Gratuitous pics of naughtiness

[susie_flo]

The kittens nearly died from excitement on Saturday when I started to put the xmas decorations on the tree.  Harriet climbed inside every single box that came down from the loft, including the small ones that contained strings of lights.  Meanwhile Truffle ran around the room at high speed about 30 times, jumping in and out of the bauble boxes on each circuit.   Actually getting the decorations onto the tree was a lengthy challenge... lets just say there was a lot of "helping".

Since Sunday morning they've done a reasonable job of feigning tree ennui... until G and I go to bed, at which point we hear the inevitable sound of baubles being attacked (and I spend the following morning re-attaching them to the tree).

This morning they decided that ennui was passé and progressed to climbing the tree and having a play fight about halfway up.  (My pathetic attempts at disciplining them with "Naughty kitty!  Oh, but wait while I get a picture"  had about as much effect as you would expect.)

Overall these high speed antics have been impossible to photograph, but I have managed to put a few below the cut...  (sorry the first one is a low-res phone pic).

Comments

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

Kittenlove!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I do adore them :-)

[chiller.livejournal.com]

Ok, those actually made me LOL.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

They made me lol even while trying to tell them off

[tvted.livejournal.com]

Those are TOTALLY hilarious and Harriet looks like an ornament in the 2nd one. Baby Jesus kitten!

Perhaps you could get them to pose in a nativity scene next

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

It's the glowing little nose that makes her look holy :-)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Utterly utterly adorable - especially the second pic, is that Harriet? she looks like she comes with her own extra cute photoshop feature.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

She really is off-the-scale cute. Poor Truffle is nowhere near as photogenic (her charms are more tactile, because she is much cuddlier than Harriet)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Awww :-)

It's taken a long time with our two but they've finally got quite snuggly, it's lovely at night now as all four of us curl up on the sofa. Bliss.

We saw the lady we adopted them from on Saturday at the cat rescue xmas fair (it pains me to say Leeds Feline Friends as it sounds like some kind of furry plushy group) and she said one of her cats took 12 years to become snuggly. 12 years!!!!!!!!! Now that is patience.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

12 years is crazy patience. (The cat must have lost its marbles and become affectionate by mistake!)

[ms-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Have you seen a film called The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue? it features a dastardly government pesticide experiment (which consists of soundwaves being pumped into the ground via a very big vegetable steamer with silver straws hanging off it) which acts on primitive nervous systems namely new born children and the recently dead turnng them into violent flesh eating zombies. When Mapp suddenly let us touch and stroke her we did wonder if a similar experiment was being done near us so about face was the change in her personality.

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

IZ DED OF CUTE.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

:-)

[r0ck3tsci3ntist.livejournal.com]

OMGosh! LOL ADORABLE! (I love the big "crazy kitty" eyes)

[perfectlyvague.livejournal.com]

Yup - that middle one is just - oh - juuuuuust - I want it as a poster.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

In case the urge takes you... here is a link to a much larger resolution version of the pic :-)
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5242/5258280257_bc3b0f5ff8_o.jpg

[gylfinir.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww!

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Totally :-)

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

Aww! I think you've just found next year's Christmas cards.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

PS Now that all kittens are out of bags, I can explain that the curious phenomenon of the excess trifle was because Madame Meanie is trifling for two these days.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

You are going to get my junior alien hooked on trifle and he/she will end up loving you for ever

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

This is certainly very tempting!

[sara-lou.livejournal.com]

Totally beyond brilliant. :-)

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

I do hope they behave for you on Thurs

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww! Kittens + Xmas trees = AWESOME.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

What on earth did I do before kittens?

[lazy-hoor.livejournal.com]

Life must have been completely joyless...