't catch me! ;)

Other than playing with the kittens, I've been watching Mummy being very busy writing stuff for magazines and filling in forms too. You see my little son Elzar will be going off to Italy in June to live with a lovely family and a purrty sorrel girl called Olivia, who will be his number 1 wife! He'll be getting a few more wives when he's old enough to take care of them though! ;) I'm sure he'll keep then all very happy though, and he'll get plenty of cuddles from his new Mummy & Daddy as well as their son, just like he gets here from Mummy, Daddy and D'Boy! :)

Little Enta will be staying quite locally to us with a lovely family and their little pet rabbit! I'm sure she's going to love the bunny and I know she's going to love the family as she had a really good cuddle with her new Mummy when they visited and even fell asleep in her arms! :)

So I'm one very content Mummycat, now that I know my babies will have wonderful lives ahead of them - though I'm not sure about being a Grandmummycat by about this time next year! ;) After all I'm far too young and glamerous to be considered a Grandmummy... But I shall certainly enjoy playing with Setra's babies and seeing photos of Elzar's when they start arriving too! :) Now I just have to purr that Mummy gets through all this paperwork soon so I can talk to my friends more often...

Mummycat Monday...

Well today the kittens turn 6 weeks old and I have decided (with at least some help from Mummy) to give the kittens their "official names" at long last... I also have a BIG announcement to make! :)

Firstly there's the kittens names and exactly what they mean:

Boy is El Zehuti, Zehuti is one of the many names of the Egyptian god Thoth. He's a born mediator who is calm in any situation!

BG is Et Seti-Ra, from the Egyptian god of storms, Set, and his companion Ra the sun god. In addition to this SeTiRa is Hebrew for contradiction, coming from the same root as the word SeTeR, meaning hidden secret. So while both the gods little Setra is named for are depicted as male, together they become contradictory and form a female name that we like to think of as our “little bit of sunshine after the storm”. On top of this as many of you know Storm was an amazing ladycat who battled lymphoma not just once but twice! We were greatly touched by her story... Since our human family has been deeply effected in the past few years by cancer, Daddy loosing his father to it and Mummy's Mum battling it at present I thought we could do with some brightness to help keep things in purrspective! :)

LG is Enta Omri, named for a beautiful Egyptian love song meaning "You are my life" famously sung by the amazing Uum Kulthum, who at her peak could sing from the 2nd octive all the way to somewhere between the 7th and 8th octives! This seems most apt as little Enta would scream higher and louder than any kitten of mine to date, right from a few days old! ;) She is also the sweetest and most loving of little girly cats... :)

Now for the big news:
Setra will be staying with us here and coming out to shows with me and then going on to have kittens of her own when she is big enough and old enough to do so! :) Yes that's right my kitty friends, you will be able to watch Setra grow up in front of your eyes via my bloggy - now isn't that going to be fun!? :)

Mummycat Monday...

Today the kittens are 1 month old, just look at what they've been getting up to. Well more to the point, what BG's been getting up to since she discovered the joys of playing with one of the little toy balls that Tama-Chan and #1 sent over. In fact she's become a little obsessive about it and tends to take it everywhere with her...

As you might notice LG has been working on her modelling career, as she poses so nicely now for every photo. Where as Boy is just happy to cuddle and hug everyone... :)

So as you can see they are all coming along nicely and now that they are walking better and starting to run it's lots of fun, though they still have to learn how to apply the breaks! ;)

Lastly it seems my dear little daughters have both developed a crush on Little "Red", so I have to listen to them talking about him all the time... I don't know how Boy copes with them doing this, at least I have my brother Ramses to talk to when I want some adult cat conversation! Ok, I can listen to Ramses talking about Mummy and chicken! ;)

Mummycat Monday...

Happy 1st Birthday Dandy, Delta-Peach, Django and Dizzy

Wow, can you believe that my first babies are now all cats?! It's amazing to see how much they have grown over the year and wonderful to see how well they are looking (above Dandy and Delta-Peach age 1 yr).

While here my latest kittens are turning 3 weeks old and are starting to get a hang of this walking thing! ;) Honestly it's quite amusing to watch them and I've seen Mummy, Daddy and D'Boy giggling quite a bit when one of the kittens does something funny too - though being their mother I have to do my best not to laugh at their efforts - at least while they can see and hear me! ;) So as you can imagine I occasionally have to make a quick exit from the room in order to keep myself from doing so. In fact Ramses finds he has to do the same, so we've made a bit of a game out of it! :) Above you can see BG doing her best to get into a good position for pouncing the camera, where as little LG is a star model and just sits there happily while having her photo taken! Where as Boy keeps trying to walk off every time Mummy tries to take a photo of him, even when asked nicely to stay still or sit. However he's always first in line when cuddles are being handed out and has never been known to be late for dinner at the milk bar and unlike his sisters, he never falls asleep during a meal! He is now therefore a good 20g's heavier than either of his sisters... Well he does seem to have his father's paws on him, so I expect he'll be a big boy when he's all grown up like his half-brothers are! :)

Anyway today I'm a very proud Mummy to all 7 of my babies, whether they are tiny and here or all grown up and off living with their own families! :)

Mummycat Monday...

