Kittens Redux

I promise this won't just be a blog about kittens, though I assume that traffic would likely increase if I did that...

Anyway, they have gradually started getting more comfortable in the house.  They occasionally go up to the 2nd floor on their own, though more often I have to bring the orange one (Toby) up and leave him there.  However, they both came up and camped under the bed for a while.  As the mouse seems to be there some of the time, this is promising.

They often nap a lot in the kitchen, though they are starting to spend more time with me (again primarily Toby) in the living room.  I bought a scratching pad, but they are ignoring that in favour of the couch(!) so I have ordered a scratching post, which hopefully will help with that.

While the silver cat is still not particularly approachable, once in a while when it is in a mellow mood, it will let me pet it.  This gives me some hope that with time, it will grow to have some attachment to us (or to me at least).

I'm still getting used to the new types of litter and how often it needs to be cleaned up, esp. with 2 kittens.  But generally things are going pretty well with them.

Last night was particularly amusing as they kept looking at what was on the tv, trying to decide whether to try to catch the moving hands.  While I don't really want to spray them that close to the tv, I also have to train them to just ignore it.  Fortunately, I don't actually watch tv that much downstairs, though there are a lot of movies I still plan on watching.  Last night I was watching Edward Yang's Mahjong, which was entertaining, though I liked A Confucian Confusion more.

The breaking news is that only 4 days in, they caught the mouse!  I let Toby play with it for a while, though then he tried to eat it, so I had to take it away.  (It was already dead, but still not easy.)  Unfortunately, within a night we realized there is still one more mouse.  Between the kittens and some glue traps and poison traps, we will eventually get it, but it is still frustrating.  Really hoping it is the last one for now, and we don't have a family of mice!  The overarching hope is that the presence of cats (and their smells, etc.) will keep other mice from setting up shop in the house.  

Fingers crossed!