Living in a multi-cat household, one of the questions I get asked most frequently, is how do they all get along so well? That’s a fair question, especially when you consider in the past couple of years I have introduced two new feline rescues into a social dynamic that was functioning like a well stacked house of cards – the slightest wrong move and the whole thing could come tumbling down with disastrous results. Read more

Hey! Rolz, Peanut, and Mia here! If you don’t mind, could we please have your attention?

Yes, you heard us…If you don’t mind, could we please have your attention and direct your eyes to our blog post?! Thanks! Now please don’t think that we’re complaining, well, actually we are, but we don’t want you to think we’re being overly catty… Anyhow, we kind of have a bone to pick with everyone. Well, not everyone, but human Mom at the very least. I mean, we get it…Yeah… we have a new kitten in the house and she is cute. But seriously, enough is enough Mom. Almost every post since she came to live with us is Jazmine, Jazmine, Jazmine. What is this? The Brady Bunch? She gets to be Marsha and the rest of us are Jan…

We’re putting our paws down and asking for it to stop! Enough of Jazmine and enough of Jazmine with her perfect boyfriend, Kizmet. We are on picture overload of that cute crew and their touching love story… What about us? When we were younger, we were cute too! Just look at that picture of us in the window when we were about 2 months old – we were freakin’ adorable! And that’s not all – we’re hijacking the blog today to show you that not only were we cute as kittens, but we have grown up to be stunning cats! Take a look for yourself and please click the photos to make us bigger if you want…which we highly recommend, because we really are beautiful in our full glory! Read more

Most of you that follow my blog know that it was started as a direct result of my writing The Chronicles of Zee & Zoey – A Journey of the Extraordinarily Ordinary, a book about the tumultuous love story of Zee and Zoey. While my writing the book was not initially planned, getting Zee and Zoey very much was. Both cats came from stable homes and I knew their background and history from the minute they were born. Zee was given as a gift from me to Dan and a couple of years after that, we got Zoey because the timing was right.  Zee was going through a very naughty stage in his life and was misdirecting his excessive energy with Mr. Jazz who was with us at the time, as well as with Harley – neither of whom appreciated it. I had always wanted a Bengal kitten and because they were known for being extremely playful and athletic, it seemed the perfect match and solution.  Read more

Editor’s Note: Last week I left you with Jazmine hypnotizing the boys of the household by her youth and beauty and the girls (sans Harley) seething with jealousy. She still had not left the safe confines of her room and was with us for 6 days at this point. We had been leaving her door open more frequently, hoping to get her comfortable with the possibility of venturing down the hallway, and then eventually out to the rest of the house in the next week or so. In today’s episode of Jazmine’s saga, we pick up where we left off… with the sighting of an unidentified orange blur…

What the heck is that orange blur in the kitchen?

Preparing dinner in our kitchen for our multi-cat household is a nightly ritual of organized chaos to say the very least. We have a varied regiment of dietary needs to cater to for our seven adult cats and now we have the addition of a kitten that also has special eating needs. Until the food dishes hit the floor, all of us are intently focused on what we are doing. Dan and I with making sure each cat gets what they are supposed to eat in each of their bowls and the cats with their important roles of jumping on and off the counter, meowing, and winding in and out of our legs to remind us to hurry up, lest they might perish from starvation within the next minute or two…

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“Hi Everybody,” says Jazmine. “Welcome to my world!”

As you know from last Saturday’s post, we brought Jazmine home from the Global Pet Expo with the intention of keeping her in sequester in the guest room for at least a week or two before she would be introduced to the rest of the feline gang. Kizmet, of course, barged into her room within the first hour of her stay and changed our plans significantly. As mentioned, the instant he met her, he employed himself her indentured guardian and literally would not let Dan or I walk into her room without following us in. When we would physically remove him from the room and close the door, he just figured out how to open it on his own and would go back in, lest he not be by her side for a single second. Read more