Keeping up with Cookie and her crumbs - week 6

Biscuit

Graham

Six weeks in and our little kittens are now starting to look like little adult cats.

Keebler

Everyone is starting to eat solid food from the dish now .......


Even our little boy Graham! - Just like a boy he's in the dish feet and all.

Sorry mom - we'll leave you alone to supervise!

(Here's an interesting cat fact:  Did you know that a cats jaw can't move sideways - so a cat can't chew large chunks of food.)

On the activity side of development:

The kittens are working diligently on all  their skills playing, jumping, running and wrestling and becoming more agile and athletic everyday.

Cats sure have some amazing athletic abilities- largely because of their design.

A cats back is extremely flexible because it has up to 53 loose fitting vertebrae - humans have only 34. Cats also have 230 bones in its body while humans have 206.  A cat can fit through any opening the size of its head because it has no collarbone. A cat can jump up to 5 times its own height in a single bound and can travel at a top speed of approximately 31 mph over a short distance.  - pretty impressive!

Socially, our kittens are learning new things everyday.

Our "kitten kindergarten" volunteers have  been hard at work socializing  the little guys, and we're all pretty impressed at how well things are going.

From meeting new cats- here Biscuit and Maurice spend a few careful moments together on the catio.

To walks outside in our stroller - getting a little bigger picture of the world.

While mom watches intently  from her window view:

Soon they'll be ready to move on to lives of their own.

Finally - time for our group shot .. . which IS getting more difficult to take.  Without fail, there's always  a paw sticking in the wrong spot.

or somebody (no names) has to be a joker and stick a tongue in someones ear!

Next thing you know a wrestling match breaks out and someone's calling for mom!

And of course someone gets fed up with the horseplay  and leaves -   

and there goes our shot!

KIDS!

(Funny how one moment of cuteness erases all that misbehavior)