I still have my collar and last night I let Äiti adjust it because it has to fit properly and I want it to be visible to everyone so they can all see that it says King Cat. Äiti has bought collars for Veli Stran and Sisko Aila but they are not nearly so nice, which is only right. They have not had them put on yet as Äiti hasn't quite worked out how to take three of us out at once. However she has been spending time on zooplus.de ordering more cat trees for us. About time! We need at least one each, especially now as even Velit Lewis and Harris use them. And it is also about time we had some better balcony furniture. Afterall, when we go out in the morning to sniff the air, we need to be able to look out over my domain.

I, Punapippuri of Muhos Fields, am proudly wearing a collar. Well, sometimes I feel proud as I think it looks really smart and Äiti says if I keep it then maybe I can go outside with her; but other times I think it is awful and I put my paws out with claws extendend and hit anything in sight. So I am not sure what I will do. At least it is not the red Harness from Hell; instead it is a smart blue colour and says 'kitty cat' which Äiti has told me is English for 'King of all Cats' so maybe it is okay. Just so long as no one else is allowed to wear one, and they all know their place. And it would be good to go outside and GET THAT SQUIRREL.

We have felt the sun on our fur today and spent the morning on our balcony. Veli Harris was hiding but Veli Lewis came and sat on a chair with me, and as I was in a good mood I let him stay.
Veli Stran was very happy and kept waiting by the door to be let out. We need some better furniture though so we can all lie down and sunbathe. It is a shame that Äiti cannot remove the roof as well so we could get more sun for longer, but I suppose she might be a little upset if we asked her to move so we could have a south facing balcony.

I was locked in a cupboard for hours and hours and hours. When Äiti finally came home I had barely enough energy to shout at her to let me out. Admittedly I did get a lovely cuddle but that's hardly the point. Veli Stran says I should not sneak into cupboards without Äiti knowing, and I should 'take responsibility'. Huh!

When Äiti finally woke up this morning she decided it was warm enough to have the balcony door open so Veli Stran, Sisko Aila and I went outside to sit in the sun. Unfortunately Äiti has not been organised enough to give us some good furniture to sit lie on and we have horrible boxes. She has assured us that a highly skilled carp+enter will be coming to sort it all out, but in the meantime I think we shall just be grateful that we can go out. Veli Stran has to be careful because of his lungs so our visits outside are monitored carefully. They also seem to be restricted by horrible netting which means we cannot get perfect views of the snacks that fly past us. We are not sure what to do about that as it is a big disappointment that we cannot be joined on the balcony by linnut ja oravat. So instead I brought my favourite mouse out to liven things up.

Oh I am so tired. My favourite mouse has made me run up and down the stairs so many times today! I catch it and then show it to Äiti, and she picks it up and it leaps out of her hands and I have to bring it back. She really should hold on to it tighter. I have done this for the last few nights, just before Äiti goes to bed. But I am a big strong healthy kollikissa and the naughty little mouse always gets caught, even on the fifteenth dash down the stairs. During the day it hides under the sofa and I wish Äiti would get it out when she comes home from work, not half an hour before she wants to go to sleep!

Sometimes Äiti leaves the house late, and we like these mornings as she tries to clean - I always chase the brush and then point out where the floor is still dirty. I have also been chasing Sisko Aila because she is still very annoying. Today though she was more interested in a supply of catnip.
I wonder if she has a little addiction problem with it, as after I have beaten her up and made her squeal like a girlie, she always runs over to our catnip toys. This is a massage centre which everyone has ignored until today when it became Sisko Aila's favourite. Poor Veli Harris walked past her afterwards so she began picking on him and play fighting.
In the meantime Veli Stran has just taken everything in his usual calm way and he was trying to snooze in the sun.
Veli Lewis is still shy. He is often hiding now but when Äiti goes out he comes to look out of the windows. He has had some bad furballs and has a very nervous stomach so even I am trying to be kind to him. He and Veli Harris spent four years locked in a shed and only seeing humans when they were fed, so they are very nervous and all the space here can spook them easily.

