Despite only having relatively few things up, it took a day or so to get sorted out. The new wall mounted cat tree arrived, and DH spent half a day building that and putting it up. Lewis was fascinated, and wtached carefully as DH put it up. It's big. It's so heavy, it has to be screwed to the wall in several places, and that's what took the time. That and the fact that there were some missing bits, and DH had to make them.
All 3 cats ignored the new feature, which surprised me as the kittens are usually into everything.
Lewis did decide to try out the Cat Cave this afternoon, so hopefully they will all try using it.
Their current favourite plaything is a blue Ikea bag, which I used to bring logs in from outside and discarded on the kitchen floor. It's provided them with hours of endless fun as they use it as a hiding place, a bed, camouflage, a sled, and something which makes a lovely crinkly rustling noise.
More progress with Izzy today. She nuzzled Shelby, no aggression at all. Later, she was eating from her bowl (which is microchip activated), and she let Shelby muscle in and eat beside her! We were amazed! We had to remove Shelby though, as we're trying to get the kittens on to a raw food diet, and Izzy was eating Felix. (We have tried several times over the years to get Izzy on to raw, but she steadfastly refuses to eat anything that has even a pinch of raw food mixed in. Wash happily converted to 100% raw after just one meal. At the time Nutriment only did cat raw in 500g frozen blocks so nuch was wasted. We gave up in the end).
The kittens food transition is going well, and the Nutriment (raw food) proportion of each meal is now just over 50%. They have Views on which variety of Nutriment they will eat and which they won't ("No thanks" to the Venison, " F**k off" to the Salmon (honestly, you'd think I'd put poison down), "If I must " to the Rabbit, "Not sure about this" to the beef, and "nom nom" to the chicken). It also matters what we mix it withh. Chicken Lily's is most acceptable. Lewis will also eat Lily's Lamb Casserole. No one will eat the Hunters HotPot. I'm re-trying the Poultry Pie and the fishy one over the next few days. The local cat charity lady will be pleased to get the unopened rejected packets.
They continue to be amazingly sociable little cats.
