New Bathroom

The bathroom in the first floor was so old and horrible, I could not even bring me to take a picture of it before we renovated it.
I put the design together myself, and I am really pleased with how it turned out. I even had some really smart designs like putting in a space for a washing machine, a big cupboard with a mirror door so I can see the back of my head, and the piece the resistance: Cat toilet room.

Take a look at the pictures:

Hurricane spa-bath, toilet, and to the left is the cat toilet cupboard.

Inside the cat toilet, there is a opening in the wall for the cats to go in, there is a motion activated light, and a fan I can turn on if the smell gets intense. There was even room for a big drawer on top and a little shelf. 

Shower with rainfall and normal shower head, and a sink with drawers. The mirror cupboard has lights integrated on the sides.

Here you can see the mirror with lights and also the high mirror cupboard behind me, so when I open the door I can angle it perfectly to see myself from behind. Very practical when doing my hair!
(The look was for a Christmas-themed party, I was Satan's little helper..) 

 The sink, drawers, mirror cupboard over the sink and the long mirror closet is all from Ikea.

My cats!

It is time to talk about cats!

Anubis on my lap.

I love cats! I have always loved cats. I also loves dogs though, and animals in general. I grew up with cats, dogs, and birds, I have owned rats (but became allergic..) and when I bought my apartment in 2005, I got my first cat that was entirely my own. Tigris is her name, but we often call her “Tigern” witch means “the Tiger”, and that is of course because of her beautiful colours. She has a special type of fur that is really thick and soft, and people that are allergic to cats tell me that they react less to her than to other cats. I do not know exactly when she was born, cause she was born in a barn on a farm. But suddenly the farmer could not find the kittens, and he thought they all had been killed by a fox or a territorial male cat. Then after a few weeks, he found Tigris walking around in the yard, she was a lone survivor, and he took her in and fed her cat-formula, and when she was big enough (about 5 weeks) I went to pick her up. She adored me right away by not being afraid at all, and started playing with my feet after a few minutes. The Tiger is a suitable name not only because of her colours, she is a feisty and fun cat. I held her in my arms, and she almost went right to sleep, she had my heart from then on.

Little Tigris when I got her.

She was so tiny!

She likes to play.

And then, in the summer of 2007, she was away from home for a few days. I got worried, cause she usually comes home at least every other day. But after three and a half day, she got home, and I was so happy. After a few weeks, we could see why she had been so long away from home, she had gotten herself pregnant!! This is perfect, because I wanted her to have a litter before I had to sterilize her. And I had friends and family lined up ready to adopt. She had four little kittens, three male and one female. The female (Nala) and the male (Mowgli) had short fur with blended colours, the last males (Anubis and Buster Phus) had long, thick fur. Anubis was black and dark brown (only visible in direct sunlight) and Buster had a darker, but similar colours to Tigris. They were all healthy and sweet, and my brother and his girlfriend adopted Nala, my good friend Heidi adopted Mowgli, and my other friend Heidi adopted Buster. Anubis I had to keep for myself, cause he had been injured when he still was young (the vet guessed it was Tigris when she tried to lift him), and he got a wound on his shoulder. We went to the wet, who stitched it, and gave me instructions to care for it. I had to rinse it a few times a day, and Anubis was not as active and a bit sleepy. I was really afraid that he was going to die, but after taking good care of him, he became active and vibrant again. And I had fallen in love with him, and I could not bear to part with him. So that’s the story of how I got Anubis.

Tigris with her litter, can you spot the four kittens?

Anubis and Mowgli

Anubis is still a kitten, and cuddles with his mother in the window.

Adorable Anubis!

This is taken at the same time as the other, he just looks bigger face on.

Tigris is really photogenic!

Anubis has the same thick and soft fur like his mother, only much longer! And he has a mane like a tiger! The fur is so incredible nice to feel, I just want to bury my face in it. But, after Tigris had all the kittens, I got allergic, and I had to restrict how much contact I had with them. That means they are not allowed in the bedroom (this is really sad to me, cause Tigris always lay down on my chest and purrs when I go to sleep, and that made me go to sleep), and I have to try not getting cat hair into my eyes. But I still cuddle with them, and they lie on me and everything, cause I will never abandon my cats. If I have to take a pill every day to get to have them, then so be it!

Anubis has started to mimic this, nice and cozy!

Tigris loves being near us, preferably on top!

I live on the first floor of my building, so I have a cat-flap in the balcony door, and they can easily jump up and down from my balcony to the ground. My cats can come and go as they wish. In the winter, they stay mostly inside, and Tigris is a really indoor cat. She can go outside for short excursions to look at the scenery from our balcony, but mostly she stays inside. Anubis is more outside, and when he comes home, he usually mjaus loud and nagging to tell us that he is home. Anubis really loves mjauing. Unlike Tigris, witch is quite silent, and if she mjaus, it is more like a squeak. It is really adorable. My cats are really nice tempered and have never been aggressive against me or anyone else. They are wary of strangers, but I take that as a good sign. I don’t want them to run up to strangers outside, who knows what kind of crazy people there can be.

Here are some adorable videos of my cats:

Catflap!

I just have to share my newest gadget with you all. It is a Sureflap catflap. It has a chip-reader, and it reads the identity-chip the vet placed in the neck of my cats. I have programmed it to only let my cats in! No more worries about other cats coming into my flat and tearing the place down. And no more having to let them in and out all the time. Thank the gods for that, because my black cat, Anubis, has the most annoying meaows ever!! And he always wants to be where he is not, outside if he is inside, and the other way around. Almost needed a doorman just for him! Good thing the catflap takes care of that. And my cats are really good at using it, a bit cautious at first, but then they discovered it was freedom, and now they run in and out all the time.

It sits in our balcony-door.



Anubis coming inside.