Sisko Aila was being greedy with the catnip cigar so I think it is okay to post this picture of looking like a real catnip druggie! And then Äiti caught her mid lick in this photo.
She has again been competing for attention. I wish Äiti would give her extra attention like she gave me yesterday -I am still traumatised. The horrible harness came out and I was locked in it. She then took me into the garden which was interesting and I would have climbed trees and chased birds if I hadn't have been caught by the evil leash. Äiti hopes I get used to it. I have other ideas. I was in a very bad mood afterwards and very unsettled. As a result there was an embarrassing incident and Äiti had to wash my tail at 5am this morning. I think it serves her right, but probably the least said about it the better.
She has also been trying to comb me - I quite like using the comb to clean my teeth. But she says that I have to be neat and tidy, not wild and hairy. Even Veli Stran joined in, which really was not fair.
He wanted to check that the operation had worked because I was in such a temper yesterday (after the harness from hell) that he thought maybe my pieneä palloja had grown back. What a cheek!

Äiti has finally got a new keyboard so I can blog properly again. I am here sitting on it. Today she was going to leave us to go out birdwatching. She said she was going to take photos. These are no good to us as we cannot eat them. I also think kurkia might be a little tough to chew and we would prefer the little birds on the feeder. More of a tasty snack. I am glad to see she has hung a couple outside and we are waiting for the cabaret to start.
There is unrest here at the moment. Sisko Aila-Islay has been sleeping next to Äiti in MY orange bed. She says it was hers before it was mine but that doesn't count, and now she is leaving me to sleep on the sheet. Admittedly I get closer access for toe biting, but it is still not fair. Also she can see me every time when I wake up and want a cuddle - as does often happen because I am just a little kollikissa who still needs to have love and attention, even if half the time I am tearing up the hand that tickles me. Sisko Aila has become more assertive in this new house and I don't like it. Veli Stran had to wait ages before she had finished with a new catnip cigar last night. And this picture shows the torture I faced when my favourite mouse ran over to her.
I had to pretend I wasn't interested before she finally walked off.

I am liking this new house a lot. The floors are nice and skiddy and I can run fast up and down the stairs when my favourite mouse runs away from me. Äiti is annoyed that while hopping across her laptop I broke one of the keys and within half an hour Sisko Aila had spilt a whole cup of tea across the keyboard of the other computer. We are just playful, energetic cats who need to flex out muscles, and she should realise that sometimes things get broken. That is life. However she has said that she's going to take the money she loses from the deposit for the old flat out of our food and toy budget. This is not fair: afterall I only wrecked the wallpaper in three out of the four rooms so it could have been worse.

What is the problem ? If there is paper on the walls, it is surely there for us cats to pull off! What other purpose does it serve? I do not understand Äiti and her silly fuss about a few pieces of chewed up paper on the stairs.

At last! The computer has been put together and I may contact my adoring public to tell them all about how absolutely ihana and ace my new home is.
But first, the struggle of the last few days, which I must now try to realise was a terrible trial I had to deal with in order for greater riches to happen. Sisko Aila-Islay said it harshly when she told me to 'get a grip'. She can talk - I've seen her sneaking to Äiti for extra cuddles.
I of course get these cuddles all the time.
We were all 'herded' (there is no other word for it) into an empty room for four hours and all we could hear was thumping and lifting. Äiti then let us out and the flat was empty - except for a few toys. Nothing to destroy. Not much food either. Then we were left alone. She came back later that day and I was so tired I fell asleep on her so she stayed hours! Then we were alone all night, until well beyond breakfast time the next day. Then we were grabbed -yes grabbed- and put into horrible crates, which were larger than the usual Box of Doom. I was very worried because I thought we were all being driven off to have nasty operations, so we all decided to sing very loudly in the car. Even Veli Lewis. I also tried to free us all by throwing myself very hard against the box - with my superhero strength I thought it would break open but I was feeling a little weak after not enough breakfast.
We drove for many long minutes (Velit Harris and Lewis were really scared as they thought we were going to lentoasema) and then we arrived at oma rivitalo. Now this is a much better deal than the last place and maybe I will not rip the wall paper this time. I was very pleased that all our favourite toys were already there and we had clean toilets and lots of beds to sleep in.
The windows have better things to look at and we have a balcony. This has netting on it - Äiti does not trust us not to jump out! We do have a terrace and garden and I am plotting how to get out as I think there are squirrels I can chase out there.
We all have so many places to hide. Veli Stran stayed here while he watched Äiti unpack.
I have discovered it is really fun to sit at the top of the stairs and biff everyone who goes past.
Veli Harris is still shy and decided to check Tessie-kilpikonna was okay. He really is very kind and gentle.
Of course not everything is in its correct place yet and Äiti keeps putting this cushion in the cat tree bowl. I have been moving it for months but she still hasn't learnt that it goes right in the middle of the floor.
None of us are sure about this new eating arrangement: 6 bowls in a row in the kitchen. And only two dried food troughs in the whole house. I hope we will not starve particularly as we are getting much more exercise running up and down stairs. The sauna is nicer here too: all 5 Britcats were in it until Äiti switched it on for me to have my sauna! Then they ran off. They have so many more hiding places now, and we are all very happy. Äiti isn't getting much sleep because we are so happy!

