Gasp! My father has a kitten!

What a great story, Mark -- please keep us posted on Lucy's progress and
give your Dad our best purrs.
Christine and Omar, Oreo, Midnight, Robin & Tucker
"Mark Edwards" wrote in message
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My father has a kitten!

This is shock because:

My father has a blind poodle who hates cats (Mozart).
My father has a Pekipoo (Angel).
My father has a LARGE dog in the back yard (Muffin - really).
My father has never been interested in cats.

The kitten started out being abandoned by its mother on a neighbor's
property. The neighbor threw the nearly-newborn kitten over the fence
into my dad's back yard. Muffin picked the kitten up and brought it to
my dad, licking her chops the whole time that my dad examined the
kitten, who didn't even have her eyes open yet.

Well, my dad bathed the kitten, took it to the vet, bought
abandoned-kitten supplies at PetSmart, and named her Lucy.

Lucy is now three months old, and is a very beautiful, very spoiled
calico girl. She and Angel think they are sisters. Mozart pretty much
ignores Lucy, but doesn't care for her. Muffin stays outdoors.

Lucy has been given all her shots, has a pretty little red collar with
rhinestones on it to match her princess status (grin), and already has
scads of toys. My dad has even bought a "How to Raise Cats" book (boy,
won't he be surprised - evil grin), when he finds that cats raise us.

He asked me "Did you ever see me having a cat?" (No, I didn't). And he
tells me that he has never had a cat as a pet (he is almost 70).

I didn't take my camera, but I will on Christmas. Here is my best
description:

Lucy is a three-month old calico girl kitty with mainly white fur,
overlaid with black and orange (mostly on her back and rump). She has
a patch of striped orange under one front leg, and her tail is sort of
banded with black, orange and white. She is a short hair, with
incredibly soft fur, and incredibly sharp teeth and claws (and fits
the homicidal muffin description perfectly - grin). She has a very
kissable, but well-protected (by teeth and claws - grin) tummy.

Every now and then, she walks up to my dad, jumps or climbs on his
lap, puts her front paws on his chest, then leans her head forward for
a kiss, after which she will curl up close by and nap.

She follows my dad everywhere he goes, listens closely to everything
he tells her, and picks things up very quickly. It is obvious that she
adores my dad, and that he adores her.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 04:52:41 -0500, Takayuki
yodeled:

Mark Edwards wrote:

She follows my dad everywhere he goes, listens closely to everything
he tells her, and picks things up very quickly. It is obvious that she
adores my dad, and that he adores her.

How cute, a kitten that listens! She sounds like she has especially
strong enslavement powers.

I always find it funny when a cat or kitten obviously finds us an
object of fascination or curiosity. Stinky still follows me
around and listens to me, but I don't think he finds me as
fascinating as he used to. When he first got here, he was
enthralled with everything I did-- especially if it was in the
bathroom.



Theresa
Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh
My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com

Takayuki wrote:
Tanada wrote:


Isn't it funny when a formerly non-cat person becomes one of the owned?
My FIL was so funny when they visited us after Rob's operation. He'd
be in the bathroom shaving and Pine Cone would be sitting on the
bathroom counter watching FIL put lather on his face and scrape it off.
Pine Cone thought that it was SO fascinating that one would try to get
rid of the face fur, let alone do it by putting stuff on your face.
Rob, incidentally, uses an electric razor.


So what did your FIL think about Pine Cone's fascination with his
shaving?


Mr. Animals are a waste of time, was totally charmed that Pine Cone
thought he was interesting. He also found it amusing that Merlin
insisted on sleeping on their bed and in their suitcases.

Pam S.

In article , Mark Edwards
wrote:


She follows my dad everywhere he goes, listens closely to everything
he tells her, and picks things up very quickly. It is obvious that she
adores my dad, and that he adores her.


Hugs and Purrs,

Maybe being a cat-whiperer is genetic. When I saw the header I thought your dad
had given birth to a kitten.
Suz
Macmoosette
=^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^= =^..^=

"People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life."
--Faith Resnick



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She follows my dad everywhere he goes, listens closely to everything
he tells her, and picks things up very quickly. It is obvious that she
adores my dad, and that he adores her.


