Here Kitty, Kiddy

It has been the coldest January here in Utah since 1949 ( or something like that). It has been cold!! We have two cats... Short Tail and Long Tail. I know we aren't very creative in the name dept. They mostly live outside year round, but with the frigid temps this winter we didn't have the heart to make them stay outside.

One morning after having the cats were in all night I discovered that one or both of the cats had used the back of our leather couch as a scratching post. I was livid. They also had been using the sand under the gas fireplace logs as a litter box. Zero tolerance for this!! Especially when they had all they needed ( littler box and other crappy couches) in the house.
I jumped on KSL and found this nifty and inexpensive Cat Tower with scratching post! We had quite the adventure trying to catch them and then locked them in the laundry room with their new "fort". They wanted nothing to do with it. So I thought it must need to be cleaned and deodorized so it can be "theirs". So Mr. C and I cleaned it up real well and we went down to the pet store and bought some Catnip spray for it to attract and relax the cats. Now Short tail likes it a bit more, but Long Tail still wants nothing to do with it.

 So in the long run all that work and time spent on a new Cat Tower has been well received by the kids instead of the kitties. B plays on it with cars. I found A and her friends using it as a doll house one day.Jess loves to climb it despite the heart attack it gives her mother and Mr/ c has multiple uses for it. Who knew? Who knew!

Short Tail is very social and has taken to laying in the girl's bathroom sink while they get ready for bed. She loves to drink out of the tap too! Funny cat!