There are boxes everywhere and we are all a little fed up. Even our favourite toilets are packed and we now have to go in horrible open trays. This is not good and I have tried to make my point by flicking the sand everywhere. Apparently it is 'not for long', but we will be all alone tomorrow in an empty room. Now, I do love perheni but sharing a tiny room with them is not my idea of fun (especailly as Sisko Aila will be there). We have been told 'it will be worth it' but unless I have my favourite mouse and plenty of personal space so I can pounce and play and sleep with all of me stretched out, I shall not be happy. Oh, and my own food bowls of course. And blanket. And scratching post. Veli Stran is telling me I can have all this if I stay here on my own while everyone else moves - which is not very kind of him so I hope it is a joke. He is not very happy as his hiding place under all the boxes has been shut off so he cannot escape there for his naps. I am quite happy to let him sleep next to me but for some reason he doesn't like too - he says I move around too much. But I am catching poroa and hirvea in my dreams so of course I move - I am an athletic hunter even in my sleep.

I am back! I hope I have now fully recovered from the savage day on Thursday. I have been taking the opportunity to sleep a lot and I haven't really felt like destroying the wallpaper as much. Maybe the occasional bite of a tasty toe, and playing with perheni which has been fun as they have kept playing rather than running away. Sisko Aila has hardly moaned or hissed at me too. So I guess life is a little more relaxed. Well, it would be if everything was not changing place and being put in to boxes. This house is a mess and Äiti needs to do something about it. These are no conditions for us to be living in! Our food bowls have been moved and this is an outrage. Luckily they were not so very far away, but even so......

This is Stranraer here. The young squirt has gone very quiet and wobbly but asked me to blog away for his 'adoring fans'. He says he is totally unaffected by the trauma of miaowing desperately all night from the cold dark dungeon of the sauna. He says he was big and brave in the cars and in no way struggled so desperately to get out that he tangled up his blanket. And of course he did not leap up in such joy at seeing Äiti come to get him that he hit his head on the cage. And when she cuddled him of course he did not have to be peeled out of her jacket to be put in the basket so she could at least leave the vet's. Oh no, he is Punapippuri of Muhos Fields and has taken this in his stride - which I have to report is a very sore, slow walk at the moment. I have made sure all is well with a brotherly sniff and lick of his bottom And I did want to check that his bits had really gone - afterall the thought of little baby Punapippurit is more than any of us can cope with. Let's just hope he calms down as well - we could all do with a break.

Why so many cardboard boxes for my favourite mouse to go in? And what about those pieces of card - of course there are no bite marks anywhere (I have my paws crossed). But I did have good fun with some Ikea receipts - I pounced and tore the routsalainen paper and ate some of it (yeuch!). Then Äiti got cross as she could not work out how much money she was owed as it was not all her lasku. Hehehehe. But then she told her friend that instead of paying her back she could pay for my operation tomorrow. Voi voi. Not funny. I am now going to go to hide myself and my iso palloja and hope that tomorrow never happens.

I have had an ace night - running around inside a cardboard box, tearing it apart, biting toes, stripping wallpaper and then I discovered a great place to pee is the bathroom floor! Mind you, my lovely puddle was rather yellow and smelly in a funny new way so I do not know what's happening. And this morning I caught a bird. Well, I would have done if the window wasn't there - I was right on target and nearly had him. Oh, I am such a wonderful cat and I love swaggering around, ruling the world.