Well it's hard to believe that the kittens are already 2 weeks old, they've been such good and well behaved little babies that time just flies by... So far they are quite unlike the 3 boys from my last litter better known and the "Escape Committee", these 3 are content just to cuddle, feed and play! :)

This is BG my biggest daughter practising her cute and innocent look, so far she's probably the best of all 3 at this! However Boy is by far the best at posing like a little lion, which reminds me of his half-brother Django... Boy is the strong silent type at present, but this is probably because he is rarely found without a full mouth! ;) Then comes the little one LG... She is as noisy as the others are quiet! Oh yes, this little girl has always got to get the last word in at the moment, I'm quite hoping that she'll grow out of it in time as she has a particularly shrill wail when she's starts up her complaining - there is one thing that's for sure, no one will ever take this little girl for granted! ;)

But for now they're all fast asleep and I think I shall be sensible and join them, before the next round of demands for feeding start up again! ;)

Mega Mummycat Monday...

Sorry for not posting to my bloggy yesterday, but I was busy being in labour and having 3 gorgeous ickle baby kittens! :) Yes, I had my Mummy totally fooled by my big belly, but the kittens were all a good size when born and have been sucking the milk bar dry all night and are now 15g's heavier each! You know Mother's Milk is really good stuff, even if it does seem to make Skeezix all silly and his legs all wobbly! ;)

Mummycat Monday...

Well I have just about 5 weeks to go now until the kittens are due and I'm making the most of my rest time and cuddles with Mummy and my brother Ramses! :) They have both been most supportive over the past few weeks, especially with the sudden and tragic loss of my beloved Sen-Chan... *sigh* Just to have known a mancat like him has been worth the sadness though and I shall do my level best to make sure his dear little sister Tama-Chan goes on to become the ladycat I know she can be! I know he'd have expected that of her, after all he had the most wonderful manners for a mancat! ;) I speak with authority here having shared my home with 2 mancats all my life and them both being messy eaters, who I'm constantly having to clean up after... Until I met Sen-Chan I thought all mancats were like that, but he gave me hope for mancatkind as he was both, gentle and kind as well as far neater than either my dear brother Ramses (who has the excuse of having a few teeth missing) and Tigmut'hep - who's only excuse is that he has a bad case of the munchies (post 'nip abuse hunger pangs) and can't quite remember what he's doing half the time (again down to 'nip abuse I think, rather than him having a seniorcat moment!)

Anyway I'm doing well and my ickle baby kittens are just starting to swell my belly a little, in fact my weight gain is just a little in advance of last time - this means there is a greater chance that I'll either have more kittens than last time or I'll have slightly bigger ones! It's all rather exciting, especially as Marie's Mommy is due just a few days after I am!!! :) Oh yes Marie's Blurpie and my kittens could well share a Birthday even - if so this might well be the same day as Daddy's Mum's Birthday! So you see mid February is going to be a busy time for us here... What's more my second-cousin Baillee could well be going to visit her first real boyfriend Storm by then, which will mean that her Mummy will come to visit with us for an hour or so, on her way home from dropping Baillee off. I so hope that I have some kittens here to show her by then as I know she'd love to see them and I do so love to show my kittens off! :)

Oh well time for another little nap before Mummy has to get ready for her Fizzy-O, you know I really don't know why they call it that as I've licked and licked that shoulder and it doesn't really taste any different than the other one... Maybe I'll have to try it sooner after she gets back to notice any Fizzy-O?! I also think that Mummy may well look for a t-shirt for Tigmut'hep later today when she and Daddy do the weekly food hunting with the D'boy. I think it's very admirable that Mummy and Daddy both try to teach D'Boy about food hunting, although I have noted that Daddy is not allowed to prepare it for eating... I gather this is because he's a little like Tigmut'hep and would scoff the lot before anyone else got a look in, even though Mummy says it's because of something she calls "total incompetence with regard to cooking" - since I understand the word totally to mean "everything" I'm pretty sure I have my own definition correct, in that he'd eat it all, or have to eat it all himself! ;)

Loud and Clear!

