Jake seems to be feeling better with his heart medicine.  He is so easy to
pill that I have to be careful not to forget to pill him.

Molly is just Molly.  She has seemed more affectionate the past week or so.
At least comes close enough for scritches if not all the way on my lap.
Unless she can see the bottom of the food bowl and then she is on my lap and
patting my face.

Molly and Kayla are almost buddies.  And Jake seems to be giving up on most
of his animosity.  Now we just have do deal with good old fashioned
jealousy.  They will share the sofa or once in a while even share my lap.
Not because they want to be close to each other mind you.  But I can imagine
shared body heat by this winter.

Kayla is now ten months old and is starting to settle down some.  Either
that or I'm getting used to spending every waking minute in her sight.  I
thank God and His angels that we decided to crate her at night from the very
beginning.

But she will now spend a few hours a day sleeping on the sofa or on my feet
on the floor.  And can entertain herself for quite a bit of time in the
backyard with a basketball.  Preferable with me out there to watch.  She has
three basketballs.  The only size and type I've found that she doesn't
destroy.  And she plays her version of soccer with them.  Runs and pushes
them around the yard.  I'm pretty sure a goal is getting them into the
enclosures I put around the new azaleas to protect them from her antics.
She can run and keep the ball up in the air on her nose for several seconds
at a time.

Now this can be pretty rough on the nose after a while.  So now she goes out
and finds a soft toy, usually her plush hot dog to keep in her mouth and she
used that to push the ball around.

That's the good news.  The bad news, at the park two days ago she broke up
two soccer games and one baseball practice.  After eating her leash.  The
kids adore her so it isn't that big a problem.  Her not coming when I call
her is a problem but school starts next week.

Why are cats easier than dogs

Yes cats can be destructive.  Mostly with claws, but they have other ways as
well.  Now Kayla has lots and lots of chew toys, bones, sticks, etc.  And
all the exposed wood in her part of the house has been thoroughly sprayed
with bitter apple.  Now she has developed a taste for drywall.  She is
trying to eat the house.  I have half a dozen spots I'm going to have to
repair and repaint.  It used to be just scratching if we left her crate too
close the wall, but the last week or so she has picked a few spots at
random.  And for no better reason than that I fell asleep and wasn't paying
attention to her.

(I think we should develop a whole line of household cleaning and painting
products that are laced with bitter apple.)

I've been taking prednisone for several months now first for asthma and then
for the itching from the scabies.  And then just because it takes forever to
wean off it when you have been on it for several months.  I'm very nearly
down to taking none. Side effect is all I want to do is sleep.  Needless to
say, cats don't much mind when you sleep 18 hours a day.  Border Collie pups
get bored.  I still get up with them at 6am.  Only now I tend to fall asleep
in the sofa by 7:30am.

Now to get my act together and go get her signed up for school.  (Oh and you
don't have to take cats to school)

Jo