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    Judith
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    I looked at Dru this morning, as she was intentionally being as awkward and bizarre as it was possible for her to be, and I had a moment of revelation! This 6 1/2 month girl has gone all adolescent on me. She is moody, does not listen, is into risk-taking behaviour like you wouldn’t believe and she clearly thinks I’m stupid. I can see her thinking it! I vaguely googled ‘teenage kittens’ and it seems that it really is a thing. This is a relif to me because I just thought that I had ‘broken’ the sweet little bunny I used to have and that I was destined to spend the next couple of decades living with a megalomaniac control freak with self-destructive tendencies.
    Any advice? Or just funny stories to cheer me up while the Druster tears the place up? Seriously, if she could find a way to drink alcohol and go to raves she would…….

    #820633
    JerseyJoan
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    Hi Judith – oh Dru, you are clearly in your “kitten crazies”. When Leela was a baby she missed out on “normal” homelife, as we were having our home renovated. It was a miserable time for all of us, but we called her our distraction. When the house was safe enough to let her out of the large crate we had for her (she spent her days at my sister’s house, where she had her own room, but had to stay in the crate at night and when workers were around for her own safety) she would run around and when she discovered the stairs: “Hey guys, guys, guys, there’s a whole ‘nuther house here!”

    #820650
    Kittyzee
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    Well Judith, if only Dru could play with my teenage boy Willow, they could be young and stupid together. He is the trial of the household at the moment, yet so sweet, cuddly and loving when he wants to be. He is totally charming and an asshole at the same time….(sorry, if I offended anyone, but it’s true) 😼 I love him regardless…

    #820655
    Judith
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    You are both so right! She’s all ‘look at this! Look at this! See how I pounce! A feather! A spider! Oops!!’ And then she is the most aggravating, obnoxious little madam, sticking her nose in the air and being as ridiculously high-maintenance as she can manage. And then it’s all cuddles and purring. She exhausts me. She is like 5 cats, all at once……

    #820657
    ecbrown
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    LOL…very cute:). Our first two cats were adopted as teenagers (6 months old). Then the third was getting close (4 months). Fun times!

    #820662
    Moonshadow_NZ
    Moderator

    I love this post and am LOL here at the images you have all conjured up.
    Thinking back – way back to when HRH Shadz was about that age I can now see that she had her ‘teen’ stage but I never realised it. I should have as our own children were teens at that time too. Maybe I was just so overwhelmed by the human teens I never clicked to Shadz behaviour.

    #820677
    Judith
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    I am loving the thought of all the teen kits out there! It is 7:20am here and, so far, Dru has fallen into the shower, got shut into a bedroom and done a first class impression of a spinning top. She screamed for her food like she was a starved thing and then tasted it and walked off, returning only to bury the dish under some socks that were freshly washed nearby.
    During all this, I had to get some drops into her ears (that was funsises) and now she is washing her pretty little toes. Welcome to Friday:)

    #820682
    JerseyJoan
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    Baby Leela jumped into the toilet while I was cleaning it. She was only in for a split second, and not completely in before I grabbed her, but I was frantic trying to get all traces of cleaner off of her. (Keep in mind, Leela was the first kitten I had in 16 years, the Shaddo/Jiggs era lasted over 17 years, so some aspects of kitten care and their antics were new to me.)

    #820684
    Kittyzee
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    I can see Dru cleaning her toes! When my cats stick their back legs into the air with their toes all splayed out, we call them *starfish feet* because they look like a 5 pointed starfish! This is a great thread, it makes me realize that I am not alone. Just 15 minutes ago, I got Avery asleep in the swing, and then Willow started chasing and biting Leona as she growled and SCREAMED when he got her down and was biting her. What part of STOP IT! does he not understand? They woke up the baby~but seriously, it IS like having more children in the house!!

    #820696
    katzenjammer
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    Dorry is (according to charts) like 32 yrs old (typical guy still living at home LOL). But I do recall an incident when my Meadow dweller Nicky was a young kit. I was luxuriating in bath and he was crawling on ledge. I did warn him that house rules are “each man for himself”. Then he fell in, kits can swim, but well he made a mad dash out of water, splashing everywhere. Didn’t seem to realize that he could get back into his usual outfit, ie dry fur and was licking himself which was not helping. I came to his rescue with a fluffy towel. While laughing with him – not at him, I’m sure!

    #820713
    Judith
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    Brilliant stories! Cats really are the greatest- such personalities. In her time, Dru has fallen down the toilet but never into the bath:) The day will come I’m sure.
    Sleeping babies- I miss those days. I looked after one of my grandsons a lot when he was tiny and events always seemed to combine to wake him the moment he nodded off. I didn’t have a cat when my boys were little, I thought I was more a dog person. I think cats need you to have more time to appreciate them- they aren’t obvious like dogs and you have to work harder to become part of their lives. They will live alongside you just fine, but to really ‘get’ them, you have to put in the effort.

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