It's an Exciting World

I’ve come to the conclusion that Archer either doesn’t want to do it, or isn’t smart enough for toilet training.  Lana is very smart and even after we took the insert out of the toilet she has gotten up on it and started to use it.  She might even use it regularly if we can catch her doing it and reward the behavior.  Archer was at the point where he wouldn’t use a full insert that was clean litter.  That was a bad kitty and bad sign.

Thursday morning I took the kitties to the vet and got some bad news.  The kitties have fleas, Archer is getting badly overweight, and Lana has acne.  I ordered all the things I need to take care of these ailments and have taken large steps to work with most of them.  The iffiest part is whether or not the fleas have reproduced enough to cause a big issue at my house.  I don’t think so as the kitties didn’t have that many.  We are doing a very thorough cleaning and keeping the kitties on some medication.  Lana’s chin has the acne and it looked pretty bad, but once we cleaned it up it didn’t look too bad.  She has a decently bad case of it, but should clear up in a few weeks as long as we keep cleaning it.  I’m feeding the cats less, and they should be at a good weight in a couple months.  Archer was over 10lbs.  Lana is a much better 7.5 lbs.  Last week we also tried to take them to the baylands and have them walk around.  They didn’t care for it since the ground was wet and it was cold.  They climbed up on our shoulders, poor kitties.

It has been a while since I’ve posted pictures of the kitties, so here are some cute ones.  Lana is up to 7.2 lbs and Archer is getting a little fat at 10.4 lbs.  I am going to start metering their food intake.

My parents got to try out the Beam+ and we played with the kitties and the Beam+.  It was a lot of fun, and they really liked driving it around.  There were a few minor kinks, but they were only really noticeable if you were looking for them.  With my mom being as unfamiliar with technology as she is I was impressed that she was able to get it up and running.  It speaks volumes for the process that they made for getting people into using the Beam+.

Lana is a hilarious cat and was attacking her own tail today.  She got it pretty good too.

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I walked the kitties by myself today, and it went ok.  The dogs were in the back yards, so when they started barking, Archer and Lana ran off.  They chose to run in opposite directions and made it impossible for me to get them both.  I let Archer run back inside and then guided Lana back in.  It wasn’t ideal, but they did ok.

Steph and I took Archer and Lana for a walk together today.  They did well until Lana decided she wanted to squeeze through a small gap between the fences.  Eventually she decided to come back through, but it was a tense minute while she tried to get off the harness and away.