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Pumpernickel and Ciabatta, enjoying the frog bed.
And yep, they’re still climbing in on and around the crate.
Ciabatta and Babka get their chatter on. This is the chattering-est bunch of kittens!
Crouton’s all “I’ve got it! I’ve got it!” (Spoiler: she didn’t get it, but it was a good try!)
Pumpernickel’s ready for the Churu, please and thank you.
Babka in the heart basket with the stuffy. I think it’s safe to say that Babka’s got your heart.
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Say hello to our newest foster, Meander.
She is hanging out in what I call my “office”, but we all know darn well should be called the “nursery.”
She tends to photograph as all gray, but she’s a dilute tortie – you can see patches of peachy-pink in her fur.
And yes, she is pregnant. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised to wake up this morning (you know I’m still asleep when these posts auto-post, right?) to find kittens. Her belly was pretty active yesterday.
I had originally been planning to get her Monday (she was at Michelle’s house), but Brittany said “You might want to get her sooner, I don’t think she’s got long to go.” Michelle said that judging by her teeth she’s no more than 18 months old, so we’re calling her 18 months old.
She has very clearly been around people before, so she was either dumped or someone moved and left her behind. She showed up in an area where someone was feeding stray cats, then started showing up multiple times a day. They didn’t even have to trap her – the lady was able to pick her up and put her into a carrier.
She is very, very sweet and more than little nervous, though she’s already relaxed a lot since I brought her home. She very much likes the cat tree and the window bed, she spends most of her time there. She’s checked out the crate a few times but hasn’t spent significant time in there. She loves to be petted and likes to be brushed (she’s shedding a lot), and I am looking forward to getting to know her.
The list of potential names for her kittens: Mosey, Lollygag, Wander, Saunter, Skitter, Scamper, Skedaddle, Trip, Bolt, Swagger and Skip. I was going to call them “The Movers,” but Brittany suggested “The Hopalong Gang,” and I like that better, so that’s what I’m going with!
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Alice is like “REALLY. MORE kittens? That’s what you think we need?”
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr) yesterday.
Goooooood morning, kittens! Top: Pita, Babka & Ciabatta. Bottom: Pumpernickel & Crouton.
Back in 2013 (!) we fostered Khaleesi, a pregnant calitabby. She gave birth to four kittens and while she was in the middle of birthing her own kittens, a little orphan (Norbert) joined her. I kind of slid Norbie in and among her kittens while she wasn’t paying attention, and I like to think that, all these years later, she still wakes up in the middle of the night and wonders where he came from. (You can read the entry about that right here!)
This is is what she looks like these days, right after jumping on her sister Lily. She looks like she’s saying “Who, me? I’d never and I resent the accusation.”
(Thanks, Alton!)
YouTube link
3 1/2 minutes of the kittens playing. These kittens play like WILD things, I’m telling you.
In case you missed it on the blog this morning, Crumpet is now at Petsmart. If you’re interested in adopting her, drop an email to Forgotten Felines of Huntsville at info (at) ffhsv.org to inquire. (I will keep y’all updated on her.)
The kittens don’t seem to have even noticed she’s gone.
YouTube link
Chatterbugs!
Ciabatta is just the SWEETEST little guy.
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Previously
2023: No entry.
2022: No entry.
2021: It’s a Canasta-and-Rummy pie! My favorite.
2020: Carmelita has found it best to keep an eye on me.
2019: This is a very thinky bunch of kittens.
2018: (I find it very rude that they continued to grow while I was gone.)
2017: Hissy little muffin.
2016: No entry.
2015: Belushi under a blanket of his brudders.
2014: “It’s the ears. No one can resist their fabulousness.”
2013: “‘SCUSE me, am trying to eat here. Please go ‘way.”
2012: Kittens: Nature’s Medicine.
2011: No entry.
2010: The Bookworms.
2009: JUST STOMP ON MY HEART, BEULAH, YOU HEARTLESS BRAT.
2008: Tommy and Sugarbutt: brudderly love.
2007: Newt finds it important to keep an eye on the chickens. For protection purposes, of course.
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
Welcome, Meander! You just hit the jackpot, arrived in heaven, and will live to tell about it!
Meander is gorgeous! She’ll have a wonderful little babies. The Hopalong Gang is a great group name and the individual ones are cute too!
Meander is BEAUTIFUL and what a FUN set of names. You really have to use “Skitter” for one of them because it’s so perfectly on the nose for a kitten. 🙂 So Fred dropped his objections to multiple litters in the house? 😉
Of course Meander has relaxed a lot since you brought her to your home! Who wouldn’t?! She and her babies are so blessed and lucky to have ended up in your wonderful care!
First, all the pets to Crumpet the lovebug! May her people come along and say ‘we’re looking for a sweet kitty to love,’ and may she be purring and soaking up scritches in her forever home ASAP!
Second, oh my goodness, hello, Meander! Dilute torties are wonderful, and you know I have to say it – torties forever! A friend of mine raises toy rat terriers, and she actually used many of the names on your potential list for a litter of puppies; Swagger, Mosey (she kept him), Saunter and Sachet. The litter name was Walk This Way, which I personally just love love love.
Khaleesi! Greetings, mother of dragons!
LOL at “Walk This Way”–I’d never be able to just SAY that, I’d have to sing it ala Run DMC + Aerosmith every. single. time.
Also, Chanter, I know you can’t properly see the pictures, and since you’re a big fan of the torties and Meander is SUCH a gorgeous girl, I want to try and describe her for you in more detail. She is definitely a dilute tortie, like Robyn said, but she’s one of the most interestingly patterned ones I’ve ever seen. She has amazing eyes, to start with–it’s hard to tell exactly what color they are from the lighting in this set of pics, but they look to me like they’re just on the edge of gold into green, maybe a little more towards the gold side. She also looks very much like a “normal” gray tabby at first glance; she has the dark M on her forehead and a little bit of pale, almost-white fur around her nose (which is terra-cotta orange in color) and across her whisker pads, around her mouth, and down onto her chin. The rest of her is covered in PERFECTLY spaced dark gray tabby stripes on a lighter gray background–head, back, sides, legs, tail, the whole nine yards–and then the peachy pink color is streaked through the gray like cinnamon swirl bread, or a caramel ribbon through ice cream. BEAUTIFUL kitty, and I bet her kittens will be stunners, too!
And I’m already giggling over the naming theme, that is 100% awesome, going to be fun to see which ones off the list get chosen once the little ones make their appearance!
That’s a great litter name!
Poor Alice – hahaha
Meander is a great name
Mother of dragons! What a story, what a loving mother.
Thank you Alton!
Overlapping kittens! How exciting! And I love Meander’s name and the ideas for the kitten names, especially Mosey and Lollygag, two words my family uses all the time.. Also, you should link to the Khaleesi/Norbert story for the newbies here — one of my favorites.
I’m already in love with Meander. Love the kitten name choices. I love scamper. I hope Crumpet won’t have to stay at PetSmart long.
I had two cat sisters, one a tortie and the other a dilute tortie. Their names were Skippy and Scooter. I would also like to know if the Crumbs are the most jumping kitties you have fostered?
Aww, Pita in “Pita checking out the sights” – SWOON. That face!
Hi, sweet Meander!
Oooh I had a litter — only litter ever born at my house — that I named Saunter, Swagger, Skitter, Scamper, and Sashay. They were a joy to have.