Well that's it I've decided to tell Mummy it's time to take me to visit Solo. I just can't wait a moment longer, honestly I did start telling her at 3:30am and she's still not taken the hint... What does a whoremoanall girlycat have to do to get her needs dealt with?! Oh what's that Mummy, I have to pack my bags and be ready to leave here in 45 mins!!!! :) Ok, I take back all the bad things I've said and thought for the last few hours - you really are the bestest Mummy ever and I promise to really enjoy myself. Ah, so I'm supposed to be Solo's combined Birthday adn KissMouse present all rolled into one am I?! ;) Oh and if I decide to mate with him today I could have 'ickle baby kittens due on Valentine's Day - well that's just too darn purrfect, I will do my bestest to seduce Solo in that case as Valentine's kittens would be so utterly wonderful! :)

So I'll be away for a few days, but I'm sure Ramses will keep you all up to date with anything interesting that happens around here during that time. Other than that I'm sure Mummy will start my Pregnancy Diary up again on our breeder website, so you can keep informed! :)

Free Friday, Family Friday...

I must say I'm really getting into this single life again! ;) I've had the most wonderful games of "Kitty Tag", "Bop" and "Herd of Thundering Elephants" with not just my half-brother Ramses, but the grumper Tigmut'hep! Yes, it's strange but true Tigmut'hep can play games and not constantly moan about how he's Da'Boss and us needing to show him respect... If he keeps this up I may well have to start liking him! ;)

Today is a big day though, it's the day where everyone in the USA celebrated my Nana's Birthday! :) Isn't it fantastic the way Americans have parties and set off fireworks just to celebrate my Nana's special day?! Sadly not many UK residents have taken up this tradition, although Mummy and all our family do and although they can't have a big party this weekend as a lot of them are busy they are having one next weekend! :) Of course we're offering our services in helping to eat up any left over meat, along with Nana's dog Misty... ;) I'm sure many of my Feline American friends will be offering the same sort of services for their own humans, if not please forward all left over steak this way please! ;)

Other than that I've had a few nice messages from my kittens to let me know that their humans are being very good to them and that they are very happy in their new homes! :) I do so love hearing from them and knowing that they are happy and healthy and getting all the love and fuss they require...

Family Friday

Well it's been rainy here for the past 48 hrs or there abouts and the kittens are driving everyone mad! They want to play, climb and run about and are doing so in the house... They are so bored with not having time in the run that they keep mugging me for more milk too and I have less places to get away from then too! While I understand their boredom and frustration at having to stay inside, they really do have to learn to behave a little better and tone their games down to match their surroundings... Using Mummy & Dad's bed head as a place to practice their tightrope walking skills really shows a lack of maturity and judgement on their part! The fact that they continued to do it until nearly 1am must have gone some of the way to getting all us cats and kittens alike locked downstairs last night... It seems beans don't nap enough during the day time to cope well with kittens landing on their faces while they're trying to get to sleep! ;) I too had to learn these lessons, though mostly the one about putting the bitey onto toes while the owner of said toes is sound asleep...

Other than that my entry form for the big Abyssinian Cat Show next month has been sent off and Mummy's started buying me lots of nice white bits for my show pen! :) They're all for me and will be kept specially clean just for showing me off on... Maybe I'll see a gorgeous mancat or 2 at the show! ;) Oh what do you mean I can't go making myself a belly full of kittens in the middle of the show hall Mummy?! What, not even if they're the bestest looking mancat ever?! Waaaa... It's not fair! Oh ok, I'll accept vast amounts of chicken and 'nip as a substitute for true love, as long as you promise I can have a whole week with a gorgeous mancat at some other time! ;) *giggle*

Time for myself Tuesday!

Oh yes it's that time at last... Not that the kittens have left home or anything, but that I'm just ready to let them have a few hours on their own playing with Tigmut'hep and Uncle Ramses in the run, while I have a little game of throw the mousie and fetch with Mummy! :) Well ok two big games and a nice long nap on her bed in the sunny patch to be exact... ;)

It seems that Mummy has missed our games a lot and is a little rusty at the mousie throwing, but she'll learn again if I keep making her play the game! *grin* Oh yes we all have our used for Mummy here, I play with her lots and lots, Ramses supplies the snuggles and furs her a lot and Tigmut'hep is always ready for the next meal to go down and likes to play with the boy and spend lots of time with him too...

So you see I'm looking good and getting myself show fit while still looking after my kittens and playing with them quite a few times each day! They're still doing their best to have a top up at the milk bar when they can, but each day it's getting less and less and my bits are going back to where they should be. In fact I reckon within a week or two from now I'll have my perfect svelte figure back and my titty fluffs will be almost grown back in place - though in this heat a little extra bare flesh isn't such a bad thing, unless of course you're silly enough to lay on your back in the sun and burn your private bits! :S Now that would be disastrous, as well as very painful...

