Most is here!

The new cat has arrived. We decided to call him Most, which is polish for bridge. This because of how he raised his back and walked on the tip of his toes to look big to Tengil. It's gone quite well, I think. Tengil plays a bit hard with the small one sometimes, tough... But he also licks him and they can eat together.

Most loves food and has a real big belly. He ate here just half an hour after he arrived. He's a bit more reserved then Tengil and sometimes run aways if you tries to pick him up. But then again, he spent the night snuggling with me.

Morning report 23/3, First morning with the ”Spy”

Morning report 23/3, First morning with the ”Spy” – day 32 of my captivity

THEY must be suspecting something, I'm afraid that THEY even found out about my escape plans. I don't know how that could have happened, I have been playing along in the dumb kitten role while THEY were at home and in front of the camera – maybe there is another hidden camera out there? or the girl on the wall is just fake sleeping?

Anyway, the plan won't work now – I didn't get anything done during the night - the one normally sleeping late, has moved back out on the sofa again, and the visitor stayed the night, even after me constantly attacking him. I'm starting to suspect that he isn't a visitor at all, but a spy that will be living here for a while, he got his blanket with him, I can't stand the smell if it, disgusting! He is small as a spy, but tough – and goes by many different names, but his real name is still a mystery to me. When I woke up, the spy was still sleeping, I thought that there maybe was some possibility to get my plan going ahead, but I was wrong. As soon as I started working, the one called Tomek woke up, and what could i do? I jumped into my '12 weeks old kitten' role once again, makes me wanna puke, I had to lick his face and bite his nose, and when I couldn't stand it any more and tried to hide, he grabbed me and forced me down under the blanket. I think the terrible smell made me doze of, because when I awoke again, it wasn't as dark and the Woman was up. After her filthy hands had touched me, she distracted the male prison guard with some talking and I took my chance and sneaked away to the window spot, I wish I could figure out how to walk through that invisible barrier.

I even think I fooled them into thinking that I fell asleep, since they woke up the spy and started to have a meeting of some sort, I'm sure they were discussing if the spy was ready to keep me under control; They came to the conclusion that he wasn't, because Tomek didn't leave, and I'm sure it isn't Saturday yet..

Once the woman guard, possibly called Britta, left I started harassing the spy again, Tomek didn't interfere, I guess he felt asleep. I harassed him hard, every time he tried to get out from under the sofa I jumped at him, so he fled, but they are smart; they build him a secret space under the sofa, I went looking for him under the sofa but the spy was nowhere to be found. But once I hid myself in a spot around the sofa he was out again. If I could continue doing this he would have starved, but it's impossible with Tomek there, he saw what I was doing and put me in the small mobile prison. I struggled to get out, but with no success. They used this time to do some military training, Tomek throwing balls to the spy and the spy fighting them, he's starting to be good, but not as good as me. While they trained I monitored their very move, but they noticed and moved my into another room. Through the crack in the door I could see the spy training, eating and drinking. This made him tired, so once I was transferred back to the main cell, he was so exhausted that he didn't run away from my attacks, so I had to intensify them. With success I might add, he is now back in his sleeping place, with him sleeping and Tomek in the kitchen I could focus on this report.
I hear Tomek's steps, better to fake sleeping, until next time.

/Agent 52

A cat is a cat

Now it's just a couple of days until cat with no name arrives. We went to see him last week and he was so small. But his color seems really nice, he will probably not be chocolate-tabby masked, but rather chocolate mackerel tabby (tigrerad on swedish).
Tengil is up and running as usual, things have gone very well with him. He plays a lot but also cuddles a lot. He's started to learn to play on his one. Right now he's playing with a little ball with a bell inside. Very funny. He's also exploring upwards in the apartment. We got the double bass (kontrabas) back and kept it in its soft case next to a book shelf. One day we heard a strange sound, and discovered that Tengil had climbed to the book shelf top, using the double bass. We removed the soft case after that...

Here's a little video clip on Tengil playing in a a tube. When we got him he was a bit smaller, and could easily crawl through it. He still can, but now he also can enjoy spinning in it.

