Go away !!

Tonight I went to take Laxey's photo but as you see it seems that he did not want it taken.




Really I took his photo cos he looked so cute.

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.

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?"

Kitten update

Hello to all my readers.

I have been asked to put more pictures up here of our new kitten.

He has grown in the few days we have had him so here is a picture taken on the 3rd of May. This is the only decent, recent picture I have of him but as you will see he has grown since the 29th of April when I first took hi picture.

We have decided to call him Laxey from a tradition. We had a ginger cat years ago called Ramsey. We named him Ramsey as he was born on Tuesday, 2nd June which was Ramsey Sprint day during TT week on the Isle of Man. My sister later got a cat and called him Douglas keeping an Isle of Man theme and so this little fella is to be named Laxey from a small town between Douglas and Ramsey on the East coast.

I will take more pictures and put them up as he grows. Maybe I will get more readers because of him.

A surprise addition to the family

Hi,

I have not posted here for a while as I have been busy working on the house. Updates can still be found at www.paxo.me.uk.

Yesterday, 28th April, my wife Sue went to take the rubbish out. She came back a bit excited and said "there is a kitten next to the bins on a piece of straw and if we don't take it in it will die".

I knew there was no way that I could say no, she had made her mind up that we were to look after it so I just told her to go and get it.

It is about two weeks old and should really still be with it's mother. It can not lap and we have to feed it with a bottle. It needs to be fed about every two hours so last night we were woken up to feed it.

Have a look at the pictures to see how it is. I will post more pictures as it grows.