Update!

It's been a while since my last update and a lot has happened since so I thought I'd let you all know what's been happening!

We've now caught both the mum and dad aswell as the kittens which is great news. We only caught the Dad on Tuesday night, but we caught mum a few nights before. They have both gone to a sanctuary in North Wales and will be rehomed together which is nice :)

The kittens are coming on fantastically.. Jack, who was the feisty temperemental one now loves nothing more than a good stroke. He purrs away and pushes his head against your hand and likes to roll onto his back so you can stroke his belly! We've not yet taken him out of the cage though as before we stroked him, when we tried to take him out to clean the cage he went nuts and was screaming and stuff so I don't know how he's going to react if we do it again. He doesn't seem to mind being scruffed too much but I don't think he'll be like Ruby who's still very timid and just goes asleep on your knee. He seems to want to play and interact more, but I'm worried he'll be out of his comfort zone if we take him out of the cage and go mad again.

We'll have to take him out soon though, it'll probably be this weekend when we've got lots of time in case he DOES run off! Maybe he'll be different this time though and snuggle up like Ruby does, guess we'll just have to see!

We put Ruby on the floor for the first time on Sunday - that was an interesting experience!

She was fine, she enjoyed being able to wander about freely and was jumping from chair to chair and playing with her toys. The only thing is, until you're actually holding her, she doesn't like being stroked or anything so getting her back in the cage was a bit of a struggle! We were trying to lure her towards us with food, which seemed to be working but the second she got too close she bolted and hid under the sofa. I tried scruffing her and she hissed at me and got free so then she wouldn't budge from behind the sofa for ages!

Eventually, we managed to get her as she'd climbed on top of their cage.

One thing we're learning at the moment is that it's important to re-assure them if they're scared otherwise they'll just continue to associate us as something to be scared of. Ruby didn't like being caught, but once I'd sat down with her she soon snuggled up and went to sleep again. Similarly, when we're putting food in for them, we make sure we give them a little stroke to show them there's nothing to fear.

It's a great experience though, really rewarding :) Hopefully it'll only be a few more weeks before they're running about freely!

They're getting very clever though, when we open their cage to stroke them, they seem to be learning that its an exit and eyeing it constantly so we'll have to be really careful!

Their personalities are starting to come through aswell now. Ruby is mental - she chases her toys around the cage whether we're playing with them or not. We'll be sat in the bedroom and hear her darting about the cage chasing one of the little balls with the bells in the middle. Jack, on the other hand seems quite laid-back, he just likes to watch her and occasionally join in batting his paw around. They've started play fighting too. Ruby chases Jack's tail, and sometimes her own. She seemed really confused the other day when they were playing together. She noticed Jack's ears and was trying to pat them down so they were flat against his head and looked surprised when they popped back up when she moved her paw away haha. Poor Jack just lay there while she did it, so he's quite tolerable!

Okay, that's enough waffling for now, I'm turning into crazy cat lady!

xxx