Marblecake has four four-week-old kittens. Like the previous lot,
none of them look like Splodge could be the father: Ollie (pale
ginger stripey male), Pip (tuxedo male), Polly (grey-and-white
stripey female with a regular red/white/black tabby head) and
Courtney (a bizarre in-between tabby/tortie, like she's wearing
camo fatigues with orange stripey stockings and white underwear).
Pip is the only fully shorthaired one, the others all have some
longish guard hair (is that what you call it?) but aren't properly
long-haired, whereas Splodge is. And none of them have his stumpy
legs or Persian face.

Doesn't stop them treating Splodge as Daddy, though. After first
trying him out as a milk bar they figured out that wasn't going to
work. So Courtney has been trying a different tack. She just went
up to him and tried to wash his chin, whereupon he groomed her ears
for a bit. Then she rolled over on her back beside him showing off
her tummy and purring (I didn't know kittens could purr that young).

Splodge seems besotted. If she was human she'd have got Daddy to
buy her a pink iPod by now.

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