Sounds like you've done an EXCELLENT job of raising them -- and if the older woman thinks she's going to have a calm home atmosphere with kittens, she's in for a big surprise (a couple of them, actually)! I hope Kitty and Rusty will be able to adjust and integrate into the furmily. They sound like very nice cats.Kitty and Rusty got tested for diseases and are negative
Both are overweight and I have to put them on a diet. They put a lot of weight on in the late winter / early spring eating mice and moles coming into the building. I am feeding them too much seeing they are also eating mice and moles. My vet told me I did a great job on socializing them and they were much easier to handle. I got them deworming pills. No fleas but it is better safe than sorry.
It fell through with the woman taking them. She thought they would be more like a typical house cat. Kitty and Rusty are used to sleeping all day and spending the night roaming a two story office building getting into things to get at mice and moles. Rusty is a really big cat and capable of opening drawers and cabinet doors. They are somewhat timid of strangers and want to keep their distance. Living in the office building at a construction company is somewhat noisy during the day and Kitty is a little high strung because of it. The woman is an older woman and the cats would have been a hand full for her, she is going to get a couple of kittens and start from scratch. I don't fault her, at least she considered taking them.
Last fall they spent approximately a month and a half at the cottage. They are used to the cottage, it is a much smaller space than the office building so I spent last weekend there with them. It is so quiet there with lots of windows and wildlife, they love it there. After a couple of days Kitty settled down and is not so high strung. After the cottage I took them to my house and put them in a room. My house cat Taz hissed for the first couple of nights but now he just sits by the door to the room they are in. I go in the room frequently so Kitty and Rusty settled in well. Now it is the long process of slowly introducing them to Zoe and Taz, I really hope it works out.
I will post some updated photos when I get the time. Hopefully I can get a photo of all four cats together in the near future.
Aren't they gorgeous! and obviously so bonded.Kitty and Rusty at the Cottage April 2017
Cat nap. Taking a little break from watching the wildlife.
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Slideshow of Kitty and Rusty from living in the steel beams to their time at the cottage last fall.
Taz on Kitty and Rusty's cat tree.
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I dunno about you, but I'm seeing two VERY happy healthy cats!Update. Zoe only hissed at Rusty and Kitty a bit, she keeps her distance from them. Taz gets a lot closer, he hisses and growls at them. Kitty and Rusty ignore Taz. Rusty is extremely docile, he is such a good boy. Rusty has gotten to the point where he will walk right passed Taz growling at him. Taz has started to give up on hissing and growling at them as he is not getting any reaction back.
Last night both Kitty and Rusty were wandering the house. Zoe went to the basement to lay on the couch, Taz sat on a table and watched Kitty and Rusty explore. Taz didn't hiss or growl but he kept an eye on them. I have let Kitty and Rusty out of their room before but I had Zoe and Taz in a room in the basement.
I don't think Kitty misses being in the office building. She appears to like quiet calm places and my work place can be loud and busy. I would say she likes the cottage the best, she seems to be most at ease there. She is getting used to the house and is more and more at ease. I think being trapped in a room has her a little wound up but not as much as when I had her at work.
Rusty appears to miss being at work with me all day. He was very depressed at first but is slowly coming around. He doesn't seem to favor being at the cottage over the house or work, I think he is happy so long as I am close to him. He is slowly getting used to seeing me at night instead of during the day. Starting yesterday he has begun to cry at the door to their room, he wants out and has clued in that crying gets my attention. His cries are so cute, he doesn't howl it is more like talking to me.
I pieced together some videos from my wife's phone that is Kitty and Rusty's safe room at work. Also some video from when I first started letting them out of the room to play in the hallway.