I gotched it!

Tanaka caught in action catching the lure :)

The Great Grey Stalker

Toro-the-stalking-lion lying in wait for the bird to come flying past...ssss....

Gotcha! No way you going anywhere else little birdie...

He is sometimes too goofy and would insist on looking under Tanaka's blankie for the bird when it lies just beside him...:)

This morning Bujang asked me to play hide and seek but of course Toro and Tanaka gave my position away to Bujang. We played for a few sessions and then Toro decided to ask me to get his favourite lure Da Bird. I know that he would go off to sulk if all the boys get into the game so we played behind closed doors where he ran and flew and generally stalked the bird, on the bed, off the bed and in behind strange spaces. Then he got distracted by a real pigeon and went to look at that. So I went outside to play with the amigos :)

Tuesday Games

Megat ready to strike....grrrr....

Crunch!!!

More crunching...

Its not so good san...but I like it better than the black thingees...

Megat was all reday to play this morning with the boys. He was running away from me all morning as he knows that every morning is a prednisolone morning. But we had completed his course of pred yesterday so today is merely going to the vet for the chemo (maybe) and haematology tests. He sneaked and stalked and generally crunched the lure :) The boys left him alone with the lure as everyone, Tanaka included, knows what turn -taking is. When the lure is in the air, its everybody's game but once someone gets it, then its not your turn :)

Hunting the hunter

Shhh...

Tread carefully...

Now's the time..I'll get'cha ...

The quarry... hiding under the table :)

Bujang is now quite game to play with Megat. This is all due to Megat's persistence in getting him to play with his mock attacks. Since Megat has never seriously tried to claw him and would stop mid-attack Bujang got more confident that there will be no real fight. Also Bujang knows that either grandma or me would take Megat away from the fray if Megat actually fights with him (we had done this consistently when these mock attacks or threats began months before).

So both of them know the routines and consequences. Added to this of course is Totoro's brave attempts to play with Megat. Toro accepted Megat quite readily as they had become friends so much earlier. Toro is veryone's friend really :)

Now Megat and Bujang play catch with each other and I do not have to separate them or go to someone's rescue. I must say all the boys have accepted each other's existence in the family. :) Phew!

Catnip mouse

What's with this cat?

Gotcha!!

Woah! Catnip overdose...

What just happened to me?

The much-mauled catnip mouse

I went to the pet store on Sunady to stock up on cat food for the CNY holidays. I have a fear that my cats would have no food as shops would close for two or three days and I have been running out of cat food. I got the usual fussiecat and Natural Balance canned food for the kitties. Nowadays, only Bujang still eats the NB. Toro is now refsuing to eat the NB. I don't know why and so I have resumed giving him his fussiecat. Only Megat is still going strong but he would only eat his softened biscuits with some NB.

I bought megat 3 catnip mice so that he would play by himself even when I am in the house. It was quite a success as he tore down the house running and throwing his mouse in the air and once he even carried it in his mouth. Unfortunatley after THAT one time, he has yet to repeat this mouse-in-mouth performance. I had ideas of teaching him to play 'fetch' :)) I was glad he enjoyed himself and he even ate some catnip which threw him into a daze :)

The other kitties looked at the mice with great disdain and ignored them and him. I guess they think they're too old for catnip mice. :)