The Zebra Kittens will be one on the 3rd of April & I quite want to mark the occasion. They had such a rubbish start to life that I want them to have Lovely Things as far as possible. I'm on a v limited income but kittens come ahead of my Wants so they get proper-meat wet foods (Almo/Applaws/Bozita/Encore/Lily's Kitchen) & then Almo/Hills/James Wellbeloved/Royal Canin dry; I give them cat!toothpaste (the sort you just feed them a bit of) at night; they take a multivitamin they think is a delicious treat; I groom them regularly & carefully; they have a range of toys (lots hand-me-downs from friend's cats but all in perfect condition)... (Please note they are not totally spoiled though: they know there are Rules & - generally - follow them & I will move them so I can sit down etc. I am not completely Under The Paw...)
Anyhow, I suppose what I'm blethering about is that they do generally have Nice Things but I'd still quite like to make their birthday Special. They got some new toys at Christmas & had wet food for both meals (normally have breakfast wet & dinner dry) & had some treats & cat milk. They were in fact the only ones celebrating thanks to Christmas Being Cancelled for the humans.
So, do you mark your feline friends' birthdays? (Or adoption days if you don't know the former, one of my friends does that latter for her rescue kitty...) If so, what sort of things do you do? (My wildly overactive imagination is now spinning off into imagining cats having parties - not necessarily with their humans - with party games & presents & cake & so on. What would you put in a party-bag for a cat? Would you invite ALL the local cats or just your friends' cats? Party at home or hiring softplay or a trip to the theatre? Cats climbing the curtains after too many treats. Cats having tantrums because they didn't win pass-the-parcel. Cats in fancy-dress as humans. Cats singing "Happy Birthday"...)
It seems impossible the little moppets can be 10.5m old (& have lived here for 8.5m!) already, even though they've just had another growth-spurt & look increasingly like Grown Up Cats Not Tiny Baby Kittens.
I do try to make sure the kittens feel Loved And Special every day & I know celebrating their birthday would mostly be for me (& my Bother, if he;s about, as he is soppy as anything about them) but would it make me Scary Crazy Cat Lady (C4 documentary waiting to happen)? It's a normal thing to do, right?
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Do you celebrate your cats' birthdays?
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ZebraOwl · 18/02/2013 23:05
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