The days are getting a bit longer here. Jocke took a few pictures of cats today. Miii is very cute. Both she and Albert are like kittens, always so playful.
Albert and Mii playing
Sunday afternoon
Category Archives: Playing
Gusten
Recently we got a lot of pictures from Gusten’s ‘mom’ Maria, and update about the little dark nose. 
Gusten is a classic seal point, like his sister Bea from B-litter. He was very similar to Albert in temper when they were small. A bit less wild, but as playful.
Like his mom and brother Tjabo (Antoine, who lives up north in Luleå) Gusten grew up to be an excellent hunter of not only toys. He goes out when it’s not cold.
Gusten, 6 weeks
I was not too surprised to hear that he even tried to sneak on a roe deer! The deer noticed him and left, but Gusten continued to follow the deer in the hunting fashion! I’ve seen Jossan do the same thing with a group of five roe deer and it is so funny! Cats are about 50 times smaller than deer. I think that cats are aware of their and their prey size, but instincts are still so strong – a prey is a prey, and cats are predators.
There are some pictures of Gusten playing with a real mouse and also catching a bird, but I won’t post them here, for the faint of heart (as I am. Our cats do not bring me presents anymore. Although Leroy and Miii can cach in the best case an insect. But Maven and Jossan… that is another story. Albert does not go out. If he did, he would probably be the first cat to actually catch a deer!)
Elora and Gusten, 2011
Gusten, 2011
Gusten, 2011
Gusten hunting, 2011
Gusten in front of the fireplace, summer 2011 is over
The white ornament
This picture is blurry since I had to take it fast; the moment I got into the living room, the bad white cat started crawling down.
Albert lives in our Christmas tree! The white squirrel, that is what he thinks he is.
The White Squirrel - or - Albert in the Christmas tree
Bea jumping high
We got one series of pictures from Agneta, Bea’s ‘mom’.
Agneta woke up early one morning. She heard noise that at first she thought came from the walls.
Was it mice, she wondered. No, it was Bea, standing very high, doing stuff! Agneta grabbed the mobile that was standing next to her bed and took pictures of the little explorer. After the last picture was taken, Bea fell down in her human’s bed. I thought to share the pictures here. Thank you so much for the photo, Agneta!
Bea, boldly jumping where no kitten has jumped before
Albert’s art piece
This is what waited for me when I got up this morning:
That is my pink backpack that Albert dragged and left on the floor. Also, there is a mouse that he previously ‘drowned’ in a water bowl (notice how my backpack is wet close to the mouse), and then ‘tied’ it behind the handle. It looked like a ritual killing committed by a psychopath!
Albert drowns toys in the water bowls and then leaves them in the food bowls and similar regularly, but this was a bit more advanced piece of work!
Albert’s beautiful offspring
Here is a few pictures of Alberts pretty kittens, First, the kittens from NO*Aceso cattery, in Oslo, Norway. On the picture (taken about a week ago) they are almost 10 weeks old:
NO*Aceso A-litter (picture by Janne Flusund)
And, the five small ones, in Viska’s cattery, Åkersberga, Sweden! Now, they were a bit harder to get together for a picture, since they were all over the place. They are 3,5 weeks old, and already have reading as hobby!
"We love books!" (picture by Monica Lindgren)
"Catch us if you can!" (picture by Monica Lindgren)
One of Albert's and Dixie's white daughters. A doll! (picture by Monica Lindgren)
11 weeks (part 2: reflections)
The kittens were curious about the table in the guest room. They were a bit surprised with their reflections. Earlier there were stuff on it, so I guess they did not notice how funny it actually is.
The kittens saw mirrors before, and they were a bit excited about other cats back there.
Beatrice, 11 weeks
Balthazar (front) and Blanche
Belle
Balthazar (front) and Blanche
Fetching toys in Oslo
Albert’s and Arwen’s kittens born in Aceso cattery in Oslo, Norway, are 7 weeks old now and are growing up nicely.
Both Arwen and Albert like to fetch, and their offspring is not different!
Here is a video filmed by Arwen’s ‘mom’ Janne, one Albert’s dotter is playing and learning to fetch:
B-litter; a photo session that went wrong
We tried to take some photos of the kittens today. They turned 10 weeks and all of them weigh over 1kg!
Here is a number of photos we took today.
And this is how it looked most of the time (one of their favorite toys is on the picture, it is made to look like a real dragon fly and we cannot leave them alone with it because of the plastic parts. They are crazy about it. The big cats adore it, too):
It's mine!
6 weeks
The kittens turned 6 weeks yesterday! They are not so small anymore and they have the playpen always open and only for fun; they are in the whole room even when we are not there. We tried to make it as kitten-proof as possible.
Last week we had a visit from Tjabo’s (Antoine from A-litter) owner Agneta who was in Stockholm and came by to see the kittens. I had to count them when she was leaving.
