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German Engineering – or how to potty train a cat
Our cats are now almost 6 months. Gretel has been sterilized and therefore, they are outside quite a lot. However, they still have not been going outside to the loo.
It was definitely going to be too much, so on Saturday I decided to take the litter tray outside. When the cats went to their usual place in the house looking for the tray, we carried them outside. And, they both did their poo outside. Yippee!
Wow, what a progress.
Now, I was worried that it might rain. So I used my imagination and engineering skills (if you didn’t know, I have a mechanical engineering degree 
) to build a poo tent. My wife gave me some practical hints too. Maybe not quite a portaloo but surely something all other cats will envy our cats for, don’t you think. Let’s just hope the wind does not pick up.
German Engineering I guess, hehe.
Btw, have you seen the new matrix style Volkswagen Ad on TV?
Catflaps
Hello,
Inside, from kitchen to living room, we got a brown standard cat flap so we can close the door and keep the smells in the kitchen and the cold air too. Very handy.
And, on the outside we have a cat flap that is activated via micro-chip. We tagged our babies last week, so only them can get in whilst other cats have to stay out. RFID par excellence I remember working on some of those RFID technologies in an internship way back in 2002 – it really found a purpose in everyday life then!
Whilst Hansel is quite confident in using the flap by now and loves to be outside, Gretel is a little shy. But surely, that will change.
Here are some impressions.
why is my blog so quiet
…because our house is soo busy.
Kittens everywhere. We locked them in the spare bedroom for a few days but let them out last night – first time. Here are the shots from my phone, them playing about. Crazy cute things
We surely add more pictures soon to Picasa and Facebook. The ones below are taken with my camera, so apologies for the quality.
Kittens! First impressions!
Here are a few pictures.
The first is a huge spider web this morning in the garden.
The second is the spider after we had to remove the web, it was blocking the “entrance” to our garden.
The 3rd and 4th are our new arrivals: Hansel and Gretel!
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- spider web
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- spider on the wall
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- Hansel
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- Gretel on arrival
Our family is growing – update 1
After all the technical hype of last week, I am back at home for the weekend and keep busy with my family. As you know I am married, and as married life is, you start thinking about growing the family.
Update 1 I want to call this….
No, no kiddies yet but “kitties”. My wife and I decided, in order to get used to getting up at night, feeding at certain times of the day and to take on responsibility for small creatures, to grow the family by 1 or even 2 kittens. Latter depends on what we can find
So, yesterday we started with the essentials and went to Pets at Home.
What we got – and please let us know what we might still need. This is a first one for us:
- Book about cats
- Transport basket
- cat nip
- kitten food and dishes
- litter tray with “accessories”
- kitten collar
- toys
- scratching post and climber
And, what we are hoping to get are similar ones to those, as kittens of course:
Haensel?
Gretel?
I keep you posted. Hopefully we have them by next weekend!
Volker
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