There are two cardboard boxes in our living room that are both heavily used by the cats. Well, by certain of the cats.

There’s the Scratch Lounge, which packs multiple cardboard honeycomb slabs into a box that serves as a place for cats to scratch as well as a place for Kiko to pour herself into for those extended cat naps. I’ve seen all the cats do their claws on it, although Kiko is seen there most often.

Then there’s the Amazon delivery box with its nest of torn-up brown paper. Kali is in charge of ripping up the paper and creating a perfect cat nest, and she then occupies it for hours at a time. Kiko watches carefully until Kali leaves the box, and that’s when Kiko run over, hops in, and expands to fill the space. I don’t think that I’ve seen Kinikini and Bessie ever go into the box, although they can often be found carefully observing its occupant.

Let’s see. We had another unfortunate incident Tuesday evening. Meda went out into the garage to grab something from our spillover kitchen storage, and Kinikini ran out into the garage when Meda opened the door to come back into the kitchen. He usually is ready to come back inside within about 3 minutes, but when Meda looked out and called, he stayed out of sight. And, after that, he was forgotten. It wasn’t until early Wednesday morning as I was getting the cats’ breakfasts ready that I noticed he was absent, about the same time that Meda heard a cat crying in the garage, remembered the forgotten cat, and let poor Kinikini back into the house. He was happy to see his breakfast, made a quick stop in one of the litter boxes, and then turned to use for lots of attention and reassurance before reassuming his role as the Alpha Male of the house.

We felt bad. But it’s not the first time he spent the night out there, and the experience is unlikely to seriously deter his future garage explorations.

And now, on to the cats!! I included a series of twofers this week, with cats in different combinations. Lots of good photos this week.

Be sure not to miss the close up of Ms. Kili where you can see a drop of drool just poised to drop from the left side of her mouth (the right when looking at the photo). The tip of her tongue gets into the picture as well.