Macky, Mowie, and Sunny

Last night we lit the first fire of the season, and the first fire of Mac, Sunny’s and maybe Mowie’s lives.  Sunny usually lays on the brick so we expected him to love it.  Mowie frequently lays in front of the vent when the heat is blowing so we expected her to be a fan as well.  Mac doesn’t stay still long enough to notice anything, so we expected him to be playing with his toys.

As Mike started the fire, the usually well behaved Sunny was nosey and wanted in.  Once it was started he stood with his nose against the mesh thingy.  He stood like that for about 15 minutes, just staring into the fire.  Just watching him hurt my eyes, and made me hot.  Mac had the same reaction, although he wasn’t as persistant.  He stuck his nose through the little fence for a few minutes, then ran away to play.  Mowie didn’t even know there was a fire.. she’s too grown up for those curious kitten antics.

When the new-ness of the fire died down, it was Macky who layed in front of it and passed out.  Yes, Macintosh was actually sleeping, and for more than 5 minutes.  He was so happily sprawled out and caught up on some sleep he’s been missing for the past 7 months or so.  Sunny layed in front of the fire for bits at a time, I think he was getting too hot.  He does have that overly fluffy coat on, afterall.  Mowie even spent some time lounging, after the kittens walked away of course.  She wouldn’t want them to know they shared interests.

We apologize to all of Mac, Sunny and Mowie’s fans who have been anxiously awaiting an update. We’re bad parents.

Mac should be fully healed right now, he just has to make his final vet visit. He’s happy, crazy and playful. Did I mention crazy? He’s recently developed this long and lean body, almost like a greyhound. For a while he had a fat belly full of kitten chow, but now he looks like he never eats. Well he doesn’t eat much compared to Sunny and Mowie who live for dinner time, he’s too busy playing to care.

Sunny’s been busy sleeping. He can sleep almost as much as Mike. In a recent battle, Sunny won the sleep off by just an hour or so. He sleeps all day, but he’s up most of the night playing on his giant scratching post, which he loves. He also decided to boycott kitten food all together, forcing us to feed him adult food. Speaking of that scratching post….

Mac’s favorite new game (with a broken leg) is to climb to the top of the 8 foot post (see below) and immediately jump onto the couch. Then he climbs up and does it all over again, like a child going down a slide.

Mowie has been pretty happy. She spends her days tanning in the sun with her belly up in the air. When she’s not lounging, she’s playing mostly with Mac, since they both suffer from ADHD. She left her role of security guard breaking up Mac and Sunny’s wrestling matches and now instigates or starts her own. She recently began kissing Mac on his forehead when she sees him, which is the cutest thing ever.  Sunny sleeps through 90% of this…
Until next time!

Mac and Sunny turned 7 months old today! Just 5 months left of kittenhood :(

We found this awesome site, catster.com, which is like a myspace/facebook for cats! On it you’re able to make a profile for each of your cats, then they are clustered into your family. It is so cute, I wasn’t even done making their profiles and people were immediately messaging Mac, Sunny, Mowie or all of them! The profile questions are every question I could imagine the cats being asked, like how many lives do you have left? Of course we all know, Mac is down to 6. I thought I was the only crazy person out there, but seeing some of the messages the other cats have written to our cats (yes the messages are written from the cat’s point of view), I know I am not alone, nor as crazy as I thought.
If you think a cat is cute, you can give them treats which are temporary (of course they’re eaten!) or stars, which stay on your profile forever. Someone thought Sunny was cute so he got 1 star. Mowie’s currently winning the friend count with 38.

You can also search pets by name so there are 5 other cats named Macintosh, 67 named Sunny and only one other Mowie! If you have a dog, there’s also dogster.com and dogs can be friends with cats and listed as your family. I think this is the best invention ever. Better than myspace and facebook…combined.

On a serious note, there’s groups that help pet owners with different help topics. So everyone should definitely sign their pets up. Then add Mac, Sunny and Mowie as their friends :)

I now have picture proof that all three cats actually love eachother.  I mean, why else would they be sleeping all a foot apart from one another?

The video of Mowie attacking the lap top bag (see below) has been viewed over 6,000 times on youtube! I knew we should have put her in a macandsunny.com t-shirt…

It’s getting to her head and she wants to move to L.A. where she’d get more paparazzi action. She thinks she’d be perfect replacing Nicole Ritchie on the Simple Life. Mowie loves Paris Hilton.

;)

Macky fell in the toilet.

Again.

Well, Macky was the first one to the top of the new scratching post. Totally shocked me that he was able to make it up there with a healing broken leg, but then again, it’s Macintosh — I shouldn’t be suprised over things like this anymore.

But, but! Sunny just made it to the top, too! We move the pole to my bed room since the whole dvd thing (see previous entry) was a bit nerve racking. I heard some loud scratching going on, so I checked up on the babies. Sure enough, Sunny is on the top level with Macky right below him.

Sunny, being the alpha-male that he is, immediately started to boast about his achievement.

“I’m the king of the world!” screamed Sunny down towards Macky.

“Eat it, Sunny. I’ll come up there and pull you down!” yelled Macky.

Macky proceeded to bite at Sunny’s tail; he tried so hard to get Sunny down. And poor Sunny, just trying to bask in some form of glory over his brother, was holding on to dear life, as you can tell from the picture. I stepped in, though, as this whole rivalry is bound for more trouble.

We recently bought the kiddies one of those ceiling high scratching post things. Mowie has no interest, of course, but that’s ok, she’s a dada’s girl.

Macky and Sunny, however, have been all over it. They go from the desk, to the window sill, and to the 3rd level post — and then back. Very quickly. I haven’t seen anyone on the highest level, though (except for maybe Rebecca). I thought they were too young to venture up there. Rebecca did call it though. As we were setting the post up, she said they’ll be on top of the DVD racks. We shrugged it off thinking we had a few more weeks until they had enough courage to make the trek.

We were wrong. Very, very wrong.

On top of my DVD racks, I have three Disney animation cells on display that Rebecca bought me for Christmas (I love these things). Well, this morning, they were no longer there. Instead, they were on the floor. Scattered, face down, on the floor. Apparently who ever knocked them over doesn’t like Disney. Well, we can certainly scratch Sunny out — he loves Disney. Specifically, he loves the Lion King — he thinks he’s Simba. Also, a few DVDs were pushed out of their racks and onto the floor. I looked at the titles, but unfortunately, they led to no further conclusions.

And you all wonder how a kitten could break his leg.

I put everything away and went on with my day. As I’m online, I hear something — it sounds like nails scratching on plastic. I turn around and look at the scratching post; nothing. I look at the leather chair; nothing. Then, in the corner of my eye, I see this little rat on top of my DVD racks. He was just sitting up there laughing at me. It was Macky. The one with the broken leg. The one that has already lost, count it, two of his lives.

Oh, and I have proof as you can see below. My camera is dying so my flash wasn’t working. The pictures are of bad quality, but you get the idea of the situation.

Macky is being charged with 2 counts of being absolutely crazy. If found guilty, he could be held without MySpace for up to two weeks.

“Hm, what movie do I want to watch?”

“Sunny, what movie do I want to watch?”

“Oh, oh, Nemo! The Nemo movie, Macky!.”

“No Sunny, we watch guns.  And blood.  And war!”

“Sunny, your choices are The Fast and The Furious, Jaws, or the Rocky series.”

“Nemo!”

“I told you, we don’t watch kid movies!”