Now back to getting myself ready for next month's show... Oh Mummy, I need to look at myself in the mirror for a bit and check and see if I'm purrty enough! ;)

Family Friday...

Well I had a lovely time visiting with some of the kittens Mummy's and Daddy's over the weekend and this Sunday I have Django's Mummy visiting too, so I'm hoping for some more chicken to eat... You see Mummy gave me lots of really yummy chicken while the kittens new bean parents gave them a little too! :) Of course my brother Ramses got lots of chicken too for his Birthday and we're all greatly appreciating his catnip plants out in the run! ;)

Now that the kittens are getting bigger, I've noticed that I'm starting to think about mancats a lot again... ;) Well you need a nice friendly mancat in order to get yourself a belly full of kittens and I'd certainly like another one of those! :) But Mummy says I have to wait until the end of the year before I can go for another "holiday" with a gorgeous mancat... :( So now you know why I was moaning in her ear at 5am this morning! ;)

Oh and it's not my fault that the kittens woke up shortly after that... Nor it it my fault that they were all very hyper and wanted to play the "Bed Moles" game! I'm pretty sure I never told them that a "Bed Mole" can get a better bitey on the toes either... Though I think Mummy was expecting "Bed Moles" as she took the camera to bed last night and had it ready to take photographic evidence of the chronic "Bed Mole" activity! ;)

Anyway Dad's away tonight, so the "Bed Moles" will have more room to play in without nearly pushing Mummy out of bed, so hopefully she won't moan to me about them tomorrow morning... ;)

Family Friday

Well it'll be a busy weekend here, so I doubt we'll get on-line much... But since it's due to my brother Ramses turning 5 yrs old and most of the kittens having visitors, I guess I can't moan at Mummy too much... All by Django will have a visitor or two this weekend, but he has to wait until next Sunday before his visitor comes to see him! I guess that means I'll have to play with him a little more than the others to keep him happy, though knowing Django's favourite game he'll have his mouth too full to complain! Oh yes he's certainly earned his nickname "Django Feed" rather well... ;)

Other than that the kittens had some more half-siblings born yesterday! Three little girls and a boy, it looks like their Dad's been busy! ;)

Back from the Vets

Just a very quick update to let you all know that although I've been off-line most of the day that the kittens were really good at the vets and Mummy nearly had to frisk the vet to see if he was keeping one for himself, he fell in love with them all so much! But of course he saves lots of fusses and praise for me, so he's forgiven for now! ;) Though it's very nice to hear someone saying you make the bestest looking baby kittens in the World, and of course he's right so I didn't have to disagree with him over a single thing! :)

So all the kittens have had their first shots and a full check-up ready to meet their new families! :) The nice thing is that the kittens aren't going to leave with their new families for many weeks to come yet. Mummy is governed by the GCCF guidelines and that means that kittens don't go to their new home until at least one week after their second shots and preferably not until they are 13 weeks old! :)

So I have lots more time to play with my kittens and now they have had their shots as soon as it's a nice hot day they can have a nice long playtime in the run with us all! :) Once they are all gone in mid June I shall have a nice holiday and relax, maybe attend a few shows and show off my beauty to some judges, then in November or December I will have a visit to some gorgeous Stud for a few days of naughtiness so I can come home and percolate kittens over winter and have some more next spring! :) (Just when I've lulled Tigmut'hep into a false sense of security!!!) *giggle* Well I can't deprive Ramses of kittens to play with, now that I've got him so well trained as a Manny! ;)

Titty Tuesday becomes Take Over Tuesday!

Apparently we're taking over the house here, especially all the good spots for napping on! At least we gave Mummy a reason for not being able to make her bed today! ;)

Family Friday

Wow, I can't believe the kittens are almost 6 weeks old already! They had a lovely visit with Dad's Mum yesterday and we all enjoyed some of Mummy's roasty turkey, Ramses and I even got gravy too! :) Oh yes the kittens loved having little bits of turkey to chew up and eat, it satisfied their urge to chew as well as the one to eat everything they find! ;)

This is my daughter Delta Peach having her first sniff of fresh air in the run yesterday afternoon with Mummy! :) Of course I came along too to make sure she behaved herself nicely and didn't squirm too much. I've been talking to her about acting in a ladycat like way, just like her namesake Miss Peach! This is all well and good until she sees something she wants to "bop" like a brother or Uncle Ramses tail, then it all goes to pot! ;)

