Who's in the box?

A Mouse's Tail

For Christmas, Ayesha and Zhuki got a little mouse toy that runs around randomly on its own. The drama unfolds!

First, Zhuki was afraid of it:







Then, it started to make itself a bit too much at home:






Then, with Ayesha now getting involved, Zhuki became bolder:






Before long, everybody was playing happily together:

Top o' the world!

Zhukov from below

Christmas box

Ayesha and the Christmas wreath

Room for two

Ayesha gets in on the act

More boxsploitation

Zhukov in a box

For Christmas, my parents sent me a present which came from Amazon in a four-foot-long, two-foot-high, box. Needless to say it is now the cats' favourite plaything. The box, I mean, obviously...

Sharing a sofa

Staircase

Ayesha, suspicious

Zhukov, zonked out: Spiral

Ayesha in autumn

Under the Bed

Ayesha and Zhukov hiding from the trick or treaters, in their Fortress of Cattitude.

Zhukov and the Jack O'Lantern

Enigmatic Ayesha

This is one of my absolute favourite pictures of her.

Touching paws

Bookend cats

More overgrooming

The vet's put him on a special diet and given him a steroid shot, both of which are helping, but he's lost an awful lot of fur.

Zhukov playing

Apologies for the darkness of this video-- I wanted to record the way he was leaping around, but the Blackberry was the closest thing to hand.

Ayesha on a sofa

On a table

Overlord

More gardening

Ayesha on a blue bed

Asprawl

Garden Ayesha

Zhukov, overgroomed

Showing the extent of the overgrooming problem.

Tortieball

Finally got some better footage of Ayesha playing tortieball.

Zhukov zonked out: work? I'm all over it...

Showing off the harness

Zhukov, still in charge of the garden

Ayesha with ball and pillow

Ayesha and a pillow

Ayesha playing with a ball

Zhukov plays with a poppy

Zhukov, in the Cone of Shame, plays with a poppy in the garden.

Zhukov, chilling on the lead

Zhukov's convalescence

Apologies for the lack of posts. The main reason has been that poor Zhukov has not been well, he's been suffering from a series of infections which, after five fraught weeks, the vet finally thinks we've knocked on the head. He's on the mend now, but it's been a tough time for him.

While convalescing, he's been restricted to quarters and only allowed out on a lead:

Form an S

Ayesha having a wash

Ayesha the contortionist

Or possibly "con-tortie-onist."

Zhukov, zonked out: online

Ayesha's Russian hat impression

Zhukov gets a toweling

A rain-sodden Zhukov needs a toweling down....

Zhukov plays with a feather

Ayesha's turf war

The backstory to this: Ayesha came in one afteroon with a teenaged starling, again, but this time with its mother in hot pursuit. We got the baby away from her, checked it was OK, and released it back into the wild. However, this was far from the end of it as far as the mother was concerned, and she spent the next forty-eight hours hurling abuse at Ayesha from the neighbours' fence, a challenge Ayesha did not take lightly.

Ayesha chases a fly

Ayesha's nest

Basking

None shall pass

Zhukov as a bun

Ayesha surveys her kingdom

*My* feather!

Zhukov zonked out: Come on, vogue, vogue....

Double spiral

Zhukov zonked out: Couch Potato

On guard

Snuggling

Zhukov zonked out: on the square

While sorting the laundry, I left an unfolded flannel on the bed. I went away for a minute and came back, to find it occupied.