A new member to our family

We now have a new member of our family. The ones we created many years ago have flown the nest  quite awhile ago and have even started their own family.
 I kid Elizabeth that her maternal instinct has kicked in and made her desire to start another family. She has been telling me that she has desired to get a pet kitten for company. Does this mean that I am not good company anymore?
 My wife saw an add in one of the stores for kittens to be given away, already to leave their family and ready for battle. She phoned the people and the long and short of it all is that on Monday morining we obtained a seven week old male kitten. It has been many years since we had a pet and I, personally have been out of touch looking after any living thing much smaller than myself so this is a challlenge to both of us.
 The first day was no problem as looking after him was easy because he hid most of the day and we weren't sure where he was. Eventually he showed up in the evening when we coaxed him out of hiding with some food. Food seems to be a universal tempter of most beings.  By the end of the evening he was running around like he had lived here for ever.

  Next morning he started to loosen up even more and started to accept the fact that he is going to live here forever and it was time to enjoy his surroundings.
We have had him almost one whole week and he is starting to grow on us. We are starting to feel like he is a part of our family for the most of our lives and not just 6 days.
 It is a challenge for us to get used to him as he learns to get used to us. The cats that I have been in company with  in the past have been quite used to sitting on my lap but Morris is not one of these as yet.

I told Elizabeth that one reason I was willing to have a pet is that he can come with us as a companion for us on trips with our camper. As well I have stated that I want him to be our guardian animal for our unit to stop unwanted intruders from entering our domain.

I built a scratching post for Morris and he has found this much to his amusement to be able to view the horizon from where he likes to sit.







Over the last few days that we have had Morris, we have had a few visitors in our home. He is getting a chance to meet his siblings (our daughters and grandson) but he is finding it a little trying to get used to strangers. The only people he has known in his young life have been his brother, sister, mother and his original owners. Well, his world is expanding now and will do so more in the future.

 So much for our expanded family. Family is a large part of life and a very enjoyable part of life at that. However we are looking forward to many more days, weeks, months and years of enjoyment with our now offspring,
      Morris,  welcome to the Blakey family of Kirkland Lake,Ontario
Wilf and Elizabeth Blakey