Kako is doing fine. It was just an upset stomach she had yesterday. By the afternoon, and after much sleep, she was doing fine: eating, drinking, playing, and generally being the lovingly bitchy feline she always is. Good, I didn’t need a cat emergency this week. My schedule was already too full.
I don’t often find The Twins, Kako and Kazon, sleeping together. Although they were quite close when young, once Kako found a new man (Grendel) she promptly and brutally dropped her brother and began treating him like the dumb jock he is.
There are times, in fact, when I wonder if she’s embarrassed to admit they’re related. Considering she smacks him around so much that he now cringes when she walks by, perhaps it’s even worse than that, but her reasons, whatever they may be, have certainly placed a wedge between them.
Despite this, Kazon loves his sister, and the do play together constantly. And from time to time, I see Kako make her way to Kazon so they might sleep together, even if only briefly. They may not be best friends, but they are still siblings who ultimately love each other regardless of violence being the main manifestation of that affection.
The other day I walked into the bedroom to pull the sheets off the bed as part of laundry day and what do you imagine I found? Yes, it was The Twins curled up together in complete and deep sleep, resting comfortably and blissfully with each other. It was a terribly sweet and rare sight.
[The Twins: (left to right) Kako and Kazon]
In early 1999, only months after adopting Kako and Kazon, Derek and I went on a shopping spree at Cat Connection, returning home a few hours later with all manner of new toys and goodies for The Kids. Some of those toys included a handful of feathers.
Each of The Kids got a feather, and boy-oh-boy did the fun begin. Feathers were flying and cats were spinning and leaping and hunting and talking up a storm. Derek and I laughed uncontrollably as we watched the mayhem unfold.
Sadly, the photos I took were with a very old film-based camera and is evidenced by the quality of the pictures. That also means I did not get any video. Irrespective of the lowbrow method of recording the fun, attached are some of the pictures I took that day showing the feather beasts and subsequent bedlam.
One thing you will notice in the photos is that this happened two or three weeks after Grendel‘s hip surgery. That is why his back-right quarter appears to be new hair growth: it is. They shaved a large chunk of his body and the photo shows it in an interim state of regrowth.
Loki put the feather inside Derek’s sneaker, then promptly attacked the sneaker with vicious abandon. He loves playing with shoes even if there’s no toy surprise inside.
Hip surgery or not, Grendel was a wild man with the feathers, rolling around and talking excitedly the whole time.
Kazon loves feathers and had a hard time finding one to play with. Each time he did, one of the feathers his siblings had would catch his attention.
Kako pounced on the feather and took great joy in conquering the beast before it could do more harm.
