January 18th, 2024

Hey, it's the Kittyboys, Brysco and Wyatt!  I think it's time for an update.  On Saturday we will have had them for 3 months!   Which means they are almost 9 months old.  Time flies.   Boy oh boy have they changed our lives in that time.  And all for the better :)

The first thing you may notice here, other than how much they've grown, is that neither of them is wearing a collar.  (sigh)  Wyatt always hated his collar with a passion and a good portion of his day, every day, was dedicated to finding out how to remove it.  Once that puzzle was solved, his collar was off more than it was on.  Initially it was a once in a while thing. Then maybe a once a week happening.  And suddenly it was about every 30 minutes.  Dang.   Eventually we gave up.   The sole reason we put collars on them to begin with was to tell them apart!  We decided that as long as Brysco still had his collar on, we would know which cat was which.  Cat with collar -  Brysco!  Cat without collar - Wyatt!   Easy peasy.  I did feel a little guilty that Brysco was stuck still wearing his - simply for our convenience of telling them apart .  Never fear.  In short order, Wyatt taught Brysco how to take his off and then...bam.  Neither cat was wearing a collar.  DoubleDang.

Then Tim and I realized how lazy we were being. I mean parents of identical human twins always figure it out, right?  So we have made a concentrated effort to find the subtle differences between them and now I believe that 90% of the time we are correct.  In any case, they answer to their names and we can rely on that if necessary.

This post is kind of a day in the life thing.  How do the kittyboys spend their days? (just in case you wondered)

Being cats of course, much of their days is dedicated to sleep.  Usually brief little aptly named catnaps.  They snooze in their actual cute little beds of course, sometimes together, sometimes separately, but they also nap in the kitty trees, on the sofa, our bed and in any sunny spot they find on the floor:

But when they are awake, it's all about playplayplay!  They play with each other naturally and that often looks more like a wrestling match and it's impossible to get a good picture!  But another favourite game of theirs is the jumpscare where one of them hides behind something and they wait for either their brother, or some unsuspecting human to come along and then they pounce!    They favour  a butterfly toy, mousies, anything with catnip in it, one particular wool ball that they are slowly shredding, anything with feathers which very soon has no feathers at all and little toy springs which get batted all over the house and under things.  Once every week the kittyboys and I, armed with a flashlight and my monopod fully extended, go around the house, fishing errant toys out from under things. 

They also have a toy we call the CrazyBall.  It's a computerized (I suppose) ball that get's charged like a phone.  Once it's turned on and put on the floor, it takes off in crazy directions all over the house with both cats in hot pursuit.  It occupies them for a Very Long Time.  The bad part is that they do not put their toys away when they are done and then we have to find Crazyball.  Sometimes we don't discover it's whereabouts until the next day whereupon it gets recharged and ready for the next go 'round.

But their absolute favourite game now is what Tim has dubbed the GooberUber.  Tim was innocently moving one of their playtubes one day and Brysco jumped in! So, very gently, Tim dragged the tube across the room.  Brysco Loved it!  Wyatt follows behind and it's like a little parade through the house now.  When they see Tim coming, Brysco jumps into the tube in the hopes for a ride!  Silly kitty!

Most  cats are curious by nature and these boys are no different in that respect.  Brysco in particular wants to help and check out whatever we are doing.  He recently has become fascinated by running water.  I find him in the bathtub, the kitchen sink or watching the rain out a window.

Wyatt  is currently captivated by the ceiling fans and at least part of his day is dedicated to starring at the rotating blades and meowing at them.  It's a conversational sort of series of various mews and meows and chirps.  I would love to know what he is saying.

They insist upon laying on the ironing piles which is why I have it covered with a towel until I get around to actually doing the ironing

And anything new remains suspicious whether it is a package that has arrived, a new toy or me wearing a new pair of socks. Their policy is Approach with Caution!

So I guess that is pretty much how they spend their days.  Ah, the life of a cat!  That may be the plan for my next life should reincarnation turn out to be a real thing.

I will try very hard to restrain myself and not write about them again - at least for a little while

​Have a great weekend.  You know that the kittyboys will!