Turkey Brothers Update

 Today's pointless cat photos are actually comparison shots so you can see how the Turkey Brothers are growing. For the first versions, check here, here, and here.

Yep, the brothers are getting bigger, and definitely more active. Bob's the mellower of the two, and is much less likely to use a person's legs as a ladder. He'll sit beside you or on your lap, but he's not especially thrilled to be picked up. He'll put up with it all right; it's just not his favourite thing in the world

Tom... ah, Tom. Dad should have named him Edmund Hillary. He's a climber. I have a picture of him from a few weeks ago that I never posted, happily sitting on top of the rocking chair after climbing the upholstery. Dad's since taken the cushions off the chair. They would have been totally destroyed otherwise. Tom loves to climb. Chairs, bedskirts, legs... and the problem with the leg thing is that he'll take a running leap at you and catch you half way up. He gets a certain look in his eye, and you know you just can't do a thing about what's going to happen next. He got me good in the knee the other night. That's fun. Or, you know, not.

 Now, having said that, he's also the cuddlier of the two. He loves being held, and he'll tell you that he'd like to be picked up. And you'd better listen, because otherwise you're going to be climbed (see last paragraph).

They both still really seek out people, and I'm hoping that doesn't change as they get older.

Tom's still very much the ringleader. First to the food, first to the toys, and first to get into trouble. He recently figured out that he can use the dining room chairs to get on to the table, and from there he can get to the kitchen counter. Apparently he got a fairly decisive warning about that, but I'm sure it's not the last one. Dad had told me that Bob recently figured out how to unravel the toilet roll, but after having seen Tom doing the exact same thing myself, I'd be willing to bet that it was Tom who taught Bob.

I'm getting the feeling that these guys will end up being long haired, or at least medium. They both have weirdly long hair on their haunches. It'd be kind of funny if the back hair stayed long and they turned out to be short haired otherwise. Cat mullet.

Bob's coat is a bit coarser and thicker than Tom's. It almost seems like a double coat already. Maybe he'll turn into a pretend Norwegian Forest Cat or something. That'd be all right.

Anyway, there's your cats for today. I actually took a handful of yard pictures this weekend, so it won't be all cats all the time here for a while. Ok, so there'll be some cats.

What's the internet without cats?



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