Rest time
Sleepy
High five!
The blue girl
The seal point girl and Albert. And the blue girl peeking.
Albert fetches a toy
Jocke filmed Albert this morning.
Albert is still playing like when he was small. He is nervous occasionally, because he is fertile, but he has a wonderful temper that didn’t vanish in spite of his raging hormones. We will probably neuter Albert soon, and then he will stop thinking about ladies and only play and be content.
4 weeks pictures
The kittens are playing more and more, seemingly trying to kill each other. I get very scared sometimes from these little killer claws going for the other kitten’s eyes… but somehow they do not end up hurting each other.
Come on, if you dare!
Down with these ears. You are a Siamese, not a bunny!
I said 'down with the ears'!
They did not starting eating other food yet. We tried, but they want only Jossan’s milk. They like to jump into whatever I give them on a plate and make a mess. That is fun.
It wasn't me!
Playful kittens, day #26
We took some pictures of the kittens today. Now they meow back when we call them and run towards us. They are wrestling and jumping around a lot. They are quite clumsy, but simply adorable!
A little boy and his blue sister are wrestling:
Talk to the paw!
What is on the other side?
Should I go out of the house or go back and nurse some more? Decisions, decisions...
Natural born killer
Albert introduced a new thing to his repertoire recently.
We noticed that his rat toys (that in fact are IKEA children toys) were sometimes all wet when we would come back from job. Weird, we thought. Sometimes they were wet AND covered in sand from the litter box. Yuck! Jocke joked that Albert must be drowning the rats, then buries them.
The victims; Albert's all time high - three soaking wet rats in a day
One day I found the huge rat toy on the edge of one of the water bowls. “Was he too big to be drowned?”, we joked with the little white killer.
Too big to be drowned
And then today I caught him in flagrante! Albert IS indeed drowning the rats!!!
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Ullisen
Swedish word ‘ull’ means ‘wool’ in English, and Ullisen could be translated to something like ‘Wooly’. Last week I bought Ullisen to our cats! Ullisen is made of wool from sheep from Öland (an island in Sweden) and with ecological catnip. Our cats have a hundred of toys. Some they love more, some not so much. You can never know what would be their favorite toy. They do not like the same toys. Jossan does not like toys at all.
The cats love Ullisen. No one of our cats is a wool-chewer, but it must be something in wool that tastes really good, since they love to play with it. Even Jossan plays with it sometimes (and she does not play with toys since she became fertile, 2,5 years ago, she is like, so above it…). But, Ullisen is really a Leroy’s toy. Although Albert thinks they should share. But, Leroy does not share toys. Oh, no.
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P.S. I bought Ullisen on Tradera (Swedish ebay, sort of), but the lady that makes ullisar also has a site here.
The winner takes it all. Or?
Well, no. Last Friday, in our cat group was more like – Leroy takes it all.
This picture of Miii and Albert posing in front of the Christmas tree won the 3rd prize (shared) on the Siames i Fokus Christmas 2010 competition and our prize arrived in the mailbox two days ago! Three yummy furry mice toys! (Thank you Nilla!)
Albert apparently thought that he and Miii were the ones who deserved the prize the most, since they posed for the picture, and went eagerly for the mice, but Leroy thought that such an opinion was ridiculous. He tossed two of the mice under the sofa immediately and then started playing with the third one. Alone!
 Oh, that is a yummy mouse! |
 Albert, you may watch while I am playing with the mouse. |
 Look, the mouse is flying! I am flying! |
 Someone help!!! Grandpa Leroy is a big bully! Muaaaaaaa |
To go where no cat has gone before… or?
It is that time of the year when a beautiful flower called amaryllis blossoms. Amaryllis is not a flower that cats should chew on, since it can cause vomiting, diarrhea, depression, lack of appetite and other kind of nasty symptoms.
Although cats are not all crazy to chew on the things that are poisonous for them, our Albert is still very young and likes to chew on whatever. So, we lifted amaryllis high on the book shelf where it’s supposed to live until Jelena’s mother takes it with her (Jelena’s parents are visiting and her mom, a dog person who never owned a cat, only dogs, bought an amaryllis plant).
Albert saw the flower and of course it looked yummy and the little long cat tried to reach it:
 Look, there is something up there. I want it! |
 If I stretch just a little bit more... |
Oh, no, I am falling!
Albert property laws
This is Albert’s first Christmas and he is delighted with all the ornaments! He likes to drag and carry them around, and chew on the branches.
I’ve tried real tree, plastic tree, hoping he will leave something alone, but, nope – he likes it all, nothing is safe and everything is tasty.
Every morning the poor Christmas tree is disintegrated and the ornaments lie all over the living room.
The worst was when he just discovered the beauty of everything that goes with Christmas. Now, two weeks later, Albert is a bit less creative with his constant rearrangements of our living space, but still not uncreative enough, to put it that way…
I am helping!
