Ziva. the sports model

Around eight last night, the Mip Mips were all sleeping – three in their nest, Mewthos on the bed. I sat down and read my book for an hour – the only activity was Mewthos changing sleeping locations: he came to lie on my lap, purring happily. Around nine I lie down, switch off the lights and try to sleep. Enter the pinballs! More claw marks as they race across me.

This morning, as I’m about to leave for work, they all come clambering onto my lap – so I put down plenty of food in their bowl and on the plate and leave them eating noisily. As I open the door, Shadow comes shooting in – no, she won’t go outside, she’s here to see the Mip Mips, so open the bedroom door already! Sigh, there goes the Mip Mip food – with Ziva away, Shadow takes over as the bold Mip Mip food devourer. At least the Mip Mips have managed to get one meal out of it.

I need to come up with some way to dry out the litter box sand regularly. With Mynx that wasn’t an issue – he was one cat, and used the gravel litter in the bathroom, which I’d exchange for new litter regularly. But with two adults and four kittens using fine sand litter – I can’t throw out 5kg sand every couple of days! I sift through it daily, picking out all lumps, but it’s the wet sand that stinks! In my bedroom! I had it outside in the sun all day yesterday, turning the sand regularly – but it was still not dry! And I simply can’t throw it out and re-fill with a new bag, where would I throw it? I can’t put 10kg sand into my garbage bag every week! Even 5kg a week is too much – and it is also much too expensive. So I have to find some routine to dry it out.

Washing (as in rinsing it with water) would be better, but can you think of any way to rinse sand? Gravel, yes, but fine sand? Talk about nailing jelly to the ceiling, eh? Well, not quite as impossible, I could mix the sand with water, wait for it to settle at the bottom then pour off the water, though I’m likely to loose some sand; tedious but possible. Though I can’t do that twice a week!

Also: unlike with Mynx, I have to have a litter box in place while I clean it. With Mynx I could just take it away and clean it in my own time – no worries. But with four kittens? No chance! Well, the weather report says it should be sunny with chance of a shower on Saturday and mainly sunny on Sunday – so I have two days to figure something out!

I picked up Ziva at the vet – she’s lovely and docile when she’s drugged! While there, I also had her vaccinated, since she probably never was. This week, I’ve officially spent on the cats as much as I spend on cigarettes in a month! I asked the vet, who did the vaccination, about her eye and he looked and said she injured her eye a long time ago. There’s a white mark on her eyeball and he could see a blood clot at the back of it – but it was healed and nothing to worry about. He also guessed her to have some Abyssinian breed in her mix somewhere. He also said she should calm down a lot without the hormones driving her out and about so much – should, though. There’s no guarantee. Well, I certainly hope so!

She was complaining, but otherwise inactive on the ride home. Back at home she licked herself and several times tried to pull the stitch out! I stopped her over and over, and I hope she’s got the message. I’m not letting her out tonight, nor tomorrow morning – I did give her a treat, though!

I better pack my lunch and fry myself a quick steak for dinner, since it’s getting late once again. I liked reading my book last night – and would like to do that every night.