Fluffy...

 AKA The Chicken Thief.

Fluffy is the smallest of my cats, also the only long-haired one.

Fluffy

She is very cute, loves to be petted and held. She likes to climb onto people's shoulders.

Fluffy using Mikey to see outside

I always worry because she never seems to eat the cat food. I've found out that she prefers people's food, especially chicken.

Last summer I cooked some chicken breast and left it on the counter to cool for a salad. I left the kitchen, came back a few minutes later, and found Fluffy had grabbed a piece of chicken and was happily eating it.  She had managed to find the biggest piece from the pan!! I couldn't believe it.

My chicken

This was a couple of weeks ago. I swear these cats work together. One cat was sitting on my feet, I looked down to see who it was, and when I looked back Fluffy had snatched one of my chicken drum sticks!  In the background you can see a full tray of chicken, she wasn't interested in those, just mine.

I've tried putting her in the corridor when I cook or eat but she cries so much and sounds so pathetic that I let her back in!! 

Part of the fun, I guess!

Sleep All Day, Play All Night

 I know cats sleep a lot, something like 50 to 70% of the day!

I get that racing around at night is normal for them but it still gets to me!

A discussion with my cats recently went something like this.

Me:  Why are you racing around at 2am? Why can't you be normal and sleep when I want to sleep.

Cats: We are cute, and we are even cuter when we are asleep. So we sleep during the day so you can take photos of our cuteness!

Look at all those lovely photos for your blog!

Me: Okay, I get that but why 2am zoomies?

Cats:  My dear we are getting our 10,000 steps in, you know we have to keep fit to have a long healthy life.

Not sure I'm buying that!  

But the cats are indeed cute when they sleep and I do like getting photos of them. I try to take some when they are awake but those never seem to work out so well. They end up being blurred because the cats move too much. Like this.

Looks like I caught a ghost image!

I need to think of something to stop the late-night madness!!  Maybe a play time before bed?

Time Flies!!

 I've been meaning to write more but I never seem to have the time!

February was bitterly cold! Most days found the cats like this:

on the sofa with an electric blanket on

one of the warmest places in the sun

curled up together

In the morning I put the kerosene heater on in the living/dining room and have a line of cats in front. I've tried to explain that sitting in front of the heater means that the room doesn't warm up. But they don't listen.  

As the weather warms up I think the cats will get more active. I can already hear them racing around and fighting more! 

One problem is the neighborhood cats that come and hang outside. I don't mind them coming, I guess no choice, but I don't think they are fixed.

One of the neighborhood cats

There are at least three that come round, I haven't had the chance to get photos of the others yet. If they are just hanging out or coming to the windows I don't mind, it's when they start fighting and yowling that gets me. Also, something keeps ripping our trash bags to pieces, either one of the cats or some other animal. I live in the countryside of Japan, we can get several interesting animals here, wild boar and occasionally monkeys among other animals!

I hope to keep this blog up. I'm learning how to take videos and edit them, should be interesting! Look out for some interesting cat videos!