SPONJA’S kittens are still alive and well and living a high life of eating, pooing and sleeping… and, now I think of it, that’s all Emric, Iestyn and Fezzy do, too, so it’s not like the catlets have major life changes ahead of them. They’re still very weak and blind but are safe and warm in the cage in our backyard.

They’re also unbelievably cute. I mean, just look at that little face. We thought Fezzy was cute when we got him, but these are just adorable. If they’re not climbing all over Sponja and making little squeaky noises, they’re fast asleep […]

SPONJA dropped her third load of sprogs this morning, somewhere between 10 and 11am. There are five altogether — two black ones and three that look like miniature Fezzies. They’re all dead cute and are safe and well. Although I missed their appearance I was in time to see Sponja eat the afterbirth, a sight that will haunt my nightmares for decades to come.

Sorry about the crappy camerawork, but it’s me. Here are some more photos:

They’re not really doing much at the mo — just […]

WE’VE finally caught Sponja, and by “we” I mean “Ev” as I was playing Angry Birds at the time. Whereas we’re happy she’s finally behind bars, the same can’t be said for little Sponja, who has gone apeshit. At one point I did wonder if the bars of the cage would hold and waited for Ev’s hands to be ripped to shreds when she chucked the cat bed and plate of food in. But Sponja soon went from ballistic ball of belligerent fur to a pretty pathetic crying kitty and has now settled down to a life of plaintive meowing.

Of course with […]

THERE’S no other explanation for his recent behaviour. Personally, I think he knows we’re taking him in to have his knackers off next week and is probing us for weaknesses so he can either do away with us and make it look like an accident, or wait til nighttime and massacre us in our sleep.

Take his latest ploy, the leg-grab. Basically, I walk towards/past/within 30 feet of Fezzy and he rears up and makes a grab for whichever leg is closest to him. There’s too much wrong with that, you might think — BUT he only does it first thing in […]

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WITH three more of Sponja’s latest kittens caught and waiting for new homes/the van from the local Chinese takeaway, we realised we’d need somewhere to house them. The spare catbox helped for a while but it wasn’t big enough. Then Ev hit on the idea of making a home for them out of PetCo cat carrier boxes and leftover moving cartons. With the aid of a craft knife, marker and a ton of tape we knocked this up last night and this morning.

From left: bathroom, living area, kitchen, indoor pool. We were a tad disappointed that we couldn’t afford marble flooring […]

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IT’S taken a while, but the rest of Sponja’s second brood have finally shown themselves. I can’t tell if there’s four or five of them — two or three are black and the other two are identical to Mr. Fezziwig.

They’re all about five weeks old and we have to capture them before they get too big and fast like the last lot did. It would be a lot easier if they’d just get stuck in a box like Fezzi did, but we’re going to have to get the trap out of the garage and go after them in our neighbour’s garden this weekend.

There’s […]

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