Thanks bluesfan

I finally found an intelligent person at the Council. They don't do much apart from checking that cats have been desexed - feral breeding cats are a problem so that is fair enough.

She walked me through various things which I stuffed up trying to do it on-line.

They are now officially registered - yay
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This is a bit self-indulgent.

Blackberry and WaiWaiaa have decided that curling up together beside the chess board in my computer room/study is a good plan
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Not self-indulgent at all Kiwi. They are adorable and brightened my day. You must be having so much fun with them!

They are quite lovely now, Kiwi. Are they knocking about your chess pieces yet?

Yes mrsD, sometimes when they are rushing about like mad things they will land on the chessboard with a thump, scattering the pieces far and wide. <Sigh>.

In the last week or so they have both decided that sleeping on this laptop is a good plan. Sometimes they turn it off because they are on top of the CPU cooling vent. Other times they manage to disconnect my in-house WiFi network, other times they manage to open random applications - Word and Excel seem to be their favourites. <Mutters>.

Yhat is funny!

Weezie sometimes fiddles with our landline phone
Plays messages and deletes them.
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Blackberry and Waiwaiaa are doing well, though they are not impressed by the weather (neither am I); over the last month 35+ C/100% humidity has not been fun.

Maybe because of this they both got infested with fleas. Waiwaiaa scratched herself to the extent of exposing bare flesh on both sides of her neck
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The vet nurse recommended a product which she assured me was both safe and effective. I dislike unnecessary medication in both cats and people so wanted to know more.

She gave me a pamphlet. It looks OK; the active ingredient specifically inactivates insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors so I gave it a try.

It seems to have worked; investigative use of my flea comb has shown no new fleas and new fur is growing on Waiwaiaa's neck lesions
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Kiwi,

I'm glad the kittens are doing better. Kitties seem prone to a flea induced dermatitis which is just miserable. It's good the medication is working.