Day 47 - 7/10/08 - 8 WEEKS OLD TODAY

Weight: 2 lb 3.6 oz

Feedings: Every 6 hours

Food: Well SHE caught on to the whole formula thing and has taken it out of my food. Now I am only fed Iams wet kitten food with a couple teaspoons of warm water to add a little gravy to it, otherwise it is very dry.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!! I am 8 Weeks old today and SHE seems very proud of this milestone. Not sure why but SHE keeps telling me "8 weeks is when you leave your mother". Don't think SHE means I'm leaving HER or anything because I know for a fact SHE and THE OTHER ONE like me a lot. It gets a little embarassing sometimes actually! And it's not like I am leaving on my own, I hit the MOTHERLOAD here. They wait on me hand and foot and the food keeps coming so you'll lose a limb if you try to get me out of here. Oh and the humans aren't so bad, they did save me after all.

I think I might have mentioned yesterday, how much I like stairs. Now you can see me playing with my good friend Andrew. Some of the pictures are a little blurry because the photographer couldn't keep her hand steady. I think she drinks! Just kidding! They are blurry because, yes, I do move that fast!

Day 46 - 7/9/08

Weight: 2 lb 3.6 oz

Feedings: Every 6 hours

Food: KMR 2nd Step mixed with water mixed with a spoonful of wet kitten food. SHE thinks I don't notice that there is hardly any of my formula being mixed in with the wet food. What SHE doesn't know is that I really like the wet food and will be fine when there is no more formula.

STAIRS ARE THE GREATEST THINGS EVER!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know why SHE kept me from them for so long! I love going up and down them and I am very good at it. Sometimes I just go up them so I can come back down again. This morning I showed HER and THE OTHER ONE just how good I was by running up and down them several times. Maybe after I'm done posting this blog I will run up and down them again, just because I CAN!

I have learned a new trick to get what I want. I can climb HER legs. SHE seems to enjoy it because when I do it I get more of those happy sounds in a very high pitched voice "OW! OW! OW!". I don't know why SHE has to be so shrill about her happiness, especially first thing in the morning!

Speaking of first thing in the morning, this is my favorite sleeping pose.



Off to run the stairs!

Day 45 - 7/8/08

Weight: 2 lb 2.1 oz

Feedings: Every 6 hours

Food: KMR 2nd Step mixed with water mixed with a spoonful of wet kitten food. SHE thinks I don't notice that there is hardly any of my formula being mixed in with the wet food. What SHE doesn't know is that I really like the wet food and will be fine when there is no more formula.

My new favorite game is biting - feet, hands, arms, faces, I'm not picky. The best part is when the humans make squealling sounds of delight. It seems their favorite happy sound is "Ow! Ow! Ow!". They really squeal when I get a wild streak and go at their face. I love that I make them so happy. Part of the game is they try to distract me with my toys but I know they really want me to continue biting them, so I don't allow the distractions. You know what is the best? When I decide to play with HER early in the morning, when it is still dark and SHE is asleep. I really get happy sounds then. Though, sometimes they use words I am not familiar with like No! and Stop! I asked Andrew what they meant and he said he wasn't sure but he thought they were words of encouragement and meant for us to keep doing what we are doing.

SHE loves me so much she made me a toy this weekend. SHE worked so hard on it, I figured I should please her and play with it, even though we were at the place where I can't go on the floor because the STUPID dogs are there. Man, those creatures are D-U-M-B. One of them is blind and doesn't even know I'm there half the time. I have to let him know by saying nasty things to him. Then he tries to get on the table to get me and the humans yell at him. Ha! Ha! Anyway, this weekend SHE managed to take one good picture of me with my new elephant. I was playing shy and any time SHE got the camera, I stopped playing. SHE says it is such a "cute" picture. PLEASE! I'm a boy and I am not cute. What I am doing here is showing my athletic prowess and practising elephant tossing for when they make it an Olympic Sport. Sometimes, SHE just doesn't get it but she feeds me so I put up with HER.

Day 44 - 7/7/08

Weight: 2 lb 2.1 oz

Feedings: Every 6 hours

Food: KMR 2nd Step mixed with water mixed with a spoonful of wet kitten food. Slowly mixing more and more of the wet food in to wean off the formula.

Dudley here...Now that I am almost 8 weeks old, I have decided to author my own blog. It was getting a little ridiculous, I mean SHE hasn't posted about me in 4 whole days. How am I supposed to keep my Blogoshere star status if she keeps using excuses like vacation and work to avoid blogging about ME.

I have a new friend in Andrew Eugene - SHE calls us her black and white bookends. Now that I am looking like a cat, Andrew (SHE calls him Huge Eug but that is not dignified so I call him Andrew) has decided I might be OK. We like to play. Our favorite game is when I bite his legs and then he chases me. SHE says Andrew may not like it as much as I think, but SHE is wrong. Just look at how Andrew protects me while I sleep.



Here SHE is yelling at me to not touch Andrew while he sleeps and I am trying to communicate to her that I am just looking at him. SHE's kind of dense sometimes because she kept yelling at me. I may have to take over the picture taking too. SHE focused the camera on Andrew so I am fuzzy - the nerve!



When I sat down to show her that I wasn't bothering Andrew, at least she focused properly.



Well that didn't take any time at all, I don't know what she complains about not having time to write my posts. I will just have to do it myself from now on.

Day 40 - 7/3/08

Weight: 1 lb 14.7 oz

Feedings: Every 6 hours

Food: KMR 2nd Step mixed with water mixed with a spoonful of wet kitten food.

Today's picture, though fuzzy, is so sweet; more for the story behind it. Usually, Dudley sleeps in his chair burrowed in his comforter. This morning I was working at my desk and I looked down on the floor curled up between my feet, very much asleep, was Dudley. He didn't want to be too far away from me, I guess the 5 feet to the chair was too far. Each time I moved my feet he would get up and move with them so that he and I were touching at all times.

Day 39 - 7/2/08

Weight: 1 lb 14.7 oz

Feedings: Every 6 hours

Food: KMR 2nd Step mixed with water mixed with a spoonful of wet kitten food. Dudley is starting to show interest in the adult cats' wet food. Too bad for him his adult siblings are such pigs they won't let him near their bowls.

Poor Huge Eug is used to my undivided attention and just doesn't understand how I (the traitor) could find something as cute as he is. Dudley does not help because anytime I pay attention to Huge, Dudley acts like a jealous child and comes running over to me. Huge is starting to do the same when I pay attention to Dudley. There was one point yesterday where I had my black and white bookends sitting on each foot. 1 lb 14.7 oz on one foot and 20 lbs on the other!

More playing pictures today.

Day 38 - 7/1/08

Weight: 1 lb 13.4 oz

Feedings: Every 6 hours

Food: KMR 2nd Step mixed with KMR Formula mixed with a miniscule amount of Iams Wet Kitten Food. Too much is too much of a change and he won't eat.

When he is not sleeping, Dudley loves to play. His newest favorite plaything are feet. He will grab them and chew them. Mary Beth learned the hard way last night that socks are a necessity in our household these days. He has two favorite cat toys - a pink rabbit and a green mouse. They go everywhere with him and today's pictures are Dudley with his favorite toys.


It's My Rabbit and You Can't Have It!


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