i wanted some outdoor pics for their 9th b day, but as soon as i finished my sunday shoot, a really bad sandstorm kicked in.
sand was in my mouth, my nose, my eyes, while it sandblasted my skin.
from indoors, i could barely see. visibility was sometimes out to 6 car lengths, but other times 4.
this is what happens when you ge no snow or rain for 150 days.
the weeds die n without roots to hold the sand, it flies into the air, especially with winds of 50mph.
anyway, i'm not sure what i have here. drifter is a feral cat that lives indoors.
she's feral in the sense she doesn't want much cuddling, but she only goes out for an hour or two everyday.
she won't leave the kits for longer that.
so, she seems to be a house cat. she is comfy indoors, so the word feral doesn't fit.
she decided this house is home.
she has a comfy weatherproof den someplace, but when she chose a place to give birth, she wanted to be here with me n my food.
she trusts me.
not other people tho. the only human she met she wanted to attack.
when kits are involved, she will take on something that's 20 times as big as she is.
size doesn't matter. only my body between her n that repairman stopped a fight.
you know, i never realized how well behaved drifter is, until i met this unruly group of kits.
if i say NO, drifter stops whatever she's doing. if i call her BAD DOG, she hides in the bath.
in fact, she never breaks rules, without any training.
outside of her dislike of cuddling, she is the perfect cat.
we fight, but only like any family fights.
the kits, on the other hand maraud thru the house, causing havoc when they pass.
when i wake in the morn, i have a major cleaning job every single day. they like messing the living room .
if they can't find stuff to mess up here, they will bring stuff from the other end of the house.
today, it was dozens of cleaning patches they wanted in here.
i've given up even trying to enforce my rules.
i have a no cat on the bed rule that i no longer enforce.
it took 3 times to get drifter to understand that.
but, i've tossed the kits off my bed hundreds of times n they haven't noticed.
i just can't keep them off.
worse, now that there's likely to be a pile of kits asleep on my bed, drifter goes up there to tend them.
right now, it's no big deal because they are indoor cats n clean.
i made the rule because drifter loves rolling in the dirt. but i bet she teaches them to rollin the dirt n then i'll fight.
i see no way to train kits. they ignore shouting or my angry voice.
they aren't afraid of me.
i have always voice trained dogs n it works with drifter, so i assumed it would work with kits.
it doesn't.
i don't get angry because they are babes but they are very trying.
force is out unless i see aggression.
i'm out of ideas.
has anyone trained kits?
