Kitty kats update :-)

It's been a while since i have written here, as i am dedicated to my diet blog, but the boys are growing so much and will be a year old this month. Time to celebrate...along with musings about what on earth were we doing getting two kittens again, ha ha?
Yesterday i checked out a picture of Jonesy on my sideboard. I have his picture on my mobile phone too, as i never ever want to forget him. Time does heal and days go by where i just have a fleeting thought about him, but yesterday i missed the closeness we had. The bond between a cat and his human is very individual. My relationship with all my other cats have been different and certainly not so close, although i am hoping Dylan and i may be like that one day. Relationships change and strengthen over time and when Jonesy died i think ours was at our peak. I can look back on that time with very great pleasure mingled with sadness. he was such a character and even now my neighbour will talk about him in fond tones :-)

So anyway...what are the cats up to right now. well old girlie Ripley (19 this year) is asleep on the arm of my soda with her head in her paws. She is a little scraggly these days and meows constantly. Being deaf she cant hear herself......but we most certainly can!! She doesn't run about as much as she used to although she still has some mad moments. Her favorite hobby seems to be chewing grass and hacking it up again over the sun lounge carpet. Yuk.
The boys are, as ever, young active ginger toms and i do find them amusing! As the year has passed they have developed their own individual traits and they are very different. I do call them brothers as they were born within a week or so of each other and from 7 weeks have been together. The relationship between Dylan and Ripley has mellowed and he doesn't annoy her quite so much now. Maybe the odd bap with his paw on her head as he walks past but not so often now! Currently Chester is glued to our lounge window. He realised yesterday that a pair of blackbirds are nesting in the hedge around a foot from the house and he is fascinated. As i type this he is avidly watching the hedge, ears flickering, body ridged and head darting around as the birds fly in and out. He settled down on the arm of the sofa in the window bay where he can see them after breakfast an hour ago and has not moved since! He may be there some time? Dylan is curled up on a chair in our sun lounge. Normally he likes to hide behind the sofa, or under a cushion....and he has always done this....but the sun lounge chair is one of his few 'open space' places.He has already pulled the cushion and blanket off and chucked them on the floor and now he is resting on top of a little flat cushion! They all spend a lot of time together but also a fair amount of time doing their own things. Chester will walk about with my dressing gown cord, or a stick from my plants, like a dog with a bone. He latches on with his teeth and will not let go!! Dylan will scratch anything and everything, while looking at you, in spite of a multitude of scratch posts being around the house! Grrrrrr. Chester will sit on my lap in the mornings for around an hour, Dylan never does. But Dylan will sprawl at my feet in bed and lay there for hours. They are needy in their own ways.....Chester needs food and it doesn't matter if he has been fed two minutes before. You open any cupboard door in the kitchen and he is there, even racing from upstairs. Dylan wil come and purr and slide all around you from time to time when you are sitting down, as if to reassure himself you are still there. Chester has always been vocal but suddenly the last week Dylan has found his voice. We are getting howls and meows like i have never heard before. Maybe it is the fact that we are responding to both of them by answering when they call, so they do it more now? Anyway they are lovely and although they are not Jonesy replacements they have gone a long way to healing my pain at losing him. maybe one day i will write a book 'A Tail of Ginger Cats'? That is not to say, by the way, that i haven't adored all my cats. ginger or otherwise, but the gingers i have had all seem to have been very strong personalities.......