Well sure. Your dad is her MomDad, as far as she's concerned.
Congratulations on your sibling

(THere's something about little kittens that makes them so
non-threatening to dogs, older cats and even non-catpeople
hoomins....)

--Fil

Mark Edwards wrote:
snip great story
She follows my dad everywhere he goes, listens closely to everything
he tells her, and picks things up very quickly. It is obvious that she
adores my dad, and that he adores her.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

It just goes to show, it's never too late to be owned by a cat. Thanks
for a great story.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

What a lovely story Mark and how sweet is your Dad!
when he's never had a kitten to do all that, I bet he'll wish
now that he'd never missed out so many years of a cats love
how can people be so cruel as to do such a thing to such
a tiny little baby, they need a good kick up the backside
Cheers to your Dad, Lucy's hero. Jean.P.

Mark Edwards wrote in message
...

My father has a kitten!

This is shock because:

My father has a blind poodle who hates cats (Mozart).
My father has a Pekipoo (Angel).
My father has a LARGE dog in the back yard (Muffin - really).
My father has never been interested in cats.

The kitten started out being abandoned by its mother on a neighbor's
property. The neighbor threw the nearly-newborn kitten over the fence
into my dad's back yard. Muffin picked the kitten up and brought it to
my dad, licking her chops the whole time that my dad examined the
kitten, who didn't even have her eyes open yet.

Well, my dad bathed the kitten, took it to the vet, bought
abandoned-kitten supplies at PetSmart, and named her Lucy.

Lucy is now three months old, and is a very beautiful, very spoiled
calico girl. She and Angel think they are sisters. Mozart pretty much
ignores Lucy, but doesn't care for her. Muffin stays outdoors.

Lucy has been given all her shots, has a pretty little red collar with
rhinestones on it to match her princess status (grin), and already has
scads of toys. My dad has even bought a "How to Raise Cats" book (boy,
won't he be surprised - evil grin), when he finds that cats raise us.

He asked me "Did you ever see me having a cat?" (No, I didn't). And he
tells me that he has never had a cat as a pet (he is almost 70).

I didn't take my camera, but I will on Christmas. Here is my best
description:

Lucy is a three-month old calico girl kitty with mainly white fur,
overlaid with black and orange (mostly on her back and rump). She has
a patch of striped orange under one front leg, and her tail is sort of
banded with black, orange and white. She is a short hair, with
incredibly soft fur, and incredibly sharp teeth and claws (and fits
the homicidal muffin description perfectly - grin). She has a very
kissable, but well-protected (by teeth and claws - grin) tummy.

Every now and then, she walks up to my dad, jumps or climbs on his
lap, puts her front paws on his chest, then leans her head forward for
a kiss, after which she will curl up close by and nap.

She follows my dad everywhere he goes, listens closely to everything
he tells her, and picks things up very quickly. It is obvious that she
adores my dad, and that he adores her.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark

No cluons were harmed when Karen Chuplis ! wrote:

[snips]

Oh my gosh how adorable IS that! He did really well to get a healthy
3 month
old out of a newborn. That is NOT easy!! I can't wait for pics.

He told me how he didn't expect her to survive, but he fed her kitten
formula from a bottle "every four hours," in his words.

There are a lot of reasons that my dad is my hero, but this one is
near the top.


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark
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I wrote:

She follows my dad everywhere he goes, listens closely to everything
he tells her, and picks things up very quickly. It is obvious that
she
adores my dad, and that he adores her.

No cluons were harmed when Takayuki ! wrote:
How cute, a kitten that listens! She sounds like she has especially
strong enslavement powers.

Well, I won't say that she acts on what he says, but she is very
attentive when he speaks to her (grin).


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark
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No cluons were harmed when dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers! wrote:
My father has a kitten!

*excellent*

Now, when will he become a regular here with tales of Lucy???

Cheers, helen s ;-)

I think it's safer if we don't hold our breath (big grin).


Hugs and Purrs,
Mark
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