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Khinkali says “Outta my way, Tortellini!”
“I’m comin’ down!”
Calliope using the mirrors to keep an eye on me is KILLLING ME. She does it all the time.
Tortellini’s trying to pull herself up onto the curvy shelf…
Pierogi says “Here, let me put your entire head in my mouth and pull you up!”
Tortellini dropped to the couch (which was just off-camera in the previous picture) and went along her way, leaving Pierogi and Momos to wonder “What just happened?”
Tortellini had places to be. (Yes, she stuck the landing. There’s a piece of carpet glued to the top of the cube, so she did NOT skid across it.)
Khinkali also had places to be (and she also stuck the landing.)
Calliope’s looking at me as if to say “WHERE did all these ding dang kittens COME from, anyway?!”
Then she flopped down to ponder that very question.
On Saturday, I vacuumed the kitten room. This is the second time the kittens have met the vacuum cleaner, and they were not any less surprised when I turned it on than they were the first time.
(The vacuum is a Shark Navigator NV370 LiftAway. I’ve had it about 10 years, and you can have it when you pry it out of my cold dead hands. I spent years being disappointed by Dysons, and I ain’t going back.)
Calliope said “Come, children. This cat tree is an island, and the loud beast cannot get us here.” And there they stayed, even when I vacuumed (slowly, so they could run away if they wanted) right up to the tree.
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Khal, with attitude.
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Posted on social media (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Tumblr/ Bluesky/Threads) this weekend.
If you missed it on the blog this morning, we have a new foster. Meet Calliope, who is about three years old. (That’s Wonton in the bed below her.) She showed up in a feral colony and needed saving, so came to Forgotten Felines. I told Michelle that if she could get along with the kittens, she could share the foster room with them, and they’re getting along just fine. (She is pregnant, and I am hoping that the Dumpling Gang kittens start moving home before she gives birth!)
Momos is baffled that she’s still available for adoption.
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The kittens have a new roommate! 3 year old Calliope joined them recently (she is not related to them, and is NOT their mother, though she sure looks like she could be.) She showed up at a feral colony in Huntsville and I told Michelle that if she could get along with the kittens, she could join them in the foster room. They get along fine, so here we are. She is extremely sweet!
Pierogi strikes a pose.
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We’re sitting on the couch watching Pierogi and Tortellini playing. Where’s everyone else? In my lap, obviously (or next to my lap. My lap is only so big!)
Tortellini is thinkin’ it must be just about Churu time, no? Yes!
Good night innernets. (Tortellini, Khinkali & Bao, who do not look particularly sleepy, and Wonton who is already snoozing.)
Wonton has a skeptical.
🎉 Former foster Chanterelle (who was only with us for a few days before she went to another foster – and then came back here for a few hours before she went home last Thursday) has settled in very nicely! Look at that content little face. ❤️ Big brother Jasper isn’t entirely sure about her – but it’s early days yet! (Thanks, Leah!)
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Permanent resident Magoo (formerly foster Reverb) is doing well. He’s a permanent resident now, so you won’t see him as often as the fosters – that’s how it’s always been with the permanent residents, though if you read the blog you’ll see him at least once a week (probably more.)
It’s one month until the end of his post-FIP treatment observation period, and he’s doing great.
He’s fit in with Charlie and Khal like he’s always been here – he and Khal are especially good friends – in the first segment of this video, you see a half-hearted, no-contact “tussle” (more of a face-down, I guess), in the second segment Magoo is playing with Khal’s track toy (he swears Khal said he could) and in the last segment he’s following Khal around, learning how to properly patrol the back yard.
(We have a cat fence – search on “Purrfect Fence” – around the back yard, and let the cats into the back yard during the day. At night we close them into the screened porch/house.)
🎉 Former foster Maggie (from 2011, who came to us pregnant and then had SIX kittens!) is doing great.
Alex says: “Maggie continues to be healthy and well. He adopted nephews terrorize each other but leave Maggie alone. In fact, Pack, our biggest ginger & white cat, is Maggie’s constant snuggler. She is still my lap cat; though I don’t work from home anymore. We both had to adjust to the separation. It’s starting to get warm here in Wisconsin, so Maggie gets quite a bit of outside time, and we can tell she still has a hunter’s instinct whenever there is a chipmunk around. Nothing caught this year so far, but the season is young and there are plenty of critters to be found. So yeah, I love my Maggie dearly and am grateful that she is in my life even though she only expresses her love through looks of apathy and disinterest. She’s a great cat who continues to have a great life.”
That girl’s face just cracks me up. I love seeing her so healthy and happy! (Thanks, Alex!)
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Tossing toys for the kittens – Tortellini, especially, is having a blast! Calliope doesn’t take part in the toy-chasing, but she’s present in this video if you listen – she’s purring in my lap. (She really likes it when the kittens are off playing and she doesn’t have to share my lap.)
Pierogi and the guilty little face.
Good night innernets. (Calliope)
Calliope said “Psst! Kid! Tell her we’re still starving!” and Bao ran over yelling “WE IS STILL STARVING!” while Tortellini and Momos flirted with the ceiling fan.
Khinkali caught this snake, and now she’s gonna bunny kick it ’til it screams for mercy. You gots a problem with that?
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This video is from (I think) the second day after I brought Calliope home. She doesn’t hiss at them any more if they get annoying, she just pretends they aren’t there (or in extreme cases she gets up and finds a quiet spot away from them.)
I was sitting on the couch and looked up, and Pierogi was just sitting up there with his head hanging over the side of the bed, pondering the mystery that is me.
Was there a feather teaser up there, ya think?
Good night innernets. (Momos (top) and Wonton)
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Previously
2025: No entry.
2024: No entry.
2023: Obviously I made too much of a fuss over Myrtle’s tilty-head poses, so Zelda has picked it up.
2022: A vital part of training here at the Love & Hisses Kitten Academy is teaching them to be good napping companions.
2021: Uno loves the smell of toebeans in the morning.
2020: In a shocking coincidence, Bunny realized that AT THAT VERY MOMENT she had a pressing appointment, so she jumped the NOPE train to NOPESville, checked into the NOPES Motel, was the keynope speaker at the annual NOPE Conference and is preparing her TED talk on the subject of “Nope, Nope, and also NOPE.”
2019: No entry.
2018: “Holy cow, where’d all those toes come from?!”
2017: Someone’s been checking out the litter box, and he’s not sure what he thinks.
2016: “I can be on two levels at once!”
2015: Carlin’s story & what Lucy thinks about it all.
2014: No entry.
2013: Aslan’s all “You see what I put up with, here?”
2012: Rupert says hi.
2011: That look on her face epitomizes ::SIGH::, doesn’t it?
2010: Reacher and Bolitar: Brudderly Love.
2009: No entry.
2008: No entry.
2007: No entry.
2006: No entry.
2005: We have officially named the kittens.