Great job with these kittens! So adorable. Your kindle is about five weeks ahead of my kindle. I’m so glad you’re keeping Cupcake. She’s adorable. Hubby doesn’t know it yet, but I think one of ours will be held back too. Not sure which one. How did you pick?
7 Likes
Oh gosh, it was so hard. I would keep them all in a heartbeat, but I have an old lady cat who requires things in her house to be Just So. Having 8 cats in the house would be too much for her.
Part of the selection process was just a matter of who was left. The two tuxies had homes almost immediately. One is a doppelganger of my sister’s belated cat (hence Winston Jr as a nickname) so my sister was immediately endeared to her. The other tux Momma’s Boy is so outgoing and sweet she was just nabbed up immediately. B.T and Cupcake are less outgoing; Cupcake wants to be cuddled and coddled but only by those she knows. B.T wants to be left alone to do her own thing but when she’s tired expects there to be a spot reserved in someone’s lap just for her. B.T’s home fell through so it’s actually looking like I’ll be keeping two…
Now, rehoming four is a lot easier than the amount you have – what are you up to now, sixteen kittens? Is it more than that?!
8 Likes
That is such a sweet picture of two tired kittens. 
5 Likes
- Two have homes already (yay!)
7 Likes
Hopefully little girl is doing better tonight. No poo- for a day isn’t unusual. Just like people, anesthesia slows things down a bit.
Coming home from vets, they smell different. That should pass soon. Mine all hissed when I got long haired sisters shaved. They even hated ea other for a couple of days.
4 Likes
I have 4 cats and their annual vet appointments are spaced out to 3 different visits. Whenever anyone goes to the vet, the others hiss at them when they come home. 
4 Likes
That actually might be for the best. B.T. and Cupcake can take all their young cat hijinks out on each other and not bother little old lady cat.
(What’s her name, BTW? I feel a little bad calling her “little old lady cat.”) 
6 Likes
Guess who is back…?
A blurry photo of Cupcake climbing up my leg when I got home last night! She’s feeling much better.
@Fiesta01 The old lady has the distinguished name of ‘Happycat’ – because she has had RBF from the day we got her. This is her in her happy place, the porch we converted to a catio (it was a WIP at the time of this photo) – and even at her happiest, she looks mad!
23 Likes
You have a catio? Do you have any pictures? We’re seriously considering making one.
2 Likes
Sort of. We live on the second floor of an apartment unit. I bought hardware cloth (pictured) and wrapped it around the fencing/perimeter of the porch. I bought a narrow baby gate for the entrance and wrapped that in cloth too. It is not fully cat proof as it has no roof - an athletic cat could feasibly climb up onto the railing and get out that way if it was determined. HC is not athletic or determined. She is more interested in sunbathing, but she and the other cats only get run of the catio when I am watching. Franklin has tried more than once to give me the slip.
If you are looking for ideas, if you have a porch, wrap it in hardware cloth or chicken wire. I used zip-ties because at the time we didn’t own this unit and I wanted it to be easily removed. You can place posts on each of the four corners of the porch, and then place 2x4s (or additional posts) across the top to make a totally screened in porch. This was very backyardigan and cost me all of $75 in supplies. If I wanted it to look nice I’d probably need to spend more.
My neighbors have a DIY catio that looks like this - totally something anyone could make:
Franklin and Blossom on the catio:
It’s a win/win for me, I get to spend some time outdoors doing some ‘gardening’, and the cats get some safe enrichment without risk to wildlife or themselves.
17 Likes
She’s beautiful! When a kitty is that pretty, of course she has to have a little bit of attitude. Thanks for sharing!
3 Likes
Ex-DH had his porch enclosed, also. His two cats love it. He currently cracks the sliding door so they can go in and out but has plans to get a door with a fixed piece in which a small doggy door can be installed for 24-hour choice.
9 Likes
A friend’s son built a huge chain link room on the side of his house. The cats had a kitty door to the basement, then another kitty door was in the window from the basement to the chain link room. It had a chain link top on it, and a sun shield on top over the chain link. His only mistake was he didn’t have the fence builders put a latchable human door on the side, so when he needed to clean, or set up something, he had to crawl through the window. Retrofitting a human gate would have taken a lot of money, and time, plus the cats couldn’t go outside for days, so he just didn’t put it in.
A neighbor I had lived next to people who never let their cats inside, and bragged their dog had barely been to the vet, but the cats never went. He didn’t want them anywhere touching his cats. There was a side porch, that once had screens, but had think plywood, but still had the 2 x 4 supports that had once held screens. He ripped down the awful plywood, and put two layers of heavy screens, one on the outside of the 2 x 4 and the second layer on the inside. That way his cats could use the kitty door for the big porch, but never come in contact with the neighbor’s unvaccinated cats. That worked very well.
4 Likes
Well, two kittens went to their forever homes today. It was so hard to say goodbye!! My sister’s coworker came to pick up “Momma’s Boy” (who is really a girl) — but Winston Jr stole the show. She went home with both of them. I’m so happy they are adopted in a pair but so sad to see them go. I kept reminding myself “goodbye is the goal”.
They were great kittens, and the best snugglers. The house has been so quiet since they left. I think they will be very loved in their new home.
Some photos before Winston Jr and Momma’s Boy left:
IMG_1893
27 Likes
Oh they are so cute, but the. pic of one of the tuxedos on your shoulder! I know the goal is adoption but still, so tough
5 Likes
sigh goodbye Mommas boy and Winston Jr. Safe travels my friends!
6 Likes
How short a time it’s been, and how much we’ve come to love these little kitties! Jingles to you, @beowulf, and thanks for posting all the pictures of their Baby Book.
Best wishes to Winston Jr. and Momma’s Boy in their new home. They truly are Pusses in Boots heading off on new adventures.
Hugs and purrs.
5 Likes
Do their new families know they are internet celebrities and have a fan club?
9 Likes
