He likes to hang out in his safe space, explore a two foot square area, run back to his safe place, yowl about what he discovered in the new area, and then come back to explore two more feet. As long as we’re sitting still he continues his adventures. He had done the whole house, but after he got scared of the chair, he wants to come explore all over again from the living room forward. I hid some treats around where I know he’s headed, and he gets excited to find a little feast like a proper hunter.

He’s eating about what the recommended feeding amount is for him now, and I’m glad about that! He’s not eating every last bite and making me wonder if it’s enough, but he’s eating enough for me not to worry that he has something wrong with his appetite. He likes to eat most when one of us is in the room with him, and we kind of have to stand around and not really do anything; just be a lookout minion. He is starting to go get some cronches on his own, though.

We wound up going with Iams kitten food. The extra fancy brands DIDN’T HAVE ANY KITTEN FOOD VERSIONS! UGH! But it seems like the Iams brand is good for them too, so we didn’t have to go with a food that just isn’t BAD for him, and that pleases me because I know he’s getting the nutrition he needs with Iams. He needs kitten food until he’s a year old to get the right vitamins and such.

The treats we’ve been giving him are the moist Pounce brand in seafood medley flavor, and Whiskas Temptation crunchy Tantalizing Turkey treats. He loves the moist treats, and I break them in half with my fingernail before giving him one or two to kind of coax him to like to investigate kitty friendly areas and do the ‘go here, not there’ type of thing.

OMG he’s so cute running around with these cheeseballs, though. He doesn’t want to eat them, just punch them all over the house. Hours of entertainment, and one cheeseball can apparently last a couple days before it’s collected enough dust to make me swipe it and offer up a new cheeseball. He’s been picking them up once they get cornered and taking it back (in his mouth) to the center of the floor to start the dance all over again. It’s so freakin’ funny and adorable to see him sprint by with a giant orange cheeseball clashing with his little gray face! I’m trying to get him to play more with all his zillion other toys, though, because I don’t know if he should constantly be licking cheeseball dust off his paws on a daily basis.

What are your kitty’s favorite toys and treats? Link to them for us so we can add them to our list of considered kitteh fun!