 Tasty! |
 How do you mean - I can't eat that? |
 Yes, I can! |
 Why are you here? That is mine! |
 You too! Go away! Mine! |
Crowded? No! There is always enough space to fit me! And - more glitter!
Jossan’s kittens turn 6 months!
Happy 6 months babies!
Albert celebrated his first six months of life by dragging extra many things from the upper to the bottom floor. He probably thought THAT is why he got petted a little bit extra today, so he kept on working on earning some more praises!
Here is one picture of Sung (Alessandro) we got from his matte today. He is a blue point Siamese and lives in Malmö.
Here is a video of the blue beauty wrestling with Skeletor. Thank you so much, Ellinor for the picture and video!
Sung weighs 4 gk now, Tjabo (Antoine) 3,8-3,9kg and Gusten 3,4kg! Big kittens! Alfred got his first snowball as a present from the little girl he lives with and talked a lot while sitting next to it in the bath tub.
The towel must die (part three)
We live with three generations of famous towel-killers.
“Mauuu mau mauuuu”, the first we hear the rebel yell from the bathroom, and then we find Albert proudly standing on the towel he wrestled down and killed for good.
Remember these two pictures (taken 2,5 and 1,5 years ago; Leroy and then Leroy and Jossan)? Well, now their little grandchild/child does the same.
Visit to the humans owned by Archimedes and Misty
Three days ago we were so happy to visit Archimedes and Misty and their owners.
Those are two very happy and loved cats. Archimedes, pet name Ash, is so big now, we could not believe our eyes when we saw him! He is almost as big as Jossan and looks a lot like her. From some angles you can see that his head is larger and his proportions are typical for tomcats. Also, he has better shape of ears and a bit rounder eyes than Jossan, but from the pictures I took, if I did not know it was him, I’d think it was his mom! |
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Misty has the softest fur I have ever felt on a cat (she is a Cornish Rex) and is very mild and loving in nature. Ash is quite active and cute as he’s always been, completely comfortable around people; he is one little purring and playing machine. He greets everyone, as he greeted us, but I also think that he did recognize us. He showed us a lot of love, but at the same time he seemed very happy and content with his humans and Misty.
Look how nice they have it there!
Packing (or -’helping paws’)
After every box we pack we have to make sure that no cat somehow jumped in and tried to hide. Cats like boxes. Albert is smaller and a bit hard to notice. Here, we documented how at one occasion Jossan helped us find him and, also, tried to pull him out of the box he managed to break into!
“I see you!” (Jossan managed to locate Albert)
“Mau mau mauuu” (“Get out!”)
“Mrauauauauuauuu” (“I am getting him out! Look, matte!”)
And then I took Albert out of the box which we closed again and put under another box that he cannot break into (or so we believe…).
Albert fetches a mouse toy
Albert is 20 weeks old now and loves to fetch.
Our apartment is a mess, because we started to pack recently. We are moving next week. It will be so good to live in a house!
Ada and Alfred in Linköping
Ada and Alfred moved together to Linköping, where they will live with one little girl and her mom. Alfred chose his matte when she visited the kittens and the little girl wanted Ada even before they met. I think that Ada and Alfred are a very good match, to live together, personality-wise. Also, they are very loved by their matte and her little daughter.
Alfred is very talkative (Antoine is the most talkative, but Alfred’s vocabulary was the most impressive one) and gentle, but also quite active (although I do not know who was not active, all seven kittens were very active and social from the start).
Ada was always so brave and curious and first with everything. A bit naughty, but so sweet. And the way she would look at you would make anyone melt. She and Archimedes (Albert a little as well) have the most amazing way to make an eye contact and simply hypnotize a person.
Funnily enough, I think that the other four have the better eye shape, according to the Siamese standard, since they are more almond-shaped. But, I notice on Albert that his eyes are getting much more almond-shaped than they used to be. It is exciting to see them grow and change.
On their way to their new home, 2 hours in the car, Alfred cried without stopping. But, upon arrival it did not take them a long time to make themselves feel at home. And, as you can see, they continued to develop their gardening skills that they started here.
Many thanks for the photos we got from their matte!
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Twelve weeks (the next step – world domination)
Within next six days all of the kittens, except for Albert that is staying with us, are moving to their new homes.
Antoine is on his way to Luleå now (about 800km from here, traveling by car). His matte called us twice today and we know how the little one is doing.
He is our most talkative kitten, and I guess that there is a lot to talk about on such a long trip… they are spending the night at a family friend’s place and will arrive to Luleå tomorrow. Antoine is researching the car and his room (including the curtains) thoroughly and it is going quite well for him. It was very hard to separate from Antoine and there are five more kittens to leave! The feelings are mixed.
We are very proud of our little furry ‘babies’ and hope that they will live many healthy and happy years with their new families.
The next step – world domination:
