Some kitties got spoiled!

Here we are, heading into the last 4 days (weekend included) of my Christmas break. What the heck happened to the other 7 days?

The best part of Christmas was watching "some kitties" have fun with the goodies "Santa" brought them.

Christmas Eve I let them open one present: an inexpensive sheepskin I had ordered from Ikea, on sale to boot. I always swore I'd never buy a sheepskin--the poor sheep!--but it's "funny" what one will do for one's fur companions. Of course Nicki was the first to check it out.

You can just seen Derry, tentatively approaching, below.

 

 

This has been a hit. Most of the time I have it on my couch, sometimes the ottoman, and both boys have cuddled up on it in turn, nice and cosy.

Then late in the morning I let the boys have their presents from "Santa." (Note: I happen to know that Santa put catnip in the stocking, hence the reason Nicki, then finally Derry, had so much fun with the stocking itself!)

With apologies for the fuzzy pics; I was using my little p&s in sports mode, and the flash doesn't engage in that mode.

 

 Derry and his new mouse, below. He chased that thing all over the main level.

Some kitties crashed in the afternoon, after all the excitement!

 

Then yesterday when I got home from errands, I found two deliveries on my step: a stair "condo" primarily for Nicki, ordered from Wayfair, and a heated pet blanket from Amazon.ca. (I've jumped on the heated bed band wagon, at last.)

 

The pet stair "condo" was a pre-Christmas sale, seemed like a good deal. It's actually quite heavy, 30 pounds, I think, and very sturdy (which is why I ordered it, I didn't want cardboard). I have it in the basement, in front of the stacked Rubbermaid containers that Nicki likes to sleep on. (I have thick blankets on top.) 

Nicki doesn't seem to have difficulty getting up and down per se, but I've noticed that when he sleeps on the taller stack now, he'll take the easier way down--step onto the lower level first,  then to the floor. So I hope the steps will offer an even easier way of getting up and down, if he wants that. Both boys have been up and on them, of course, but I don't yet know if Nicki is choosing them as a way up to his sleeping spots.

The other item is the heated pet bed, below. 

I have it on a stool in front of the patio door right now, and both boys have curled up there, though neither has stayed on it for hours.

I won't leave it plugged in, even on its lowest setting, while I'm out of the house, though. It probably would be fine, but I always think "what if," and won't take a chance something might happen. But they can enjoy warming their aging bones while I'm home, if they wish. They're not lacking cosy spots to curl up in!

Example: I found Derry in the guest room a day or two ago, below. Now, that's cosy!

So that's our Christmas wrap-up! (Uh, no pun intended.) I hope you've also had a nice holiday, that your fur family got spoiled a bit too.

Enjoy the remaining few days of 2018, and may 2019 be kind and merciful to us all. 

Peace.