Preparing for new cat and a walk

Less then two weeks until the new cat arrives, still no name. So today we went to the pet shop to buy some more things, we decided to buy one more catoilett, the same type as before since it works great For you who don't remember, its a self cleaning catoilett, that is, you turn it around and the lumps fall into a certain scoop. No need to dig into the sand! (This is how it looks)

Then we of course bought some more toys. The funniest toys so far has been toys that are not toys, but junk, preferably junk on a string. We also bought a harness and a leash and started to prepare for a walk. Previously this week we bought a new scratchy thing, since Tengil still prefers the carpet... But it didn't work. Fun to play with -yes. Good to use your claws on - no. I've also ordered some books about cats, but they haven't arrived yet. Yes, we buy a lot of stuff.

I've weight Tengil today, 1,9 kg. Yes, he is getting big!

Anyway, we put the harness on Tengil. It wasn't very easy since he thought it was something to play with. Once it was on we started to play with him and it went fine. He didn't seem to mind the harness, but did spend more time than usual throwing himself on the floor and rolling about. But all in all, it went fine. Now we also have to put on the leash and train him with that. The harness is just used for training when he's gotten fully grown, we'll buy a new, fancy one.

Working from home...

.. is not easy when you have a kitten. I tried this afternoon, but Tengil was rather active, which meant that I had to watch him and stop him from doing all kinds of stuff he shouldn't. Later he settled down and I discovered that he almost fell asleep if I stroke his ears.

Tengil likes to play with buttons, especially big buttons on cardigans. I don't know why, but he pulls and bites them. He discovers things to play with on the most strange places.

Now it's about two weeks until the second cat arrives. Before I used to think that Tengil and the new cat would be around the same size, even though, they are one month apart. But now I really think that Tengil has grown, he has definitely become fatter, so their size will probably differ a lot. I really hope that they will get along. We choose kittens who were rather active and enjoyed playing with their siblings. I really think they would benefit of each other, a human just can't play with a kitten as a cat would.

Why cornish?

This is Tengil's fur. As you can see it got waves. That's one feature for the cornish rex. The fur is also very soft to touch, like velvet. I think Tengil will have a good fur when he's grown up, both his parents had wavy furs and he seems to have thick good fur (not that I know what I'm talking about). That's the most obvious thing that separate cornish from other cats. They also have big eyes and ears and are slim. Tengil looks somewhat like a rat, from time to time. He's not round and cuddly as most kitten. But I really like his look, and from my point of view, he's really cute.

One other thing we liked about cornish rex is that they are active and some even say they're a bit like a dog. I like that, I don't want a cat that just lies on the sofa, but rather is interested in what I'm doing. Today Tengil helped me do the laundrey. He assisted in climbing around in the laundry bags and made sure I didn't forget some clothes in a paper bag.

It is sunny today, which seems to be a little problem for Tengil. On one hand, he wants to lay in the warm sunspots, but on the other hand, that quite boring and he want's to play. This leads to a little problem. We see a cozy kitten laying in the sun and goes to pet him, but Tengil instead sees a hand to play with coming towards him... I've solved this temporary by attaching the vippa in the book shelf so that it sticks out, this way, he can lay in the sun and still play.

What have changed?

First of all our living room. It is now covered in cat toys or cat related items. We have the scratching-pole, the playtunnel, the 'vippa', the mice, the bed, the bed made out of a cardbord box, the cardbord box for playing in, the paper bag for playing in, the cat-grass on the table, the 3 blankets on the sofa (one actually is for protecting the sofa where Tengil likes to climb up on it), the feathers (from the Vippa) and last, but not least, the paper - there are small pieces of paper everywhere!

Other ways things have changed. Well for one thing, we are greeted by a cozy cat, who just loves the curl up on ones chest and purr.I spent this morning with the computer on the lap and Tengil on my chest. I now have to shower with the door opened, otherwise Tengil sits outside and meows. My hands now have some scratchmarks, not as many as I anticipate though.

I've also learned some lifelong knowledge, for one thing, don't lift up a cat to the face when having a piece of paper tissue stuffed in you nose (I've changed here since a friend thought that we put a a4-paper up our noses to play with the cat, that is not the case, I had a nose bleed). It will get ugly! Don't walk around without socks if a kitten is nearby. It will get ugly!

Yesterday was the first day with sun here since Tengil moved in with us. Tengil spent some time trying to catch the sun on the carpet. There was one area with sun on the carpet and Tengil ran from one side of it to the other to catch it. Then he found some good sun spots to lay in, like this one: