So I was thinking, you’ve all seen plenty of photos of the three of us as we are now, but you’ve not seen any photos of when we were kittens! Poor you! It’s a real shame as I was a bloody cute kitten, so I figured I’d start this small mini-series, When I Was Small.
So, here I am, when I was small. Now, I betcha thinking I haven’t changed much at all, and you’d be right. But look how little I am! Compare my size to that of the mobile phone taking the picture – I was dinky! Tiny Demon! Also, look how my ears are way too big for my head! Bless me, I was adorable. I was also a bit cross-eyed when I was a babe, and believe me, I was bloody glad to grow out of that and into the handsome Demon I am today.
I KNOW. Where have I been? I know the whole interwebnet has been asking themselves where I am and sending emails to check I’m okay. Thanks both of you everyone!
It’s relatively quiet at Three Cats Towers at the moment. I’ve been enjoying some time outside singing with the sparrows, which leads to Paul trying to get me to say “I am a cat and a demon, not a sparrow” but I do NOT do it. Why can’t I be a sparrow? I so enjoy singing with them and I know they like my company, cos when I go outside to join in their chorus, all of them rush out of the tree REALLY fast to tell their friends I’ve arrived!
That aside, nowt to report. It’s been at least a week since a new toy was bought, but I’m told the humans are going shopping this very noon, so I’m expecting a big, fat apology toy. I’ve also been peeing on the bed quite a bit recently, and the FUSS they make over it, it’s really quite embarrassing for them. Austin was all like “hey, Donncha, why do you pee on the bed?” and I just gave him an uber cool look and said, “cos I can.”
Actually, most of the time I can’t, but it sounded cool. I can’t because whenever I within a three foot radius of the humans big bed, I’m being watched by either one or both of them. And if I so much as think about peeing, they’re all over me and throwing me in the bathroom, while yelling the always-boring “DON-A-CHAAAA” which, FYI, so doesn’t bother me anymore. And it’s not fair, cos sometimes I just wanna sit on the bed, not pee on it, but it’s like they don’t trust me no more or something.
Humans = weird.
Also, I totally chased Austin for an hour this morning – hee! In the end he got fed up of me and smacked me really hard on the nose, but I know – and he knows, deep down – who really won this morning’s confrontation: ME!
First up dudes is for me to say how totally HAPPY I am about my new toy, a Tail Tickler. I just thought I’d post up this photo so you can see how much I love it. That’s me, KILLING it. See how it’s crying out for help? It is one dead Tail Tickler. Donncha vs. Crocodile and I totally won.
Also, ALSO, our goodies arrived! A full week after they were ordered! But, I forgive ‘em, because we finally got that new bed that Toni has been talking about for the last six years. NEW BED! And you know what? It totally rocks. It’s got really high side so you fell all safe and snug AND (and this is so the best thing ever!) it has a little pouch and inside that pouch is a thing you can MICROWAVE so the bed is all warm! How amazing is that? Pretty amazing, believe you me, especially when you consider it’s STILL winter. I love our my new bed, it rocks.
I was in it for ages, then I went to get a drink and Darcy done gone stole it off me, the cheeky little minxette sister! So later, when she was in the big orange bed and I was feeling a bit naughty (and okay, a bit high on cat nip) I launched myself at her and totally nearly pulled her head off! She was asleep so she didn’t even see me coming! SO FUNNY.
Actually, M&D didn’t seem to think it was that funny. They totally took Darcy’s side. Now I expect this from Paul, as for some reason he’s utterly gone on Darcy, but Toni is supposed to be totally gone on me but she was still doing the old “DON-A-CHA!” which, you know, is getting kinda old. Before I knew it, Paul had grabbed me and I was in the bathroom on a “time out”.
So I cried for Toni. Naturally. I know she can’t stand to hear my crying, so I gave it a good old yowl at maximum volume. And even though I HEARD her say, “I really don’t like hearing him cry!”, she did NOTHING about it. I was in there for about 12 hours. When I was finally released, I went over to her and snuggled against her and was extra affectionate so she felt really guilty, and SO SHE SHOULD. What is happening to the world if you can’t attack your own sister once in a while? She is my sister; that is what she is for.
I mean, I don’t even really “attack”. It’s always playful between us three. But Darcy made such a big deal of it and I ended up getting punished. And you know what? It’s just made me more likely to do it again to teach her a lesson and teach M&D that you can’t be imprisoning a Demon like me.
Still, I’ve still got all my new stuff, and my brief period of incarceration has taught me a valuable lesson: not to attack Darcy while she is in bed. While the humans can see. Easy.
I’ve shamelessly stolen the idea for this feature from both Amber and Keris, both of whom I’m very thankful to for introducing me to the idea, and beings as we have so many photos of the cats, it seemed like a good feature to start.
First up is this photo of Donncha. Paul and I call it the “iconic” Donncha photo, because it’s just so beautiful. And the real brilliance is that it was a complete accident; he was sniffing around the camera (as Donncha loves the “light box”) and I accidentally hit the capture button and this is the result. Donncha is incredibly photogenic (and such a poser) and this is our favourite photo of him, taken when he was about a year old.
This is basically just a bunch of feathers and coloured plastic on a springy stick, but Good Lord has it gone down well. Donncha is absolutely entranced by it and has worn Paul out playing with it, chasing it around and trying to “kill” it. Even when a human isn’t dangling it, Donncha is still interested in it, playing and chasing it. He loves it.
The stick is more springy than you’d normally expect which makes things more interesting and varied for the cat. The feathers are well stuck on and have survived multiple maulings from Donncha, which is really saying something. Darcy has showed interest in it as well, and for £1.99, I couldn’t be happier. Five out of five.
We did try to capture Donncha playing with it, and we have got the below video. Unfortunately it’s very dark, though you can just about make out him throwing himself around after it. We’re delighted with the product and so is our Demon.
Yes! Tail teasers from Pet Planet (£1.99)! You put a bag of cat nip (cat nip! cat nip!) in their mouths and then… you unleash the Donncha Demon! We got two crocodiles, which was apparently a mistake as we’d only ordered one (note from Toni: I have checked and we also only paid for one, so happy times). And I? I totally killed them. I chased them around for hours and now they’re all weak and dead.
I was also high on this cat nip that was also bought, so I was having mega, MEGA fun. But seriously, those toys totally rule. And £1.99? Why, we could have one for every day of the week… (HINT, Toni, HINT).
Also, I think my sister has lost it a bit. She wrote about these toys earlier but she called them MICE. What the hell? They are very clearly crocodiles. It must be the nip, which it has to be said, seems to affect her twice as much as it does me and Austin. And it makes her VIOLENT. She attacks you for like, no reason, or smacks you for chasing her tail or something. Iss-ues.
And (why, this is a long post) Toni got some runes the other day and has been doing loads of “readings” with them. I listened in on one, where she asked these runes (which it must be said, aren’t very impressive. Lumps of rock, really) “will Paul and I have children?” and she pulled out the rune for Fertility – out of all the runes, she got that one! I don’t want any human children around here, thank you very much! I am Toni’s baby and that is how it will stay, mmk?
Also, she’s a wee bit pissed off with me because the feather quill she bought for doing her witch-stuff (so glad it isn’t the 1600s, cos Toni would be D-E-A-D)… well, that quill is kind of bent and ruffled at the end. And I do not know how that happened. Shocking, really.
Still, maybe the bed will arrive tomorrow? And if it doesn’t, Toni’s still got money left over on her Pet Planet vouchers, so there’ll be new stuff soon anyway! But I really want that bed. Bah to Pet Supermarket.
My idiot brother was posting yesterday about the lack of goodies, so he was really happy today when Daddy stumbled downstairs and re-appeared with a box in his hands. “Awesome, a box!” he bellowed, “That’s a toy AND a snack!” So Mummy opened the new box and produced some MICE! Now, I’ve been hoping for some of those since a local cat told me how much nummier they are than flies and spiders. So I have to say I was disappointed when it turned out they were just TOY mice.
I soon cheered up when Mummy proceeded to fill the toy mice with catnip and put them on the floor. I had an enjoyable 15 minutes playing with them and then I went to my sofa for a nap. When I woke up Mummy and Daddy were talking about how “mad” I get when I’ve had catnip. They’re so silly, talking about me being mad when there was a load of food on the floor. I think Donncha must have knocked it over, and he even managed to get some in my fur. I don’t even know how he did that. As I say, I was asleep and I had the nummiest dream where I was riding a dragon round the flat, and food kept flying all round me.
Anyway, a big furry monkey wants to use the computer now so I think I’ll go for another nap. Bye-bye!
FINALLY. M&D get off their arses and actually go shopping. When Toni got back, I was all, “got anything for me?” and throwing myself at her legs, then she said: “there’s lots of nummies for you guys!”
Which I didn’t really like, ‘cos that implies that it ain’t just stuff for me, but that I’ve gotta share it with my stupid sister and Austin. But even so, what a haul! We’ve got:
Whiskas dry cat food, tuna flavour (good call on the flavour there)
Whiskas WET cat food! And we never get wet cat food! I haven’t had any yet but I’ve seen it and we totally have it here to be had at some point!
A NEW TOY! And it’s the coolest toy ever. It’s a scrunchy base (fantabulous for, erm, making scrunching noises) and then sticking out of the top is a whirly-gig type thing with three dangling toys attached. I’m actually still too full from shovelling all that Whiskas dry food into my mouth so I haven’t played with it yet, but Darcy has and I’m assured it rocks. (Note from Toni: Also, it was only £2! And it’s one of the best toys I’ve seen for ages).
Cat Nip drops. Haven’t been allowed these yet, but when I am, I’m gonna go mad.
Milk drops. Apparently these treats are specifically for Austin, which is So Not Fair as he also got…
A bottle of cat milk. Now, I like cat milk, but not as much as he does, so the parents have only bought one bottle and have promised it to Austin.
A huge blue feather boa thing that looks like it will shred up really nicely.
Whiskas kitbit treats.
(Please notice how much Whiskas stuff we have, someone at Whiskas. Send us free stuff!)
So yeah, right now, I’m really impressed with the humans. AND, I’ve been told by a reliable source (Toni) that there’s a new BED coming in the post as well as some new toys (and also, some flea treatment, but I’m not so excited about that to be honest).
I love the humans, you know. Especially now it seems The Diet is OVER…
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Three Cats In A Flat is a blog about all things cat related, with updates from Darcy, Donncha and Austin (our resident cats) and the humans that keep them in the style to which they've become accustomed.
So I was thinking, you’ve all seen plenty of photos of the three of us as we are now, but you’ve not seen any photos of when we were kittens! Poor you! It’s a real shame as I was a bloody cute kitten, so I figured I’d start this small mini-series, When I Was Small.
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First up dudes is for me to say how totally HAPPY I am about my new toy, 
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I’ve shamelessly stolen the idea for this feature from both 
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