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Upstairs, Downstairs

Monday
9/22/2014

Our friend Holly from the west coast was visiting us over the weekend, which is why we didn’t post an entry yesterday. The 50K villa was and is our guest room, so we had to do a little reconfiguring. We closed our staff cats out of the 50K bunkhouse and playground (aka master bath and bedroom), transferred the Angels and all the kitten stuff upstairs, cleaned the villa, and converted the futon into a bed.

The Angels wasted no exploring their spacious new domain, quickly realizing they could use the bed as a springboard to the window-sill benches.

They also loved the feel and traction of wall-to-wall carpeting.

Martha took a dozen action shots, but they were all unusable due to “fur blur”. She fared better shooting motionless Angels.

On Sunday morning we headed out for a long rail-trail walk with the staff canines.

While I took Holly to the airport, Martha restored the villa to 50K mode and shuttled the kittens back downstairs.

Where the fun and games resumed. We introduced the stringball a few days ago, and it was a big hit with the Angels.

Ursula quickly mastered airborn maneuvers. Hope learned how to grab the ball with her front claws and dance around with it on her hind legs.

As today’s weights show, last week’s issues with diarrhea and weight loss are a fading memory. The sneeziness that popped up on Friday seems to have disappeared as well.

Now that Ariel is closing in on our 2.5-lb target and her sisters have reached it, we need to start letting the Angels strut their stuff for more potential adopters. They shouldn’t have to worry about being out-cuted at adoption events!

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