Now - ain't that cute

Heart-stopping at times but cute.  Note that the drop from this ledge is about 6m (20 feet) and the little guys would still fit in a boiler suit pocket.  Their Mum is a bit lassez faire about their education, but will drag them home eventually. 

Baby Calico did manage to catch her slip and claw her way back up over the edge.


The Wee Bruiser can now jump up about 3 feet.


No 1 is less confident and waits to be rescued by Mum.

F has constructed a sort of 'kitten assault course' which their Mum is taking some advantage of and we guess the littluns will eventually work out their best route down to the human provided food and back up again to safety.  Meanwhile to move those unwilling to come home on their own, Miss C scruffs them and lifts her head as high as possible.  It doesn't result in their feet coming off the ground, so they resist.  As she cannot walk with a resisting kitten underneath her, she turns about and backs up dragging the resisting (yelling) kitten along whatever ledge they happen to be on.

All this activity is entertaining but knows no reasonable hour, so the sound of squalling kitten, resisting arrest can be heard at all hours and is not particularly welcome at 0430.

They can all catch up on their sleep

Hanging out as an extended family

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  1. Hari OM
    ...what a difference between yours and these lives, Tigger... This is how one feels at times watching the homeless hyoomons; some know how to seek and accept help, some reject it outright and others just sit and wait for it to come them - maybe. There's no magic wand, eh? Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx

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    1. These ones seek/accept help - with terms. They just don't get cuddly with humans. F managed to flea treat one of them yesterday and wouldn't let him go until he stopped wriggling (and so that the spray dried before he tried to lick himself), and he calmed completely to a few chin rubs. Now we just have to collar the other two in the backyard. They go onto the balcony below us (from that ledge) and Clara likes them, but she is not one to catch them and present them for 'treatment'. No 1 (as we call the one treated because he was the first to 'fall' into the backyard) has nearly mastered the assault course. Give it a couple of days and they will all be pros at it.

      Their lives ain't so bad. They have lots of humans looking out for them now and our backyard has gone from concrete box to 'environment' on the basis of providing stuff for their safety and entertainment. I would enjoy some of their freedoms. xxx Mr T

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    2. Hari OM
      good to hear, Mr T... your hyoomon is quite the lady for being hands on ! Yxx

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  2. oh babies! they are so cute

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    1. Yeah - F and I sit together on our back balcony in the evenings and watch them learning to explore the places accessible to them.

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  3. In a previous life I ‘bred’ Burmese - yes for privileged people to buy, not as a possession but to be a companion and provide stress relief. The kittens had all sorts of jungle gyms/tree houses/cardboard boxes and ‘equipment’ both to play on and ‘tone their muscles - watching them as well as handling them/playing with them (and mum) was my stress relief.

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    1. These guys have had to tone their muscles fairly rapidly. Baby C is clearly quite good at pull-ups. The Wee Bruiser has learned jumping, and No 1 has powerful lungs. You are right about pets being good stress medication.

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