Despite our best efforts with Muska (one of our cats), she is still a walking billboard with the words “Does anyone knows of diet pills that work for cats?” Although Kara is nowhere near as bad, because they are both house cats (we live on the fourth floor, next a main road, and they have never been in the “wild”), they do tend to pile on the ounces quite easily. We cut down on the amount of wet food we put out each day, though the dry food is doled out when that dish is empty. Kara takes a lot longer to complain about empty bowls, but Muska will meow her most pathetic sounding cry if she is hungry, and even Anna will try and help by getting packets of the wet cat food from the cupboard and putting them (unopened) into a bowl if she hears Muska’s pitiful outbursts!
As YouTube is still not displaying the Video Upload page , I thought I would take the opportunity to post a picture that Irina snapped recently. Karra and Muska (sisters) are our cats, and other than play fights/chases around the flat, they get on pretty well. Occasionally, they snooze next to each other, and even if the temperature hasn’t dropped, they will hug or cuddle. This time it was on the settee…
This time we have Kara sat in one of her favourite places in our flat – way up high, next to the ceiling, on top of a cupboard in the kitchen. She jumps from the floor to a work surface (naughty, don’t go there, which is normally met with a look of disinterest), from there to the top of the fridge/freezer, a small hop up to a shelf, and then a little jump left onto the cupboard.
I love the green laser eyes
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This is a shot of Tishka’s kittens, back when three out of the original four hadn’t yet found new homes. Ksusha is still left, and it looks like she may end up taking up permanent residence
Anyway, all three liked to relax in Anna’s rocking horse/chair, and so rather than fight, they all just squeezed in.
Completely out of order (I’ve written and post-dated about a dozen Anna related posts in the last couple of days), but as we’re talking about trying to find a new home for just one more kitten, I thought I’d post this video out of sync. We have mini-Kara – the black one, who has already been adopted. The two other kittens not in the video have also gone. However, Mini-Muska, the second kitten in this video, is still looking for a good home in Astana. Free to a loving potential owner.
Taken towards the end of September, these photos were taken of the three remaining kittens that hadn’t yet found a new family to live with. Since then, only one hasn’t yet been re-homed. The two in the second picture have already been taken away. So if you know of anyone here in Astana who would like the kitten in the first picture, please do let them know about this site/specific post. We think the kitten is female, which seems to be a problem for Kazakhs – the thought of more kittens in the future put a lot of people off. Spay the kitten when she is old enough, we know of a good vet here in Kazakhstan (Astana specifically) who took care of our two cats). Male cats tend to spray to mark their territory, so as long as have the kitten treated, a female one would be better for most homes!
Thanks to Irina for spotting this photo opportunity whilst I was out of our flat. No posing was involved, and luckily Muska didn’t run away or re-position herself when Ira grabbed the camera to take the shot…
hmmmm, another post where WordPress decides that I didn’t really want to use the built in gallery function, and leaves the images orphaned without a post assigned to them. Well anyway, these photos were taken on the 31st of August, and we have now finally reached the end of the backlog. Here you can see Anna starting to learn how to use objects to assist in standing up (hands near her for the inevitable wobbly moments, obviously). Although she can now roll with gay abandon, and crawl backwards, Anna still doesn’t seem to want/be able to coordinate moving forwards. However, given that forwards it same really as horizontally rotating 180 degrees, then moving backwards, she still seems able to get where she wants. Namely off the safe, clean playing area we lay down here or at the inlaws, and onto the much more interesting carpet.
To round off this post, we have a shot of Kara using Anna’s nappy changing mat as a stalking area to pounce on Muska the next time she enters the living room.
, I thought I would take the opportunity to post a picture that Irina snapped recently. Karra and Muska (sisters) are our cats, and other than play fights/chases around the flat, they get on pretty well. Occasionally, they snooze next to each other, and even if the temperature hasn’t dropped, they will hug or cuddle. This time it was on the settee…
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