Christmas Day

Christmas day in the Paxton house hold and yes the animals got presents too.

Joy, Ian sister sent them both a present and here they are enjoying them.

Laxey, the cat, got a catnip bag in the shape of a mouse and tried to get into the wrapping before we could stop him. A picture here shows him playing with it.



Cubie got a rawhide Christmas card. As he was a year when we got him and he has always lived outside he was not used to getting presents. At first he just looked at it and did not think he was allowed to have it. A little while later and he realised just what it was for. Here is a picture of him making sure we knew it was his!

I took some video of Laxey chasing and playing with his catnip toy and I will upload some here when I get it out of the camera.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

Look I'm sitting up.

Yesterday Laxey was sitting on my knee asleep.

He then got restless and ended up as you see him in this picture, he did not even move when Sue went for the camera. I think he was trying out sitting like a human.

Today we got Cubie our dog. We did not know how they would react to each other but Laxey stayed away at first but was curious like all cats are. Here I think he is asking himself "Is that a dog ??" Cubie did not know he was there until he got close and looked up, then got a shock.

Here is a picture of Cubie in a typical pose.

Now Cubie has decided it is fun to have a cat around and he wants to play with Laxey. The main trouble is Laxey has only known dogs to chase him and see him as a meal, so while he will get close he does not want to trust the dog. Poor Cubie now barks and tries to get Laxey to play but Laxey is having nothing of it. They need to sort out their differences and decide who is boss.

Another new addition to the family !!

I have been building a new house. As well as refurbishing our house I have built one for our newest member of the family called Cubie.

We have had him ready for us to pick him up for about a year now. He will actually be a year old this month. Because we were living in a flat we could not take him and because we were going to the UK and have been away for so many weekends we have left him with his mother and grandmother.

The picture of the kennel shows it not yet complete but I have finished it and soon he will come and live with us.

I will have a picture of him on here soon so keep coming back.

Been away

Sorry about the long gap between posts and yes you have guessed, Laxey has grown quite a lot.

We have been back to the UK for around five weeks and before that we helped with a children's camp and then when we got back a postponed camp because of major flooding in the area was then put on so we helped with that one too. We have also moved house and did not have the Internet for a while.

Below I will show pictures of Laxey. The first is before we went away and is dated 18th of June.






The next photo is the evening we got him back. I snapped this as he was peering out from behind the chair.

He was a bit timid when he first got back.

He was nearly all black when we first got him but he has earned his stripes and now his kitten fluff has gone and he is a grey tabby.

The next two photos show him stretched out. The second one looks like he is balancing on his ears but it is only the position of the camera. I hope you enjoy the update and the photos.

He is learning !!

As the days go by Laxey is learning as he grows. He now knows to use his litter tray without being put into it, he is washing himself cat like and is also going to sleep in cat like positions.

As you can see from the photo, he is also getting into technology, looking at gadgets and working out how to use them.

One thing he is ignoring so far is drinking milk from a dish. We put his lips near the milk but so far will not lap. Hopefully he will do this soon.

The second picture shows him looking through Sue's legs. He is always curious and if he finds a gap he wants to get into it. He got into this position by pushing his way under one of Sue's legs.

Is it a cat or is it a parrot....

No its Laxey exploring.

He has been growing and not surprising the amount of milk he is drinking.

Tonight though we wondered if he was really a parrot after he crawled up Sue's arm and sat on her shoulder.

He stayed there for quite a while before getting down into her arms and going to sleep.

Keep coming back for more episodes in the life of Laxey the kitten.

Kitten update

Hello to you all, another update of Laxey.

He is growing and gaining stripes. He is also getting his character and walking better. His feet are more co-ordinated.

The first picture shows him feeding from his bottle with Sue. When Sue feeds him he always, at the beginning, raises his front paws in the air as if he is praising God for another feed. He never does this when I feed him. Maybe he is praising God that Sue is feeding him and not me ??!!

The second photo shows him finding his bottle and wondering how to get more milk from it!

It looks like a good picture for a caption contest? Anyone with any ideas can leave them in the comments here.

Sue came up with "I wonder if I could spit it all back in?"