The Voids' Progress
Apr. 10th, 2020 09:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
When we first brought the voids home, they were really quite hard to tell apart. There are subtle differences in the presence of some white hairs here and there on Neko, and Yami has softer fur, but nothing was useful to distinguish them from six feet away. We put different coloured collars on them to solve the problem. Then we took Neko's collar off after a few weeks, because he was losing hair around his neck.
Two and a half months later, Neko Void has outgrown his sister. He has longer legs and a longer spine, and has generally turned into a sleek, muscular mini-panther. Poor Yami-chan loses all of their wrestling matches now! Neko has also proven to be very well named, because he's a complete glutton who will stretch his neck into anyone else's food the second he's finished his own. Neko-necks has become his new nickname.
Neko 'Look, I'm a Panther!' on top of the cat tree. Yes, we deliberately put the cat toys up there so they have to go up and knock them down again.
Yesterday the SO decided that Yami doesn't need to wear a collar any more and she'd probably prefer to be without it, so he took it off. This morning, I was telling him that Neko had been very quiet all morning, sleeping in one of the cat trees and hadn't moved in hours. 'Well, until now,' he said, clutching a void cat in his arms. So I had to tell him that the void he was holding was Yami, not Neko. 'No,' he said, and began turning the void around, looking for the bits with white hairs, at which point the void let out a long wail of protest and demanded to be set down. The SO conceded I was right then, because while men may not be very observant, the behavioural differences between the two are harder to miss, and Yami will NOT put up with any protracted form of manhandling.
In other news, I've been trying for over a month to get photos or video of Kuro playing with a void cat (usually Neko), but the instant I grab a camera, they stop what they're doing and just stare at me. They do get on, I swear, I just can't prove it!
Two and a half months later, Neko Void has outgrown his sister. He has longer legs and a longer spine, and has generally turned into a sleek, muscular mini-panther. Poor Yami-chan loses all of their wrestling matches now! Neko has also proven to be very well named, because he's a complete glutton who will stretch his neck into anyone else's food the second he's finished his own. Neko-necks has become his new nickname.
Neko 'Look, I'm a Panther!' on top of the cat tree. Yes, we deliberately put the cat toys up there so they have to go up and knock them down again.
Yesterday the SO decided that Yami doesn't need to wear a collar any more and she'd probably prefer to be without it, so he took it off. This morning, I was telling him that Neko had been very quiet all morning, sleeping in one of the cat trees and hadn't moved in hours. 'Well, until now,' he said, clutching a void cat in his arms. So I had to tell him that the void he was holding was Yami, not Neko. 'No,' he said, and began turning the void around, looking for the bits with white hairs, at which point the void let out a long wail of protest and demanded to be set down. The SO conceded I was right then, because while men may not be very observant, the behavioural differences between the two are harder to miss, and Yami will NOT put up with any protracted form of manhandling.
In other news, I've been trying for over a month to get photos or video of Kuro playing with a void cat (usually Neko), but the instant I grab a camera, they stop what they're doing and just stare at me. They do get on, I swear, I just can't prove it!
