Retrospective: When We Were Kittens

 UPDATE August, 2019:  Here is a current picture of our beautiful Mom, Lucy:

When we were kittens, we liked to sleep on the bench by the bedroom window:
 

 

After waking up, we would wrestle with each other or play with our toys:
 

Sometimes we climbed up the back of the bureau into a drawer and fell asleep and no one knew where we were until Pat happened to come along and open the drawer:



That's our Mom, telling us to get right down out of there, NOW:



One day Mom told us we were going downstairs for the first time! She told us to line up at the bedroom door:


Mom said, "Nobody's going downstairs until everybody behaves! That means you, Smartie - stop poking at Taffy!"


From the top of the stairs it looked like such a long way down:


But eventually we made it -- all the way into the downstairs family room! Where we huddled together in the corner to decide what to do next. From top to bottom and left to right, we are Tootsie, Cocoa, Smartie, Hershey, and Taffy:

[KITTEN PHOTOS by Shloime Perel, August 2006 - thanks Shloime, from the Jets!]

By the way, after leaving us, our Mom proceeded to make quite a good life for herself: she happily shares a beautifully decorated home with four humans, a large dog named Kaiser, and another cat, named Moses, who all adore her. She even has a new name - she now calls herself Lucy:


(You can see where we get our good looks!)

This is how Lucy reacted when Pat visited her and asked if she would like to get together with us for a reunion:



That's ok, Lucy, we understand! We remember how naughty we were as kittens, and we thank you for your patience! Love from - THE GOLDEN JETS

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Note: If you would like to see more of our baby pictures, and read about how we came to live with Pat and Henry, take a look at our older posts, especially:

Siblings Together for the Last Time (October 2006)
http://srebrnik.blogspot.com/2006/10/news.html

Return of the Foster Kittens (September 2006)
http://srebrnik.blogspot.com/2006/10/return-of-foster-kittens.html

Cocoa and Siblings (August 2006)

http://srebrnik.blogspot.com/2006/09/cocoa-and-3-siblings.html

Three Kittens (July 2006)
http://srebrnik.blogspot.com/2006/08/three-kittens.html

The Pen In Winter (January 2009)

Some readers of this blog have been asking: Are we able to use the Cat Recreation Area ("pen" for short), even in winter?

Well of course!

For technical reasons that we cats refuse to acknowledge, Pat and Henry say that in winter, we can't have the windows open 24 hours a day. This silly rule just makes life harder for them, because they have to open the windows for us whenever we want to go out or come back in again.

In these pictures, Natasha and Summer enter the pen from the laundry room on the first floor:






Meanwhile, Tootsie and Hershey demand access from the basement window:



Every cat has a great time out there:









Although Schooner enjoys the pen, he thinks it's even better to be outside and on top:





Hershey decides it's time to come back inside: "Hey, is anybody there??"


"I SAID, Let us in NOW!"


"What do you think the problem could be, Cocoa?"


Cocoa is the last one in:

Now we are (temporarily) Nine! (January, 2009)

Just in time for the New Year, Natasha and Boris came to stay with us! Mother and son, they were left at the Prince Edward Island Humane Society. Boris was too tiny to be there, so he and his Mum will be living with us for a few weeks now. We have lots of fun playing with them!


Boris loves toys!




Natasha is SO svelte and elegant, we all think she is quite the femme fatale:



She must think so too, because she enjoys looking at herself in the mirror:


We will be posting more pictures soon . . . .

Important Note: If you live in the Charlottetown area, please consider adopting this dynamic duo!

Now we are Seven! (December, 2008)

It's been a long, long time since we posted any news here -- but you will understand why when you read about what we've been up to!

In November, Schooner Cat came to live with us. Schooner is big, beautiful and very silky:


Schooner is fifteen years old, and was a bit down on his luck when he came to us. But we are all so glad he's here! Especially Summer Cat, who is delighted to have a new friend whose tail is as plumey as his own.



Schooner and Summer are best buddies!

Our New Fortress! (August 29, 2008)

Since the playground opened in mid-July, the basement window leading to it has always been open. Cats have always been able to go to the playground whenever they wanted, day or night.

Until today. When, to the amazement of the cats, the window to the playground was CLOSED!

Even worse, the cats heard sawing and hammering. For hours and hours.

FINALLY, the playground re-opened. The cats bounded through their basement window to find -- A FORTRESS!


Cats set to work exploring. They soon saw that the Fortress serves as a massive entrance to their basement window, and that it will provide shelter in bad weather. On the first landing, there is plenty of room to relax or play. A ramp leads from the landing down to the ground. Or, cats can jump from the landing, to higher shelves within the fortress.

From the top of the fortress, which has a peak so that snow will slide off, the cats can jump up onto the highest rafters in the playground. Best of all, from a shelf mounted on the back of the fortress, they can run in and out of the first-floor window that now provides a SECOND portal to and from the playground!

(Remember - CLICK TO ENLARGE any picture on this page):




The cats also discovered that one of the posts inside the playground has been transformed into a circular staircase. They saw immediately that they could use the stairs, not just to climb up to the rafters, but as launching pads from which to ambush each other!





The cats are increasingly excited as they figure out more and more ways to play on the Fortress and on the circular stairs. They are grateful to Dean Martin and Brodie Machon, who built the Fortress and stairs:


Pat and Henry say, THANKS AGAIN to Dean Smith Carpentry Services, 69 Kingston Road, Cornwall, PEI, COA 1HO.

Compare our Fortress to this one, at the Wildcat Sanctuary in Sandstone, MN. To see more photos of our big cousins, go to http://www.wildcatsanctuary.org/.