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Remember this from the begining of November?
Well this is the "kittens" now at a week under 8 months:-
That bed is 600mm x 480mm. Oscar or Ozzy as we call him most of the time is gigantic. His front paws with his toes spread out are the size of my wife's palm. One of my neighbours came over on Christmas eve with some pressies for the cats (we all get pressies for each other's cats every year around here) and Ozzy and Cleo came downstairs to see who came calling and to get extra strokes and her actual words when she saw Ozzy were "my god, he's massive"!! She has a pair of cats, brother and sister as well and I thought that her male cat, Hardy was big but she reckons Ozzy is already bigger than him. They both slept on our bed for the first time last night (kept the door closed previously as Abby hates them) and the wife and I were pushed to the edges of the bed with the two "kittens" taking up all of the middle by stretching out. Even Cleo is bigger than Abby now and Abby is 13 years old. I would love to know what type of cat the father is!!
Cleo chilling after Ozzy cooked her (his coat is like a thick duvet and really heats you up).
Ozzy after kicking Cleo off.
The kittens are now 6 months old and growing rapidly, especially Oscar. Both have had the snip and been micro chipped and are venturing outside. They took to the micro chip cat flap straight away which left me flabbergasted as it took my adult cats a while to get used to it. Oscar is massive, and at his last weigh in was 4.76kg which put's him almost two kilos heavier than his sister Cleo and 0.75kg heavier than Abby who is 13 years old. Whereas Cleo is gentle (mostly) and thinks about things before doing them, Oscar is like a tank and goes barging in without thinking. Their first venture into the garden was a prime example of this. We have a 6 foot high fence at the side of the house with horizontal planks with gaps between each one. Oscar ran at the fence and tried jumping at it which resulted in a epic fail and bouncing off. Cleo was watching him and then walked up to the fence and climbed it like a ladder. Oscar then copied her but now they were both on top of the fence walking towards each other from opposite ends and something had to give when they met in the middle. Oscar jumped off the fence onto what I presume he thought was going to support him and promptly vanished into the centre of my Spirea bush. The poor chap couldn't get out so he was screaming his head off until I assisted him. He hasn't done that since!! Out the front there is a cherry blossom tree and they can both easily climb it just by using their very sharp claws. Once up there they run around as if they lived in trees all the time, it's unreal. They were stalking a Robin the other day and it was leading them on a very merry dance going from bush to fence to shed to fence and back to bush. It was on the fence with them both at the bottom staring up at it when it flew off and Oscar started screaming at it as if to say it had a cheek for flying off and not jumping into his mouth. My neighbour was with me watching them play and we both looked at each other and she said that's a new one on her as she had never seen a cat do that before. The pair of them do some really funny and often strange things from time to time. Abby still doesn't like them although she is mellowing towards them a bit. She even sniffed them yesterday without growling!! Anyway here are some pictures although it's very difficult getting decent images outside as they don't stay still long enough.
A couple of days before we got them at 11 weeks old (Cleo on the left, Oscar on the right)
Now.
Well this is the "kittens" now at a week under 8 months:-
That bed is 600mm x 480mm. Oscar or Ozzy as we call him most of the time is gigantic. His front paws with his toes spread out are the size of my wife's palm. One of my neighbours came over on Christmas eve with some pressies for the cats (we all get pressies for each other's cats every year around here) and Ozzy and Cleo came downstairs to see who came calling and to get extra strokes and her actual words when she saw Ozzy were "my god, he's massive"!! She has a pair of cats, brother and sister as well and I thought that her male cat, Hardy was big but she reckons Ozzy is already bigger than him. They both slept on our bed for the first time last night (kept the door closed previously as Abby hates them) and the wife and I were pushed to the edges of the bed with the two "kittens" taking up all of the middle by stretching out. Even Cleo is bigger than Abby now and Abby is 13 years old. I would love to know what type of cat the father is!!
Cleo chilling after Ozzy cooked her (his coat is like a thick duvet and really heats you up).
Ozzy after kicking Cleo off.
