In my house, there is an ongoing war between kittens and boundaries. I don't let my foster kittens run free in the house because:
- There are just way too many places for a kitten to hide,
- It's hard enough to clean/disinfect one room when it turns out a kitten has !surprise! ringworm,
- It's hard enough to clean/disinfect one room in general,
- I don't want to worry about my fosters darting outside,
- When I have multiple groups of kittens, I don't want them to swap diseases,
- There is stuff in my house I don't want kittens messing with.
This means that I am constant climbing over barriers and blocking kittens who are trying to escape. Getting around in my house is a challenge.
I don't have many breakable items — everything fragile already been broken — but I do have a few things, including the audiobook recording equipment...
... which is in my office closet.
I have five kittens running around in my office right now. Yesterday, Cheese Puff figured out that pushing on the closet doors swings them enough that a kitten can get through the gap. (There's supposed to be a piece of hardware on the floor that keeps the doors from swinging in/out, but I lost it when I refinished the floors a couple decades ago.)
So now we are locked in battle over the closet. See Exhibit A:
Yeah, the kittens spent most of today trying to break into the closet.
Send reinforcements.
Good News
Pepper, the kitten I took back to the shelter yesterday, disappeared from the website this afternoon, which means he has already been adopted. I'm not surprised, since he was gorgeous and very sweet.
Obligatory Kitten Picture
Cool Ranch again. He likes to nap.
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