Kitten Tales

The kittens are ten weeks old now, and are much more at home and active than a few weeks ago. And they’re growing fast.

Having the two of them means that although they largely entertain each other, they’re on the go constantly.

As soon as one starts to nod off they’re awakened by their tail being chewed by the other. And so the cycle starts again with zoomies and play fights until they’ve totally exhausted each other.

We try to interact with them as much as we can so that they get accustomed to being handled. They come over now for strokes, purring loudly. And sometimes they fall asleep on us, never for long, but very sweet.

Fergus is quite a bit heavier than Freya and generally ends up wrestling Freya to a standstill. She squeals in protest when she’s had enough. Having said that, both claw and bite each other with similar ferocity, so it’s certainly not all one-sided.

They’re slowly learning to retract their claws when playing with us. To start with we were just lacerated. Now, if we squeak, we get patted with kitty soft paws.

Progress of a sort.