The Slinky Toy

Sasha and I discovered a great new toy today. The typist says she's had one of these since she was a little kid and loved to play with it on the stairs. My question was so if she's known about it for ages - what took her so long to share it with us? Above are some pictures of Sasha checking it out.

Some important news - Anya and I (Nökö ) have perfectly normal hearts. So we are cleared for having more babies!!!!

Politely Decline

Hi
If you're wondering why I'm looking a little tired we just got back from Spokane last night. So to all you cats out there - if anyone asks you to go to Spokane - politely decline. Speaking from experience - going to Spokane which sounds like it could be fun - actually just means far, far, far too much time in to many small spaces. Four to five hours in my carrier during the road trip, then the hotel said - I had to stay in the bathroom when the typist and the spouse were out for dinner and a movie. What fun is that? Can you believe at US customs they confiscated my dry cat food? Then all the typist could find was some canned food that both Anya and I had the good sense to refuse to eat. The next day Anya and I spent the morning at Inland Empire Imaging - nice people but again they wanted me to sit still for 45 mins while they looked at my heart. It was almost a relief to get back in the car for the five hour trip home.
Boy am I glad to be back!

The Vagaries of March Weather

Hard to believe that just yesterday we were basking in the warm March sunshine. Today it warmed up and its been sleeting and snowing all day long - grey, grey, grey and grey. The typist is freting about the weather because tomorrow we are going on a road trip to Spokane to get an echocardiogram. I'm not sure what that is but I'll fill you in when I get back. Wish us blue skies and safe travels.
Nökö

The fling-ama-string

Hi!
Nökö here.
There is still a lot of commotion in our household. The people doing the plaster and their dogs left on Monday and now the humans are laying the floor upstairs. We've been confined to the cat room during the day while all the work is going on. I think the typist is feeling badly because a new toy arrived.
Here are some pictures of the gang checking out the Fling-ama-String.

Anya was the first to check it out but....



Danny (Prekrasne Daniela) was the first to touch it. I tried to take it right off the doorknob
so the game kinda of stopped then. Sometimes the typist has no sense of humor.....

Bye for now

A New Tower

Greetings from Sunshine Bay - although its anything but sunny today. It's raining so it wasn't hard to convince the typist to update things.

The excitement yesterday was a "new" to us - cat tower.

A lovely Ragdoll named Whisper decided she so many windows and other perches to sit on in her new home that she longer needed this perch. We, of course, are ecstatic with the new tower and you see the crew checking it out. We Sibs like to be in the highest spot possible. More towers mean more of us get to be surveying the world from up high. You can see that Danny (Prekrasne Daniela), although low cat on the totem pole, always finds the toy first. You'll also notice that Anya and her daughter rule the roost. We guys don't have much of a chance!

Lucky there are lots of other towers and perches for the definitely second-in-command males of the household.

Bye for now

Ali & Sasha Six Months Old

Nökö here! We like any reason to celebrate and since Ali & Sasha are officially 6 months old we thought we honor them in today's post.

Not to be a boastful dad - well, maybe just a little boastful- these kitten/teenager cats are something special. They seem to have inherited the best of me (Nökö) and their mother Anya.
Here some photos to show you what I mean.
They are very athletic - both of them excel at clicker training and can't wait to start the agility circuit. Here's Sasha showing off some of his athletic prowess. He's a heavy boned solid guy. Last week he weighed 9.6 lbs (4.4 kg).
Ali is our sultry beauty. She has my classic coloring - and her mother's lovely eyes. She's a heavy boned solid girl (kinda of like me - except for the girl part). She weighed 8 lbs (3.6kg) last week. Here's a closeup! The best part is that even though they are teenagers they are incredibly even tempered and happy cats. They purr all the time and love their people with a passion. They are very creative and are forever finding new games to amuse themselves and their humans.

So wishing Sasha, Ali and our readers all the best on this their six month birthday!

Weighty Issues

Hi all Nökö here!
My breeder, Merja, recently posted (http://siperiankissa.blogspot.com/) some pictures of her N litter being weighed. Those pictures reminded the typist and I of some "weighty" pictures of me back when I reached 4 kg. I was still living in Finland when these pictures were taken (Nov 07) but the typist thought I was a pretty laid back and goofy guy and could hardly wait to bring me home.
What do you think?

I no longer fit the bowl or the scale - this is what it takes to weigh me these days-----
Bye for now
Nökö