Kitten update!
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Mama cat has now moved them into my mother's closet. Which is enormous, really, as closets go.
It occurs to me that frequent moves by mama cats may not just be evolutionarily justified as evading predators. Given that fleas typically live on bedding and only a few are on the cat at any given time, might moving kittens frequently also help keep down parasites?
At any rate, the cats are now easily visible. And boy, it's adorable! Now when you look at them, they're sometimes doing things other than sleeping and eating. Mostly this means they're "quiet alert", resting with their eyes open, but you can also occasionally catch them toddling around or trying out this whole "play" concept with each other.
And they have already their own little personalities! Out of the calicos we've got "more screamingly-est girl" and "less screamingly-est girl", as Ana has dubbed them. The first one, upon seeing me today (and I was several feet away!) immediately started spitting and hitting in a way that, I assure you, would've been simply terrifying if not for the fact that these sounds were coming from an adorable little fluffball with no teeth. The other one, by contrast, reacted to me outright touching her by yawning and rolling onto her back. Not that she likes humans yet, she just isn't terrified. One of the orange ones toddled over and sniffed my hand intently, another one ("the quiet one", who is both quiet and docile) turned and watched closely. And the last found its mom, of course. Any time is milk time!
It's going to be hard to give them away. (I mean that literally. I've been trying to line up homes for them since before they were born, and no luck yet! If I have to bring a box around to a school right before Christmas, so help me, I'm gonna be annoyed. (And I won't do it, either. That's good timing for parents, bad timing for pets. No, my plan is, if push comes to shove, to sneak them into a friend's home. She has three cats, two dogs, several fish, three children (one of whom a toddler!), a husband, a mother, and possibly some rodents all crammed into a two bedroom apartment with a galley kitchen. She'll never even notice five new kittens!)
It occurs to me that frequent moves by mama cats may not just be evolutionarily justified as evading predators. Given that fleas typically live on bedding and only a few are on the cat at any given time, might moving kittens frequently also help keep down parasites?
At any rate, the cats are now easily visible. And boy, it's adorable! Now when you look at them, they're sometimes doing things other than sleeping and eating. Mostly this means they're "quiet alert", resting with their eyes open, but you can also occasionally catch them toddling around or trying out this whole "play" concept with each other.
And they have already their own little personalities! Out of the calicos we've got "more screamingly-est girl" and "less screamingly-est girl", as Ana has dubbed them. The first one, upon seeing me today (and I was several feet away!) immediately started spitting and hitting in a way that, I assure you, would've been simply terrifying if not for the fact that these sounds were coming from an adorable little fluffball with no teeth. The other one, by contrast, reacted to me outright touching her by yawning and rolling onto her back. Not that she likes humans yet, she just isn't terrified. One of the orange ones toddled over and sniffed my hand intently, another one ("the quiet one", who is both quiet and docile) turned and watched closely. And the last found its mom, of course. Any time is milk time!
It's going to be hard to give them away. (I mean that literally. I've been trying to line up homes for them since before they were born, and no luck yet! If I have to bring a box around to a school right before Christmas, so help me, I'm gonna be annoyed. (And I won't do it, either. That's good timing for parents, bad timing for pets. No, my plan is, if push comes to shove, to sneak them into a friend's home. She has three cats, two dogs, several fish, three children (one of whom a toddler!), a husband, a mother, and possibly some rodents all crammed into a two bedroom apartment with a galley kitchen. She'll never even notice five new kittens!)
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