autumn colours and kittyspam

[llywela]

Autumn colours picspam posted over at scene_again, if anyone is interested.

It's been busy times at my house lately - I'm currently getting all set up for a decorating bonanza to begin, as my dad has booked next week off work to get started on my house. That means I have to decide on my colour schemes already! I now have a nice collection of paint samples to work my way through. The actual decorating could be interesting, with the cats underfoot. Poppy shouldn't be any trouble, as she still associates Dad with the dog and therefore keeps out of his way, but Alfie will want to be all over him - and in the paint tin, if possible, no doubt!

Alfie hasn't actually been terribly well lately. Shortly after my sister and her husband went home after staying for that long weekend, he developed terrible sickness and diarrhoea and I had to take him to the vet, who prescribed two different medicines that both had to be squirted down his throat. You can imagine how much he didn't love that! He is much better now...at least the diarrhoea came to an end pretty quickly, for which both myself and Alfie were exceedingly grateful! Now that he has finished the medicine, though, he has started to have occasional bouts of vomiting again, which I will have to mention to the vet when I take him back for his second injection. Between that and his continued food phobia, I suspect he has rather a fragile digestive system and am hoping he will grow out of it. On the bright side, however, he is very active, playful and content and is still gaining weight and growing, so there can't be too much wrong with him.

Here is Alfie while he was poorly, all cwtched up feeling a little sorry for himself but also enjoying being well and truly pampered.


Alfie checking his emails and the latest news over at BuffyForums.


Alfie feeling much better and showing off how sweet and adorable he knows he is.



Alfie playing with Poppy.


I am so glad the two cats get along as well as they do - they really have adopted one another as the very best of companions, and love cuddling up together on the bed as much as they love chasing each other around the house and wrestling. They will spend ages cwtched up washing each other, and I have even caught Alfie trying to suckle from Poppy! She used to do the same thing to the back of my neck when she was this age, as I recall. Alfie was doomed to disappointment there, of course, but seemed to find the intimacy comforting and Poppy didn't seem to mind in the slightest, just sat there washing him. 'Twas adorable...although, of course, just a few minutes later they were both downstairs looking for real food!



Get that camera out of my face! Enough pictures already! *G*

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[catsdownunder.livejournal.com]

Rosie is a biscuit girl ... she will eat a little bit of canned cat food, however 99% is biscuits. She loves her water and we have plenty of containers around for her as she prefers the container to be big. Hence we go so far as having a BUCKET ... full to the top so she can reach ... sitting in the lounge, ice cream containers in both bathrooms and a large dish outside. Every time I see 'milk' I think ... not cows milk ... no you would not give him that, there is special milk for cats you can buy. So don't worry, as long as he has fluid, biscuits will be fine. Rosie loves Whiskas ... the little pillows ... we have tried her on others, but these are what she loves. Thank goodness they have many flavours.