Thursday, Jan. 2nd
Things are hopping in the house. You can see Annabelle up in her caterpillar. Cinnamon has been quite busy, and popped up for a visit. Cinn changed his mind.
What we have figured out, is that the kittens must be older than we suspected. Perhaps 8 months. Nutmeg is in heat. Cinnamon is grooming her, then grabs her neck, and then... well, 'nuff said! He's been up all hours in the night, then they fight. We are quite relieved that it's just hormones, not some evil plan to drive us nuts. (Not a long drive, not even a short putt!)
We were afraid that Annabelle was instigating things, but she's not. She comes to break up the 'fight.'
We had them booked to be 'doctored,' as my client calls it, but not until Feb. 12th. I explained the problem to them at the vet. Now, we have an earlier appointment, Jan. 14th.
We are boarding Cinnamon, to take the pressure off of all of us. We were up at 2 and 4 and 6 a.m. this Thursday morning, while Cinnamon answers the call to his nature. He was locked in the bedroom, but she was upset he was upset. Annabelle was chasing them, too. You get the noisy picture.
We locked her into the office, her favourite spot to sit and sleep is on top of the dresser. She peed on JB's office chair. sigh. She sleeps, bird watches, does kitten things.
It'll be about $200+ for boarding, but we spent $1000 trying to calm Buster down, then $1500 on Dorah. I forget how much on Daisy. sigh. These danged rescue cats!
They sleep calmly, then things get weird. The grooming, then he grabs her neck and climbs on top. I finally figured it all out.
We stopped on the way home from dropping him off for take-out chicken and pizza, just to give us a break. We found twin bucks at the pumpkins.
Friday, Jan. 3rd
Another early morning like the previous one, only Nutmeg peed on JB's chair, again, when she was locked in the office. She mrrppps away, and calls, grooms herself. She has to be in heat, although I don't remember having a non-spayed cat.Annabelle spent the night chasing Nutmeg under the bed. Poor JB. I'd taking sleeping meds and didn't hear a thing. We have a plan B, and popped Annabelle into the cat hotel with Cinnamon. This boarding will cost us $470. I also asked them to do a grooming for Annabelle.
That was a lovely, peaceful solution. Cinnamon has relaxed the most. He was shaking when I dropped him off on Thursday, but better Friday. Annabelle likes him. She will be good company.
At home, Friday afternoon, Nutmeg has begun to relax some, and came out from under the bed where she cowered most of the night, away from Annie. She snuggled with JB.
Friday night she spent on our bed, slept there all night!
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