Since Berta took our cats to the vet last week things have not been right around our house.
I guess they got some strange smells of other animals in their snoots while at the vet's office, and it woke them up to the world outside. But the world outside is not really the problem. Since they've gotten home, they've been literally at each others' throats.
At first we just thought maybe they were acting up, but what start out as a single fur-flying catfight turned into a multi-episode, nearly-continuous brawl. There were literally clumps of fur left all over the house, looking like someone just dumped the innards of several vacuum bags in discrete locations around our house....
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The kittens have been with us for a couple of weeks now, and we're all adjusting to the changes.
When they first moved in, they lived in the laundry room behind the dryer, where we assume it was warm and out of the way. Eventually, someone turned on the dryer and that was the end of that, but they still venture in there to their electronic litter box (yes, it cleans itself), which has been working quite well for everyone concerned.
As Berta noticed, they would venture out slowly from the laundry room, going only as far as a few feet, then returning to base. Then they'd go a littler farther, then return. They're still a bit shy about leaving the family room, although we've since given them nearly full access to the first and second floors....
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