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This is your last reminder that the 2026 Love & Hisses calendars are available for purchase at Zazzle! (The link will live in the sidebar until mid-January or whenever I get around to removing it.)
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ATTENTION PLEASE: Rena H., please report to me – mizrobyn (at) gmail.com – so that I can thank you properly for the cat food you sent!
(And anyone who has sent us something and did NOT get an email from me, please email me so that I can thank you!)
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Thank you all so much for your kind words about Martini; I appreciate y’all so much!
The fosters have improved some, though some of them still sound rough. I think it’ll take more than one round of meds to knock out this crud, but at least they’re all improved SOME.
There are things I don’t think I’ve mentioned, so I’ll mention them now, in list form.
1. When I brought the Britty Bunch home earlier this year, I put 3 in each carrier to make getting them inside easier. NATURALLY one kitten pooped in each carrier and allllll the kittens walked through, rolled in, and otherwise interacted with said poop, and so the very first thing I had to do when I got home was give every single dang kitten a bath. So, new rule: 1 kitten/cat per carrier from here on out, at least when I’m picking them up. When I went to pick up the kittens at Michelle’s, I took 8 carriers with me. I just KNEW at least one kitten was going to poop or pee and that I’d have to give a bath (but at least ONE bath instead of 8 is much more tolerable.) But y’know what? Not a single kitten pooped or peed. It was a little bit of a Christmas miracle.
2. I’m calling these guys the Nightcaps. Y’all had some excellent suggestions (I was partial to Barflies), but I couldn’t decide so I made a list of all the suggestions and made Fred decided. Nightcaps it is!
3. I don’t think I mentioned this in the introductory post, but these guys came to me pre-named. (Otherwise I’d have given them all drink names. And would have avoided using Mimosa!)
4. I promise I will put together a collage of pictures so y’all can have a cheat sheet to refer to, so you’ll know who’s who. The two who are hardest to tell apart are Spritz and Mimosa, which is why Spritz is wearing the purple collar. BUT she’s a floofy girl, so half the time I can’t even see it! I’m hoping to get some really good straight-on pictures of them all this weekend, fingers crossed.
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Fizz is havin’ a think.
Spritz pie! (My favorite!)
Fizz says “Rawr! I’m a llama!”
Fizz (on the back of the couch) and Spritz. These guys are using the wall shelves and beds, and I am VERY pleased about that.
Rum LOVES to lie in the pie plate (or boxes, or the basket, or pretty much anything) with his front paws flopped over the side. I want to squeeze him every time he does it. (PS: Rum pie! My favorite!)
Reese, being floofily gorgeous.
Whiskey juuust out of my reach.
Mimosa having some existential angst, with Rum looking on.
Mimosa and Reese are buddies.
Reese in the window, and Reverb on the floor, strolling about.
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Charlie, up close and personal.
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky) yesterday.
Throw Back Thursday: Reacher, from 2010 (always a favorite.) Merry Christmas!
Throw Back Thursday: Jake in 2011. He was the BEST boy.
Throw Back Thursday: Buffalo Bill in 2020, wearing a wine bottle sweater!
Lunch time! Just a quick mid-day break from the Throw Back Thursday Christmas pics to let y’all know that the fosters are doing well. They’re still snuffly and sneezy, but improving a tiny bit each day. And they are all EXCELLENT eaters!
Throw Back Thursday: Spanky in 2013. The SWEETEST boy! Merry Christmas.
Throw Back Thursday: From 2021 (the first year I took wreath pictures!) Alfie Alfredo and Christopher Chutney. Merry Christmas!
Throw Back Thursday, from 2023. From left: Shelby, Drum, Clairee and Ouiser. Merry Christmas!
Throw Back Thursday: Fritter, from 2020. Merry Christmas!
Throw Back Thursday: Patty Pepper and Charlie Peppers, from 2011 Merry Christmas and good night innernets!
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Previously
2024: Electric blanket’s on, if you hadn’t guessed.
2023: He eventually took a snooze.
2022: Saul, Nacho and Francesca keep my artwork safe and warm.
2021: No entry.
2020: No entry.
2019: Li’l smile.
2018: I got Solenoid, Clutch and Axle up there, and about the time Axle started flossing with the wire, I realized it wasn’t going to work.
2017: Joe Bob.
2016: Boxing Day.
2015: No entry.
2014: Boxing Day!
2013: “Little kitten, whose name I do not remember, watch carefully. This is my kitten slappin’ paw, and it’s meant for YOU, so I’m cleaning it up.”
2012: She’s one clean little monkey.
2011: Outtakes from the Christmas Day picture shoot.
2010: No entry.
2009: I know the Wonka girls had to be sound asleep when that Cookie crawled into the bed, because I’m fairly certain there’s no way they would have put up with THAT if they were awake.
2008: No entry.
2007: Sleeping Punki Pie.
2006: No entry.
2005: Mister Boogers likes to live dangerously.
Is it just the angle, or are Fizz’s ears really that big?
Here’s hoping they finish getting better soon.
I think the Nightcaps is a great group name!
thank you for the “Throwback” views. Really enjoyed the memories.
It didn’t seem right to say this in the comments to the post about sweet Martini, and then it was Christmas, but now I’ll say it. Rum, with the forever purr, the social first to greet people at the door thing, the loving to be pet and snuggled, and the being a goofball clown? Is a Labrador kitty! <3 I love labby cats. I am *delighted* every time I meet one.
Seriously, so very glad this whole crew are improving from the URI crud. The snuffly sneezies are zero fun for anyone, human, feline, or whoever.