some observations

So we moved 4 of the bigger boys into Jillian's room yesterday and the 4 smaller ones (2 boys and 2 girls) into the room where the big boys were. We have discovered that the 4 boys are just like human boys, full of energy and into trouble ALL.THE.TIME. the 4 wee ones pretty much eat and sleep mostly still, they do get up and play for a spell but than konk out again. Dory makes me laugh, she has the amazing ability to fall sleep in an instant, sitting up, laying down, playing, whatever. Its like she has that sleeping disease narcolepsy, she just goes to sleep. They no longer sleep in that baby huddle but now spread out to get as much free space as they can. They also no longer snuggle up to the stuffed animal they have. Well squirt does but mostly it's because he likes to suckles its butt, better a toys butt than another kittens.

We let them have run of the house today a few times, just to see how they would react. The first time, they were a little scared and kinda just skulked around, peering behind corners and ducking under the couch when they felt the need. The 2nd time, they trashed the living room...they found toys out of anything else that wasn't intended for a toy, extension cord, corner of the couch and they decided that the parrots molted feathers were the best toy of all, I just vacummed and I did a good job so I have no idea where they found these feathers, but we spent about 6 mins picking feathers out of everyones mouth.

I am also considering keeping one of the kittens until she gets adopted. Echo doesn't need to bother the kittens, they bother him but he just watches them and walks away, when they get close he takes off to find my shoulder or the back of the computer chair. He was my biggest fear when I started doing this...not anymore. I think he is probbaly not going to bother them, even when Hope would sneak up top of his cage, he never attempted to bite, he just sat there and screamed his head off until I moved the cat. Hope didn't hurt him, just scared him. I am teaching him to say things like "here kitty kitty" "kitty get down" etc etc, I find with him the more he can express himself the better off he deals with things. Rubys' barking drives him crazy and he tells her so "Ruby, Ruby shut up" Ruby, knock it off" lol he makes me laugh as well.

So I am thinking about it, but we'll see, my issue is the longer they are here, the harder it is to let them go for both Jilly and me. But not having kittens over the winder doesn't make either of us happy. So we'll see what I decide and what happens with that. Not even sure if it would fly with the rescue because I do have Echo.