It's only a little over a week to go until Mummy'll be taking the kittens to see Hubert Vet and getting them cuddled and fussed and told how incredibly cute they all are! I think I shall insist on coming along so she cat tell me what a wonderful Momma cat I am and how clever I am at producing such pretty kittens! :) He'll also give them each an injection to help make their immune systems work better at fighting off nasty stuff that could make them sick, so while this may hurt a little bit I've explained that it's to do them good and that they are not to put the bitey on Hubert's fingers, they are reserved for me! ;) We're lucky having a vet like him, as he appreciates the fact that he gets to handle a pretty large proportion of the Abyssinians born in the UK this year when he sees the kittens. Last year there were only 325 Aby kittens born and registered with the GCCF and he'll get to cuddle 4 at the end of the month! :)

Anyway it's nearly time for Mummy to make lunch, so I think I had better go see if there's any more of that yummy turkey around for me and the kittens to put the bitey on! ;)

Titty Tuesday

Well we made sure there were no repeats of yesterday's abysmal behaviour by waking Mummy up at 6:16am today! The kittens were most cooperative and climbed onto the bed and started to run riot all over it, until both Mummy and Dad were wide awake... :) We all therefore got a good cuddling before breakfast was due and there's little better to start the day off right than a good cuddle and a full tummy!

Following their breakfast the kittens fell back to sleep, leaving me a chance to play with the lovely ying yang scratcher that D'boy made for me! :) Ramses loves it too, as do all the kittens... Last night Delta wrapped her paws around it and tried to climb it like a coconut tree! ;) This made all the beans giggle and I must admit it did look pretty funny...

Anyway I shall take advantage of the kittens having a nap and it not being a mealtime for at least 1 more hour and have a nap myself! The door to the cat run is open and it's cool but sunny outside so I think I may well be able to find myself a sunny patch in the fresh air for it... :)

Some days life is just so darn good! :)

Family Friday

Well my lovely little family is now nearly a month old and to celebrate this fact those lovely people at Zoolatry made me this picture! :) You can see everyone on it, even Dandy's bottom! ;)

The kittens are getting big and strong on their daily diet of Mothers Milk, though the boys are starting to like solid food too. Delta Peach being so much like me has quite a passion for milk as such she's not shown a lot of interest in solid food yet... The thing I like most about the kittens learning to eat solids, is I get their left overs and they're all milky! Though I do miss the odd bottle I managed to get my tongue around... Maybe I can teach Mummy to give me my cat milk treats in a kitten bottle?! ;) Sometimes I miss being the baby, but mostly I love being a Momma cat!

Titty Tuesday!

Wow it's that time of week again and I can't believe how big the kittens are getting! They're all over 330g and toddling about when given the chance... This is making my life rather busy as all this toddling means I have to keep an eye on them, plus they don't half work up an appetite! Some days I feel they would happily spend hour after hour at the milk bar filling their little fat bellies full of yummy milk! ;) Well ok I can see the attraction of having a belly full of milk... Yes I know I have a weakness for it, but honestly it's my only weakness! Well that and cute mancats... ;) *giggle*blush*

The kittens have started to watch me have my main meals, so they start to learn that kitten cannot live by milk alone... They seem to enjoy watching me tuck into my breakfast most of all and you should see their little noses sniffing at the food, it's delightful! :)

Other than that the kittens have been watching a lot of movies on the TV over the Easter long weekend. They're pretty fond of being cuddled and it's nice as it means I can have a good nap and not worry about them for a bit... I trust Mummy to keep an eye on them for me, plus Ramses seems to stand guard too! He's turning out to be a big help all in all... I knew he was a good brother from the first time I met him, but I never knew he was this good! :) Tigmut'hep is slowly becoming less grumpy about the kittens, I think this has something to do with Mummy's new slippers - you see Tigs has unnatural feelings for Mummy's slippers and was devastated that she'd thrown the black suede ones out until he found the new ones with the furry lining! ;)

Titty Tuesday...

Well here's a photo of my lovely little daughter practising her keep fit and getting some well earned rest at the same time! Note how she's learning to look utterly cute and adorable as well as how to make the most of brotherly mancat heat... :) She really is a peach!

The boys or as they like to be known "The Escape Committee" have been keeping me and Mummy very busy, you see they like to climb over things and for such tiny ickle kittens they're very determined once they've decided to do so! I predict they're going to keep us all very busy in a few more weeks once they've fully mastered the art of walking... Last night one decided to try and chase Uncle Ramses and my poor brother nearly took off vertically and only just missed landing in the water bowl! ;) Please don't tell him that I laughed, but it was so funny to see... :)