Growing up!!

When we have our human babies we wait for them to grow up. We watch that first step, we wait til they sleep thru the night. We really hate to miss any of their "firsts". If we miss it, we may feel cheated or might even feel like we didn't pay enough attention.

Today I feel cheated. I have been working with mouse for a few days on litter training, its been a struggle and more a battle than litter training a kitten is expected to be, we expect that it will be instinct and most of the time it is. But sometimes, it becomes a bigger job than we had planned on. Mouse has some very strongly sensitive feet, he isn't impresses with any texture other than soft and even. he doesn't like anything that his feet might sink into even just a little bit. He has always been like this, he is very tactile in his arms he likes to touch and grab. Litter just I guess feels yucky and not a safe surface.

I woke up this morning to find that even though the box was right there, he soaked his bed, not sure how he can hold so much urine at his size but man he flooded it again. So this time, I moved his box a bit closer (right to the edge of his bed) and blocked off the rest of his bin. Low and behold, he started using his box. He doesn't want to be dirty obvioulsy since he is not messing his bed when the box is close enough. I am hoping to get him used to the texture. Up until about an hr ago I still had to put him in the box until he went....I looked in and holy crap...there is a poopy and a pee in the box, totally unassisted and prompted. I missed it :( I am disappointed that Missed it but am thrilled that he is finally getting the idea or seems too anyway. When he is succesfull on a constant basis I will move the box so he once again has more room. I hope in that time he learns that the texture is safe and not gonna jump up and bite him or swallow him whole!!

We moved hope into Jilly's room full time yesterday. Kitten proofing a room of an 8 year old is tough. She has so much stuff legos, clothes and paper stashed, it took a good 2 hrs to make it safe enough. we also put all her china dolls and such away fro now as Hope has a habit of jumping on the dresser and knocking things over etc etc. This failed, what we didn't think she could reach, she can jump to. SO gonna have to figure something out about miss Hope.

Mouse's weight today was 343g an increase of 14g