Hello, I’m Dr. Maja! Learn my introduction to study extra about me and Miki, the kitten who made me a cat particular person.
Kittens – the gorgeous, gracious mini lions, actually. Cutest issues ever! Not less than once they’re asleep. It’s a complete completely different ballgame once they’re awake. And so they’re awake very often. Sure, they are saying cats sleep as much as 18 hours a day, if no more. Not my two. They’re all the time awake on the fallacious time. And I’m critically rethinking my life choices in the intervening time. Miki is simply the right cat in each approach, and these two kittens typically appear to be they’re the very reverse.
Longing For the Time When Miki Was a Kitten
Miki was the very best kitten ever. He beloved enjoying with me, utilizing numerous toys, however he was additionally spending time outdoors below my supervision, because it was the center of the summer time. He by no means scratched me. Even to today, he has solely scratched me a few occasions, when he acquired frightened by a canine and when he had his little mishap with the harness and a leash, getting caught up on a tree. He’s such a sweetheart. He offers me mild love bites and that’s it. With Minnie and Nara, now counting 4 weeks, I’m lined in scratches, on my arms and arms, in addition to my thighs and even ft.
Not Certain Which Kitten Is Worse
Initially, I used to be satisfied that Nara was the worst one. She was the newest to reach and clearly I had already bonded with Minnie. However in fact, the 2 of them are having a detailed competitors for the title of essentially the most mischievous kitten that ever lived.
Minnie is my little love bug, at the least she was for the primary two weeks of dwelling with me. Now, it’s as if she has two personalities. One minute she loves me, she is purring, kneading, head-butting my face, and even giving me mild licks, or mendacity on my neck (massive mistake). The subsequent minute, and it’s actually a query of minutes, she turns right into a tiger and tries to scratch me and chew my fingers, my chin, ears, something she will come up with. Sleeping has develop into a tense time. I’ve develop into conditioned to get up in worry to the sound of purring, as I do know what’s subsequent.
Nighttime Ought to Be For Sleeping
Properly, not for these two. It’s 3 AM. Miki is making an attempt to sleep on his mattress excessive up the place he can’t be disturbed, nonetheless trying fairly aggravated, the canines are on prime of me, dwelling in worry from the 2 kittens that see their tails as essentially the most beautiful toys, regardless of the various toys laying across the room. And as an alternative of silence and candy goals, there may be the unpredictable loud ruckus of issues falling over from all types of heights, hissing, toys being tossed across the ground within the loudest trend, and extra. And simply because it all quiets down, and Miki, the canines, and I lastly go to sleep, there may be one other bang. Within the final two weeks, Miki and the canines have been sleeping quite a bit through the day, and now I perceive why. It additionally explains the baggage below my eyes.
Kittens Are a Full-Time Job
And the pay sucks. Now fascinated with it, I’d have gladly paid somebody to socialize these two devils and return them to me in six months. However that’s not an choice. And as quickly as a number of hours cross with out Minnie climbing on storage cabinets, and entering into each doable cardboard field, whereas not with the ability to come again down on her personal, or making an attempt to chew on my cell charging cable, or Nara pulling down my washing, working round doing zoomies, spilling water from the canine’s water bowls, I begin to assume, possibly they’re getting higher. Solely to understand they’re asleep and that is the rationale for his or her short-term goodness. And they’re so cute once they sleep, they’re unimaginable to not love.
Tip Toeing Across the Home
I’ve began strolling on tiptoes, to keep away from waking the cats, and sleeping once they sleep. Even the canines are wagging their tails much less, to not appeal to their consideration. In all honesty, we’re being terrorized by these two kittens. And also you’d assume they don’t have any toys, no scratch posts, no cabinets or perches, no home windows to look at the skin. Properly, they do, ungrateful little buggers. And so they have me as their private assistant, enjoying with one or the opposite, or each on the identical time, in an effort to get them to love one another extra, or at the least to not kill one another. Will this kittenhood ever finish?
This text is part of Dr. Maja and Miki’s sequence.